Data Logging 8846A (Fluke 45) on Linux

[Martin Riddle]

Anyone ever come across a data logging app, like the FlukeView Forms,
for Linux?
It needs MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components), so Wine looks like it
will not work.

Thanks
Cheers

 

[SoothSayer]

Anyone ever come across a data logging app, like the FlukeView Forms,
for Linux?
It needs MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components), so Wine looks like it
will not work.

Thanks
Cheers

You cannot be all that Linux centric if you still think that wine is a
solution (or should be or ever was).

There are Windows centric distros out there meant to run only windows
apps.

I cannot imagine that there are no serial data logging apps out there
written for it that do not require the WinLosePonents requisite.

Make blue tooth device and pipe it to your phone, then...

Write "An app for that..."

 

[Martin Riddle]

You cannot be all that Linux centric if you still think that wine is
a
solution (or should be or ever was).

There are Windows centric distros out there meant to run only windows
apps.

I cannot imagine that there are no serial data logging apps out there
written for it that do not require the WinLosePonents requisite.

Make blue tooth device and pipe it to your phone, then...

Write "An app for that..."

Well, that looks like it may be the only solution at this point, 'Write
an App for it'
Luckily Qt has a graph widget, so it may not be time consuming.

Cheers

 

[Martin Riddle]

Well, that looks like it may be the only solution at this point,
'Write an App for it'
Luckily Qt has a graph widget, so it may not be time consuming.

Cheers

After some experimentation, using 'WineTricks' to install JET 4.0 and
MDAC. Wine allowed me to install FlukeView. But there still seems to be
a database problem and a chart graphics problem. I'll have to find some
tools to check if MDAC is operational.

Cheers

 

[Martin Riddle]

After some experimentation, using 'WineTricks' to install JET 4.0 and
MDAC. Wine allowed me to install FlukeView. But there still seems to be
a database problem and a chart graphics problem. I'll have to find some
tools to check if MDAC is operational.

Why not run a real copy of Windows in Virtualbox? You can set it up
to have shared access to part of the Linux filesystem for easy data
sharing.

John

This is an experiment in just using Linux. I'm not sure if the box can run a
VM since there is only 500meg of memory.

Cheers

 

[Nico Coesel]

Why not run a real copy of Windows in Virtualbox? You can set it up
to have shared access to part of the Linux filesystem for easy data
sharing.

That is the most sensible route. In my experience Wine is not working
if Wine wasn't tweaked for the specific application.

This is an experiment in just using Linux. I'm not sure if the box can run a
VM since there is only 500meg of memory.

Memory is cheap these days. Just add more.

 

[Martin Riddle]

That is the most sensible route. In my experience Wine is not working
if Wine wasn't tweaked for the specific application.


Memory is cheap these days. Just add more.

It's an old box with SDram, it's maxed out. Ubuntu works well on it, but
the VM is slow as a snail.

I have a Win7 machine that will run the Fluke stuff. But it would be
great to get the MS Access ODBC running.
Partially there, I now get an error relating to sort order when creating
a mdb file. This I can sort out on my home box.
I see some have gotten it to work under Wine, so there must be something
I fudged while setting it up.

Cheers

 

[Nico Coesel]

It's an old box with SDram, it's maxed out. Ubuntu works well on it, but
the VM is slow as a snail.

I have a Win7 machine that will run the Fluke stuff. But it would be
great to get the MS Access ODBC running.

I managed to get Orcad -more or less- working under Wine. It also
needs the ODBC. IIRC you can download these from Microsoft. There is a
FAQ on these subjects. But I strongly recommend not to invest any time
in Wine. Just get a better computer and use a VM.

 

[Martin Riddle]

I managed to get Orcad -more or less- working under Wine. It also
needs the ODBC. IIRC you can download these from Microsoft. There is a
FAQ on these subjects. But I strongly recommend not to invest any time
in Wine. Just get a better computer and use a VM.

I agree, the last hail Mary yielded the same results. Must be something
missing.
I did get MDAC functioning, and data out of the sample databases. (I
must have
munged something in Wine on the first pass), but Flukeview generates
a 'Could not read data' error and hangs right after displaying the data
and graph.
When I have time I'll use processmon and see what other dll's are
required to run it.


Cheers