Launching ProberControl

Graphical User Interface

In order to launch the graphical user interface (GUI), navigate to the prober directory, then run ProberControl.py. The command-prompt will open and you will begin getting reports of instruments being connected. If any instrument fails to connect, you will be notified in the terminal and can use the refresh button in the GUI to reconnect any instrument that has previously failed to connect.

Scripting

You can also choose to run a script that you’ve defined in the config directory. See How to write a measurement script for details on writing the script. In order to run the script, you can execute ProberControl.py with 2 command line arguments. The first is the option -s or --script which are the same, followed by the file name associated with your measurement script in the config directory. In sum, the 2 possible full commands to execute are:

python ProberControl.py --script measurementScript.conf

python ProberControl.py -s measurementScript.conf