R&S ZVL
Remote Control
Remote Control Operation
Operating Manual 1303.6580.32-05
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Combining Manual and Remote Control
Using a remote control script is the quickest and easiest way of performing complicated tasks which need
to be repeated many times. On the other hand, it is often preferable to control a previously configured
measurement manually in order to observe the result on the screen.
The analyzer provides a number of tools for combining manual and remote control:
User Keys
The remote control commands
SYSTem:USER:KEY...
place up to 8 softkeys with arbitrary
functionality on the remote screen. The softkeys replace the default softkeys
Go to Local
and
Display On/Off.
Pressing a user softkey or clicking the corresponding command across the top of the remote
screen executes the assigned functionality.
If you want to use more than 8 user keys, you can easily introduce additional levels: Simply
reserve one key for re-defining the entire user key bar. If you press or click the key, your
remote script should re-assign the labels and functions of the existing keys. If you use this
procedure repeatedly, you can emulate an arbitrary number of manual control features on
your remote screen.
Menu key commands
The commands in the
DISPlay:MENU:KEY...
subsystem open the manual control screen,
activate menus or submenus for manual control, or execute a specified menu command.
DISPlay:MENU:KEY:EXECute '<menu_key>'
can be used in different ways:
If the menu key causes an event (e.g. selection of the measured quantity: S11, S12 etc.),
the function is executed immediately. No further action is required; the instrument remains
in remote control mode.
If the menu key requires a numeric entry (e.g. entry of the sweep range: Start, Stop etc.)
the command opens the numeric entry bar. The instrument is switched back to remote
control mode as soon as the entry has been made manually.
