2470 High Voltage SourceMeter Instrument Reference Manual
Section 14: TSP command reference
2470-901-01 Rev. A /
May
2019
14-277
Example
tspnet.write(testdevice, "print([[hello]])")
print(tspnet.readavailable(testdevice))
tspnet.clear(testdevice)
print(tspnet.readavailable(testdevice))
Write data to a device, then print how much
is available.
Output:
6.00
Clear data and print how much data is
available again.
Output:
0.00
Also see
(on page 14-277)
(on page 14-282)
(on page 14-287)
tspnet.connect()
This function establishes a network connection with another LAN instrument or device through the LAN interface.
Type
TSP-Link accessible
Affected by
Where saved
Default value
Function
No
Usage
connectionID
= tspnet.connect("
ipAddress
")
connectionID
= tspnet.connect("
ipAddress
",
portNumber
, "
initString
")
connectionID
The connection ID to be used as a handle in all other
tspnet
function calls
ipAddress
IP address to which to connect in a string
portNumber
Port number (default 5025)
initString
Initialization string to send to
ipAddress
Details
This command connects a device to another device through the LAN interface. If the
portNumber
is
23, the interface uses the Telnet protocol and sets appropriate termination characters to
communicate with the device.
If a
portNumber
and
initString
are provided, it is assumed that the remote device is not
TSP-enabled. The 2470 does not perform any extra processing, prompt handling, error handling, or
sending of commands. In addition, the
tspnet.tsp.*
commands cannot be used on devices that
are not TSP-enabled.
If neither a
portNumber
nor an
initString
is provided, the remote device is assumed to be a
Keithley Instruments TSP-enabled device. Depending on the state of the
tspnet.tsp.abortonconnect
attribute, the 2470 sends an
abort
command to the remote device
on connection.
The 2470 also enables TSP prompts on the remote device and event management. The 2470 places
remote errors and events from the TSP-enabled device in its own event queue and prefaces these
events with
Remote Error
, followed by an event description.
Do not manually change either the prompt functionality (
localnode.prompts
) or show events by
changing
localnode.showerrors
or
localnode.showevents
on the remote TSP-enabled
device. If you do this, subsequent
tspnet.tsp.*
commands using the connection may fail.