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DAQview

Our DAQview software is used to view live and recorded data from our data acquisition (DAQ) systems. It supports plotting charts and live numerical readouts, and can perform a range of numerical analysis functions including frequency analysis.

Installation

DAQview runs on modern versions of Windows, Linux, and macOS, although only Ubuntu Linux is officially supported by AEL.

The recommended installation method is to use uv to install the latest version published to PyPI:

uv tool install daqview

To run DAQview after installation, run daqview.

On Linux desktops, complete installation by running daqview --install to add the application to your list of locally-installed applications.

To update to the latest version after installation, run:

uv tool upgrade daqview

Other Python tools such as pipx or pip can also be used, e.g. pipx install daqview.

User manual

Download the user manual here.

File format

DAQview reads the HDF5 files generated by our DAQ system. Details on the file format are available here.