Usb2000 ocean optics driver

Simple download this file and double-click on it in Windows Explorer to begin the installation procedure.

The installer will guide you through the install process. Select the OmniDriver software appropriate for your operating system. The installer wizard guides you through the installation process. See Installing Java for details on how to install the required version of Java.

After OmniDriver and Java have been installed, you should run the OmniDoctor application to verify that everything has been installed successfully. If OmniDriver has not been installed correctly, your OmniDriver applications will not run properly and it may be difficult to diagnose the cause of the failure. However, you must run it in Windows XP Compatibility mode and it must be run in Console mode; you must be logged into an account that has Administrative privileges.

Ensure that you are logged on with administrative privileges. Device is showing in windows device manager as WinUsb oceanoptics device attached screenshot. You can acquire data from the spectrometerand control it. You can perform many tasks, including:. This support package is being removed in Rb. Required Ocean Optics files, such as instrument drivers, need to be installed separately from Ocean Optics. There should be no further things necessary to run the applications. The driver is intended to provide a file tree entry through which the spectrometer functions are carried out via ioctl commands; a list of these commands and their description is in the header file usb The main driver code is the C program usb The driver is only almost complete.

Its main instability is probably connected to disconnection activities while a transfer of data is in progress. I have seen a few kernel oopses when disconnecting the device while running. If you have problems with the group namely, if no group "users" exists , then try to change this by hand. Have a look if you want to understand what the device does. In the apps directory there are two applications: One is a C program with a simple command line option set to take a spectrum with a given exposure time.

It generates normal ASCII text as an output which can be used to feed into gnuplot or something similar. It keeps a few spectrometer parameters in the comments text as well. It does also the translation from pixel into wavelength according to the calibration table in the device EEPROM - assuming I got the translation polynomial right. At the moment, the program allows up to 10 seconds integration time, and operates the device in free-running mode.

It seems reasonably robust.