Tomorrow I'll get busy with Console Commands
(Putty on my Ubuntu laptop should do the trick)
and will go through more of the Wiki and Files stuff.
PuTTY works, but if your Ubuntu already has Python,
then this script enables interacting directly from bash:
.. after edits for your path and serial port.
By adding to your ~/bash_profile:
ch ()
{
python /path/to/nVcmd.py "$*"
}
Then you can invoke, e.g.:
$ ch help
Commands: help exit info threads version reset freq offset time dac saveconfig clearconfig data dump frequencies port stat gain power sample scan scanraw sweep test touchcal touchtest pause resume cal save recall trace marker edelay capture vbat transform threshold color vbat_offset
$ ch trace
0 LOGMAG CH0 10.000000000 8.000000000
1 LOGMAG CH1 12.000000000 8.000000000
2 SMITH CH0 1.000000000 0.000000000
$ ch marker
1 50 57000
$ ch frequencies > freq
$ ch data 0 | paste freq - > my.s1p
Oristo