DMMEasyControl Software Guide

Install Driver
1. Before start DMMEasyControl, please download and install the driver from
NIVISA:
Open http://www.ni.com, search "NI-VISA", click the link of NI-VISA Download.
In the download page, select the supported OS and version (the recommended
version is 15.0.1), and then download the driver.
A warning information will pop out if you didn’t install this driver before start.
2. Right click [Computer], you can find it on the desktop, or in [Start] menu. In the
drop-down menu, click on [Manage], the “Computer Management” window
opens.

Click on “Device Manager” on the left hand side. On the right hand side, double
click on “USB Test and Measurement Devices”.

If "USB Test and Measurement Devices (IVI)" is displayed, that means the driver
is installed successfully.
3. If "USB Test and Measurement Devices (IVI)" is not displayed, follow the steps
below to install the driver manually.

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Right click the unknown device icon, in the drop down menu, click "Update
Driver Software...".

Select "Browse my computer for driver software".

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Select a directory path for the driver, and click "Next".

Click "Next".

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 After installing successfully, click "Close".
In Device Manager, check if "USB Test and Measurement Devices (IVI)" is
displayed under USB Test and Measurement Devices.

Install Software
Install DMMEasyControl.

How to Connect
The desktop multimeter can communicate with the computer through its own
interface, which is USB, LAN or COM interface .

Connect by USB (Only for 5½,4½)

1. Start DMMEasyControl.
2. Connection：Use USB cable to connect the bench multimeter USB port with PC
USB port.
3. Connection Setting： Click Control on left-top side of software menu bar, select
Connect on list.

4. Select Via USB and choose the corresponding serial number on

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 How to check serial number in bench multimeter：Press on multimeter
front panel, select Next, select System Info, the serial number (Sernum) will
display on screen.

Connect by LAN (Only for 5½,4½)

1. Connection：Use LAN cable to connect the bench multimeter LAN port with PC
LAN port.
2. View the network parameters of the computer.
Click on your Start button, and then hitting Run, and type in CMD in the box and
hit Enter to bring up your command prompt.

Type in IPCONFIG after the new prompt that is opened in the Dos window. This
will bring up the network information on your system.

IP Address
Subnet Mask
Gateway

3. Set the network parameters of the multimeter.

Press the front panel key, press the NET Type softkey to select LAN.
Press the LAN Setting softkey, set the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, port.
IP address: The first three bytes is same as the IP of computer, the last byte

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 should be different. Here, we set it to 192.168.1.99.
Subnet mask and gateway should be the same as the computer.
Set port as "3000".
Restart the multimeter for the parameter changes to take effect.
4. Set the network parameters of the Software.
Start DMMEasyControl. Click Control on left-top side of software menu bar,
select Connect.

Select Via LAN, then set the IP to the same as multimeter. Click OK. (The
software port is 3000 by default, can not be edited.)

Connect by COM (Only for 55000 count)

1. Start DMMEasyControl.
2. Connection：Use VGA cable to connect the bench multimeter COM port with
PC USB or VGA port.
3. Connection Setting： Click Control on left-top side of software menu
bar, select Connect on list.

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 4. Select Via COM, and choose the corresponding serial number on the
list(Select the port with the suffix DMM, as shown in the red box in the
figure below). Click OK.

Default

Select and Configure Measurement

Click measure button in function area to start measure, they are: DC voltage, AC
voltage, DC current, AC current, Frequency, Period, Resistance, Continuity, Diode,
Capacitance and Temperature.

Configure the parameter in parameter setting area.

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Dual Display

After selecting measure subject, click Dual, right side drop down list will show the
supported sub-display subject. Select the sub-display subject and begin dual display
mode.
Note: If Dual is in grey, it means the measure subject doesn’t support dual display.

Dual Display List

Statistics

Click Statistics to start the function, the result display under the button line, they are：
Sample amount, Maximum value, Minimum Value, Average value.
Note: If Statistics is in grey, it means the measure subject doesn’t support statistics
mode.

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Limit Value Mathematics

Click Limit to start this function. Set the high and low limit value in parameter area.
Limit result displays under the button line, they are: Low limit, low limit break times,
limit mathematics status (Pass means the readings don’t exceed the limit, Fail means
exceeding), High limit, High limit break times.
Note: If Limit is in grey, it means the measure subject doesn’t support limit value
mode.

Result

dB/dBm Mathematics

Click Math, select dB or dBm in parameter area to begin mathematics.

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Data Record Function

Data could be saved as XLS format after record.

XLS file format:

V1.4.0

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