vitark / PS-Management

Power Supply Management (PS-Management). GUI Qt-based application for remote control of UNI-T UTP300xC Series Programmable DC Power supplies, using embedded RS232/USB interface.

Power Supply Management

• Power Supply Management
  • Features
  • Getting PS-Management
  • Compiling from source
    • Dependencies
    • Compilation
      • macOS and Linux
      • Windows
    • Supported Hardware
      • Officially supported
      • Not supported, but support can be easily added
  • USB/COM cable and communications issues
    • USB Cable
    • COM with adaptors
  • Screenshots
    • PS-Management running on Windows 10
    • PS-Management running on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
  • Bugs, feature requests, ideas
  • License
  • Stand With Ukraine

Power Supply Management (PS-Management) is a GUI Qt Framework-based application for controlling laboratory power supplies of UNI-T UTP330xC and other devices that use the same SCPI.

PS-Management running on macOS 12.6

Features

• Cross-platform (macOS, Windows, Linux) written in Qt
• Full support of the UNI-T UTP330xC
• Fast UI and reaction with a device, adaptive pooling algorithm
• Ease for adding new capable or similar devices

Getting PS-Management

You can download macOS, Windows (x86 only), and Linux versions from the GitHub releases tab for this project.

Compiling from source

Dependencies

The following dependencies are required to run this software:

• CMake >= 3.4
• One of these Compilers:
  • GCC >= 4.9
  • clang >= 3.4
  • MSVC >= 16 (Visual Studio 2019)
  • MinGW >= 4.9
• Qt >= 5.15 (Qt5Widgets, Qt5Gui, Qt5Core, Qt5Svg, Qt5SerialPort)

Compilation

macOS and Linux

Compiling PS-Management on macOS and Linux using UNIX make files.

# download the source code and change it to the directory
# create a build directory
mkdir build
cd build
# run cmake to create makefiles. Use -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH if cmake doesn't find
# your installation of Qt5 or define ENV export e.g. CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/Users/Qt/5.15.2/clang_64/lib/cmake
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../
# now compile the source code and create the application. You can speed up
make

Windows

You can compile the application on Windows using CMake's Visual Studio Generator.

# create a build directory inside PS-Management source directory
mkdir build
cd build
# Assuming you are using Visual Studio 16 2019 windows installation and Qt 5.15.2 installed to D:\\Qt
# Please change these options so they suit your build environment.

# x64 version
cmake -DQt5_DIR="d:\\Qt\\5.15.2\\msvc2019_64\\lib\\cmake\\Qt5"  ../
cmake --build . --target bundle --config Release

# x86 version 
cmake -DQt5_DIR="d:\\Qt\\5.15.2\\msvc2019_64\\lib\\cmake\\Qt5" -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A Win32  ../
cmake --build . --target bundle --config Release

Supported Hardware

Currently, the application only supports UNI-T devices using the SCPI Protocol. Otherwise, it seems UNI-T devices are rebranded or repacked of Korad KA300xP and based on Korad SCPI Protocol, so Korad devices should to work also or can be accessible to added. Pull Requests for supporting new devices are welcome.

Officially supported:

• UNI-T UTP3303C
• UNI-T UTP3305C

Not supported, but support can be easily added:

• Korad KA3003P; KA3005P; KA3010P
• Korad KA6002P; KA6003P; KA6005P
• Tenma 72-2535; 72-2540 (rebranded KA30XXP)
• Tenma 72-2545; 72-2550 (rebranded KA60XXP)
• Vellemann PS3005D (rebranded KA3005P)

USB/COM cable and communications issues

While developing the application, I tried many different cables, USB, and COM (with adaptors)

USB Cable

Two meters and a longer generic USB2 cable didn't work on my set (Macbook via own USB host). Otherwise, an active USB cable (5m) is working fine. So try to use a USB2 cable as short as possible or an active USB.

COM (with adaptors)

USB-Serial adaptor (ST Lab, USB-Serial-4, based on PL2303) works fine.

Screenshots

PS-Management running on Windows 10

PS-Management running on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Bugs, feature requests, ideas

Please use the github bugtracker to submit bugs or feature requests

License

                    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                     Version 3, 29 June 2007

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
 
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Stand With Ukraine

Additional terms of use for users from Russia and Belarus

By using the code provided in these repositories you agree with the following:

• Russia has illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 and brought the war in Donbas followed by full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
• Russia has brought sorrow and devastations to millions of Ukrainians, killed hundreds of innocent people, damaged thousands of buildings, and forced several million people to flee.
• Putin khuylo!

Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦