https://www.gpibee.com/news/index.html Announcements, firmware releases and other news around GPIBee, the USB & Ethernet to GPIB adapter by XyphroLabs. en Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 generate_news.py https://www.gpibee.com/news/benches.html https://www.gpibee.com/news/benches.html Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 GPIBee V1.6 introduces Benches: build a browser front panel for any GPIB instrument in minutes, without writing software. Switch a supply on from the kitchen table, read a meter from your phone, and give a 1985 instrument the web interface it never had. Benches V1.6 Web interface Remote control No-code https://www.gpibee.com/news/firmware-v1-5-2608231522.html https://www.gpibee.com/news/firmware-v1-5-2608231522.html Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A new firmware build is available. The headline is VXI-11: a conformance test suite written for this project covers 104 rules of the specification, and all of them now pass. Also in this release, a working abort channel, the VXI-11.2 low-level bus commands, and fixes to link locking, instance names and fragmented RPC records. Firmware Release VXI-11 https://www.gpibee.com/news/how-gpibee-is-tested.html https://www.gpibee.com/news/how-gpibee-is-tested.html Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A look at how GPIBee's firmware is verified: a GPIB bus spanning five decades of instruments, regression suites for USBTMC and VXI-11, and a VXI-11 standards compliance suite written from scratch because none existed. Its first run passed 69.4% of its checks. Here is what it found and how that was fixed. Testing Quality VXI-11 USBTMC Firmware https://www.gpibee.com/news/quick-take-raw-tcp-socket.html https://www.gpibee.com/news/quick-take-raw-tcp-socket.html Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Someone asked on YouTube whether GPIBee can be used like the raw TCP socket that many instruments expose on port 5025. It can. Here is the short answer, and the one thing that is different because GPIBee is a gateway. Quick take Protocols ++protocol