QSwitch driver with monitor support (#266)

* QSwitch QCodes driver with monitor support

* Make compatible with 3.9

* More robust serial communication

* New API with auto-grounding

docs/examples/QDevil/QDAC2/Chaining.ipynb

@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@
  ],
  "metadata": {
   "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "qcodespip311",
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
    "language": "python",
    "name": "python3"
   },
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.11.0 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Jan 16 2023, 14:12:30) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)]"
+   "version": "3.10.12"
   },
   "nbsphinx": {
    "execute": "never"

docs/examples/QDevil/QSwitch/Debugging.ipynb

@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "c08d6367",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "# QSwitch debugging\n"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 2,
+   "id": "85f2a1e0",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "Connected to: Quantum Machines QSwitch (serial:5, firmware:0.160) in 0.11s\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "import pprint\n",
+    "pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter()\n",
+    "from qcodes_contrib_drivers.drivers.QDevil import QSwitch\n",
+    "qswitch_addr = '192.168.8.18'\n",
+    "qswitch = QSwitch.QSwitch('switch', visalib='@py', address=f'TCPIP::{qswitch_addr}::5025::SOCKET')"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "5c6c00b2",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    " You can record the underlying SCPI commands that are sent to the QSwitch:"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 3,
+   "id": "d0c7fc28",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "qswitch.start_recording_scpi()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 4,
+   "id": "64f0cbe6",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "data": {
+      "text/plain": [
+       "'0,\"No error\"'"
+      ]
+     },
+     "execution_count": 4,
+     "metadata": {},
+     "output_type": "execute_result"
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "qswitch.reset()\n",
+    "qswitch.arrange(\n",
+    "    breakouts={'DMM': 5, 'VNA': 7},\n",
+    "    lines={'plunger': 23, 'sensor': 5})\n",
+    "qswitch.connect('sensor')\n",
+    "qswitch.breakout('sensor', 'DMM')\n",
+    "qswitch.errors()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 5,
+   "id": "0d8a7693",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "['*rst', 'stat?', 'clos (@5!9)', 'open (@5!0)', 'clos (@5!5)', 'all?']\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "pp.pprint(qswitch.get_recorded_scpi_commands())"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "4a00d73e-88e0-439c-9b80-15aaffaf2064",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "If you are connecting via USB, then you need `pyserial` installed."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 6,
+   "id": "37ac76f2",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "data": {
+      "text/plain": [
+       "('ASRL/dev/ttyS0::INSTR', 'ASRL/dev/ttyACM0::INSTR')"
+      ]
+     },
+     "execution_count": 6,
+     "metadata": {},
+     "output_type": "execute_result"
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "import pyvisa\n",
+    "rm = pyvisa.ResourceManager('@py')\n",
+    "rm.list_resources()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "d6bdb22e",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "See https://github.com/QDevil/qdac2-tools for more debugging tools."
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.10.12"
+  },
+  "nbsphinx": {
+   "execute": "never"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 5
+}