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Andrew
Ed,
Unfortunately, this specific measurement would not be possible remotely via programming. While our software does accept SCPI commands (that you could send from Labview or Python) for most functionality, the measurement as configured in the picture above (zero-span channel power) is one of the few that cannot be fully automated.
There are some alternatives,
If you knew exactly what WLAN protocol you were measuring and it was not MIMO, you could use our WLAN measurements to fully capture, demodulate, and report the channel power. All of this is available via SCPI programming. You can determine if your signal would be able to be measured under this measurement mode by browsing our WLAN feature document,
https://productbundlesdemo.kinsta.cloud/content/tech-briefs/802-11b-a-n-ac-ax-wlan-modulation-analysis-in-spike/.
If you were comfortable processing I/Q data, you could use the direct device API to acquire I/Q data, and perform the triggering and channel power measurement yourself. The device APIs are provided in our SDK,
https://productbundlesdemo.kinsta.cloud/software/signal-hound-software-development-kit-sdk/
Our API is primarily C/C++, but we have several examples on how to call our API from Python or Labview.
https://productbundlesdemo.kinsta.cloud/software/signal-hound-instrument-drivers-for-labview/
If you would like to discuss your specific measurement requirements in more depth, consider reaching out to me directly at aj@signalhound.com.
Andrew
