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Find your way around the app

A tour of the desktop app in the order you meet it: Home, data sources, Explorer, tabs and panels, the timeline, traces, layouts, and the sidebar views.

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The app

Pick the right panel for each signal

Choose a panel by the shape of the signal: a plot for a value that moves, state bands for a value that holds, a large readout, or a log.

Pause live data, measure a change, and compare two runs

Freeze a live view on one moment, read every panel there, measure a change, then save the run and lay it over an earlier one.

Build a view once and reuse it on every run

Save your panels and tabs as a layout, then load it on any recorded trace to get the same view in one click.

Extensions

Connect your hardware's protocol without writing code

Extensions connect the agent to your bench's interfaces. Install one from the marketplace, configure and start it, and plot its signals live.

Keep extensions running, and find out why one stopped

Read the extension icons, trace a stopped extension to one line in its log, fix the setting and restart it, and update or remove extensions.

Build an extension for your own instrument

Create an agent extension in the app, stream your instrument's readings, run its action, and change the code with a stop and a start.

Build your own tab with live readouts and an action button

An app extension is a web page that opens as a tab in the desktop app. Build one that watches a battery pack's weakest cell and sets its alarm threshold with an action button.

Notebooks

Write your first notebook and chart live signals

A notebook is a markdown file with Python cells. Make one, chart a battery pack's cell voltages from live data, and open the plain file it saves.

Re-run a notebook on a new time window

Change a notebook's time window from the sidebar, run it again with Run all, and re-run only the changed cells with Run out-of-date cells.

Turn a notebook into a pass/fail test

Add rules to a notebook, see every result with the sample that proves it, and make one failing rule fail the whole run.

Publish a notebook your team can read

Publish a notebook with its outputs to Zelos Cloud, add the next version, choose who can open it, and let a teammate read and copy it.

Actions

Run actions on your bench from the app

Find an action in Explorer, run it from an Action panel, watch the plot answer, and read a PASS or FAIL verdict. A short script stands in for the bench.