[So, What's the Deal Here?]

I really appreciate the replies, and you've helped me to better understand the functions and limitations.

 

@JColvin I'm mostly talking about the industry standard workhorse sniffrom -https://github.com/alainiamburg/sniffROM and how it only works with Saleae analyzers. I just lament the DD lacking the ability to output compatible data, or Waveforms having such a function inbuilt.

 

[So, What's the Deal Here?]

I bought a Digital Discovery upon asking a few friends what they thought I should pick up as a logic analyzer.

I've been playing with the Waveforms tool over the last few days, and unlike say, Sigrok, and a Salae, the Digital Discovery seems to consistently fail to properly capture UART transmissions, spitting out various framing errors where the other logic analyzers I have do just fine when connected.

 

The biggest issue I have however is the lack of ability to export raw binary data. Nobody I've spoken to has been able to provide any kind of solution to exporting a hexdump, or binary blob other than 'I dunno, just use the Salae', which is a little disappointing.

 

Is the Digital Discovery like a testbed product or something? I'm just not sure about all this, ya'know...