# DAQiFi MCP Server

Discover, configure and read DAQiFi Nyquist data-acquisition hardware from an AI agent

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled DAQiFi yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `Daqifi.Mcp` on nuget. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**8 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### mcp: discover_devices clamps the timeout to a 250 ms floor, but serial identify takes ~830 ms — any short timeout silently returns no devices

`DaqifiAgent.DiscoverAsync` clamps the caller's timeout with `Math.Clamp(timeoutMs, 250, 30_000)`. On real hardware the serial identify handshake takes **~830 ms**, so every value in the lower two thirds of that advertised range — including the floor itself — returns an **empty list**, silently, and is indistinguishable from "no device is plugged in".

Found by bench-validating `Daqifi.Mcp` end-to-end against a real Nyquist (fw 3.7.2) over USB CDC, with the server built from `origin/main`…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/daqifi/daqifi-core/issues/448) · 2026-08-06 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### CoreDeviceAdapter needs improvements for true drop-in replacement capability

## Summary

The current CoreDeviceAdapter (v0.4.1) is not ready for production use as a drop-in replacement for existing MessageProducer/MessageConsumer implementations. During integration testing with a real-world desktop application, we discovered critical functionality gaps that prevent successful migration.

## Issues Discovered

### 1. Message Format Incompatibility
**Problem:** CoreDeviceAdapter's MessageConsumer provides `IInboundMessage<object>` events, but existing applications expect…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/daqifi/daqifi-core/issues/39) · 2025-08-06 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### feat(mcp): a stale Daqifi.Mcp install is silently missing the data path — surface version and staleness

## Why

On 2026-09-07 a developer machine here had `Daqifi.Mcp` **0.28.0** installed while **1.7.0** was published — nine releases of drift, with nothing anywhere signalling it.

That is not cosmetic. 0.28.0 predates #524 (*"an agent can read a measurement, not just configure one"*), so it exposes **10 tools instead of 25**, with no `read_channel_values` and no `capture_samples`. An agent driving that install can discover a device, connect, configure channels and start SD logging — but **cannot…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/daqifi/daqifi-core/issues/727) · 2026-09-07 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### feat(mcp): publish Daqifi.Mcp to the MCP registry — the server exists but cannot be found

## Why

Independent developers are hand-building MCP servers for bench instruments, because no instrument vendor ships one:

| Created | Repo | Instrument |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | `mp911de/siglent-scpi-mcp` | Siglent scopes |
| 2026-08-30 | `colingimenez/SCPI_MCP` | "the run of your benchtop test equipment" |
| 2026-08-25 | `zinntikumugai/rigol-oscilloscope-mcp` | RIGOL |
| 2026-08-23 | `ValiantandUpright/oscilloscope-mcp` | — |
| 2026-07-05 | `lxkang00/oscilloscope-mcp` | Siglent…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/daqifi/daqifi-core/issues/726) · 2026-09-07 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### feat(mcp): live-data tools — an agent can configure everything and measure nothing

**Type**: Feature (MCP + Core API)
**Priority**: High

## What
The MCP server's 15 tools include **no way to read a measurement**. An agent can discover, connect, configure channels, drive DIO/PWM, set the sample rate, and start SD logging — but can never answer "what is the voltage on AI0?". `grep StreamSamplesAsync|SampleReceived|LiveSample src/Daqifi.Mcp/` returns zero hits; the MCP README states it: "Data does not stream back to the agent in this version."

Core already has the entire…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/daqifi/daqifi-core/issues/498) · 2026-08-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 8 reports Pod holds for DAQiFi](/mcp/daqifi/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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