# Create custom automated measurements

**URL:** <https://forum.quantasylum.com/t/create-custom-automated-measurements/1337>\
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**Created:** [March 31, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.quantasylum.com/t/create-custom-automated-measurements/1337 "2024-03-31T21:34:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dsmartbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dsmartbox](https://forum.quantasylum.com/u/Dsmartbox)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.quantasylum.com/t/create-custom-automated-measurements/1337/1 "2024-03-31T21:34:32Z")

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Is it possible to create custom automated measurements? (.ddl)

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**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://forum.quantasylum.com/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.quantasylum.com/t/create-custom-automated-measurements/1337/2 "2024-04-01T23:41:38Z")

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> Is it possible to create custom automated measurements? (.ddl)

Hi @Dsmartbox, here’s a good starting point on how to do that:

> **[QA40x API](https://github.com/QuantAsylum/QA40x/wiki/QA40x-API)**
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> Releases (no source) for the QA402 and QA403 Audio Analyzer. - QuantAsylum/QA40x

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**Author:** ![Dsmartbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dsmartbox](https://forum.quantasylum.com/u/Dsmartbox)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.quantasylum.com/t/create-custom-automated-measurements/1337/3 "2024-04-02T16:24:24Z")

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Hi, I don’t mean with the rest API, I mean as a “plugin”, similar to all the automated measurements already existing in the software

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**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://forum.quantasylum.com/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.quantasylum.com/t/create-custom-automated-measurements/1337/4 "2024-04-04T16:44:24Z")

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Hi @Dsmartbox, that used to be an option in the older software, but it was removed for the QA40x software as the API filled out. if you can write code, you can write a standalone app really quickly to make measurements. There’s a post on this board where a guy wrote a FLAC player for the QA40x (48, 96 and 192k) in about 100 lines of python. That was using the bare metal code (no QA40x app involved). The REST interface puts even less burden on the writer.