diff --git a/ohmpi/ohmpi.py b/ohmpi/ohmpi.py
index 63f2033480e2306457b447d89b14f019749532d1..e717483bcb951a965399f034247c06840e6e2f13 100644
--- a/ohmpi/ohmpi.py
+++ b/ohmpi/ohmpi.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from ohmpi.logging_setup import setup_loggers
 from ohmpi.config import MQTT_CONTROL_CONFIG, OHMPI_CONFIG, EXEC_LOGGING_CONFIG
 import ohmpi.deprecated as deprecated
 from ohmpi.hardware_system import OhmPiHardware
+import tqdm
 
 # finish import (done only when class is instantiated as some libs are only available on arm64 platform)
 try:
@@ -708,7 +709,7 @@ class OhmPi(object):
             n = 1
         else:
             n = self.sequence.shape[0]
-        for i in range(0, n):
+        for i in tqdm(range(0, n), "Sequence progress:":
             if self.sequence is None:
                 quad = np.array([0, 0, 0, 0])
             else:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4c649e24d14cd66c5bc3460be933dd9a686ffc60..4ad4830494fab308899325c3f1615f2a234a27ab 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ numpy
 paho-mqtt
 termcolor
 pandas
-matplotlib
\ No newline at end of file
+matplotlib
+tqdm
\ No newline at end of file