diff --git a/pyxrf/model/catalog_management.py b/pyxrf/model/catalog_management.py
index cf025b9a..ff01475b 100644
--- a/pyxrf/model/catalog_management.py
+++ b/pyxrf/model/catalog_management.py
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ def set_name(self, name):
 
 
 def get_catalog(catalog_name):
+    from packaging import version
+    import databroker
+    if version.parse(databroker.__version__).major == 1:
+        raise ValueError("Non-tiled version of Databroker is installed")
+    
     from tiled.client import from_uri
 
     c = from_uri("https://tiled.nsls2.bnl.gov")