I/O control to/from NI USB-8476 LIN

[terry haskin]

I have a NI USB-8476 LIN interface module.

Is there no simple method of communication without spending more money??

All I want to do is to ship a few bytes to a LIN device and display the return data.

[Justin_E]

Hello,

If you're using LabVIEW, have you tried looking at the LIN shipping examples we provide with the NI-CAN driver? You can find these examples by opening up the NI Example Finder in LabVIEW (Help->Find Examples), and navigating to Hardware Input and Output->LIN. There are a number of basic examples that should get you up and running with LIN communication.

[terry haskin]

Hello Justin,

I don't have LabVIEW.

When I purchased the LIN interface I thought I was getting a complete communication package.

I do have access to VB6. I guess I'll load that up and give it a try.

Thanks for your help.

Terry

[Justin_E]

Hey Terry,

You can find NI-CAN dll's and examples for VB6 at <National Instruments Directory>/NI-CAN/MS Visual Basic. This should hopefully give you some tools to start communicating.