Missing HSDIO examples in Labview 8.2

[billmileski]

Hi,

Just trying to get familiar with my newly installed NI PXI-6542 and start using it inside Labview 8.2.

I've installed everything that came on the NI-HSDIO "Instrument Driver for NI Digital Waveform Generator/Analyzers" disc, but I have none of the HSDIO example VIs (ref. below, from "NI Digital Waveform Generator/Analyzer Help":

Example Programs for LabVIEW

If you are using LabVIEW 7.0 or later, you can use the NI Example Finder to search or browse examples. NI-HSDIO examples are classified by keyword, so you can search for a particular device or measurement function.

To browse the NI-HSDIO examples available in LabVIEW, launch LabVIEW, click Open»Examples, and navigate to Hardware Input and Output»Modular Instruments»NI-HSDIO.

The LabVIEW examples are also installed at <LabVIEW>\examples\instr\niHSDIO.

Our installation doesn't have the "Modular Instruments" folder, or the "examples\instr\niHSDIO" path on disk.

Any idea where I can get the examples from?

Thank you,

Bill Mileski

[Onome]

Hi Bill,

What version of NI-HSDIO do you have?  You can find this out in the Measurement & Automation Explorer (expand My System-->Software-->NI-HSDIO).  LabVIEW 8.2 support in included in NI-HSDIO 1.4.3 and greater.  If the current version you have is 1.4.3 or greater, then you may have installed LabVIEW 8.2 after you installed NI-HSDIO.  If this is the case, just run the NI-HSDIO installer again and make sure that LabVIEW 8.2 support is selected in the list of features to install.  You can get the latest release version (1.5.1) online at:

https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-hsdio.html

Hope this helps.

Onome

National Instruments

[billmileski]

Onome,

I'll check the version of HSDIO when I get in tomorrow.. I did re-run the installer, and there were options for two Labview versions, but I think 7.0 and 7.2 if I remember. I remember there was none for version 8 or 8.2.  If my version is older than the latest one, I'll download from the link you gave and give it a shot.

Thanks, and I'll update this tomorrow (Thurs),

Bill

[billmileski]

Onome,

The good news is that the CD that we just received with our NI hardware was out of date, and I downloaded the newest version from the link you provided.

Bad news is that after the 700+ MB download, zip extraction, and a half hour of installation time, the installation stopped in the middle saying "please insert disk 2".  There was a browse option, and I pointed it toward all of the unzipped folders, without success.

I thought I had followed the installation instructions on the link you provided, but that file "install.txt" said the unzipping would create two folders, but mine only created one.

So would you recommend another version to try to download and install?

Bill

[billmileski]

..also just tried a few HSDIO things and found that the hardware is working, but Script Editor and Signal Express won't run.

Bill

[Onome]

Hi Bill,

Turns out that the 151 installer had files for both disk one and two mistakenly packaged in the same directory.  This has been corrected and updated with disk one and two in seperate directories.

For your convenience, I uploaded disk two to our FTP server: ftp://ftp.ni.com/outgoing/NIHSDIO1512.zip, so you can avoid the heinous download time of having to download both disks again.  Please unzip the folder "NIHSDIO1512" to the same location as the disk one folder "NIHSDIO151", relaunch the installer and point to the NIHSDIO1512 folder when prompted for disk two.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for the feedback in helping us catch this.

Please let us know if we can be of anymore assistance.

Onome

National Instruments

Message Edited by Onome on 04-05-2007 06:14 PM

[billmileski]

Onome,

Thanks. I downloaded it, installed, and it looks like all the HSDIO stuff is working fine now (Signal Express, Script Editor, and Digital Waveform Editor).  Also ran a quick test panel of the 6542 and it's still working too..

Thanks again for the help,

Bill