Do foundation fieldbus network configuration vi's exist

[arnaud]

Hi,
I am using NI configurator with a NI-FBUS PCI card. Ineed to configure the FF network under Labview 6.1 so that I could show on my PC screen how many sensors I have in my network and what are there IDs. Is there exiting vi's to do this.
Thank you

[fieldbus]

The NI-FBUS 3.1 FFLV VI library does not support showing live list of devices so far, you have to run TagEditor to find the corresponding device tag and address for each device.

But the new VI library (ver 3.1) supports VI to get device ID, please refer to the description of "FF_GetDeviceID.vi" in "NI-FBUS 3.1 VI" Help file for more information.

You can visit "www.ni.com/support/fbussupp" to download the latest NI-FBUS Communications Manager 3.1 to have these new VIs.

[arnaud]

Thank you but I already have these vi's but it does not help. Indeed to get the device ID I need the Pdtag and to get the pdtag I need the Device ID. So, I may be wrong, but there is no way under Labview to look at the Network and to get automatically(!!!) the number of connected sensors and and there devices IDs like NI-Configurator is able to.
It is that kind of vi that I need.

[fieldbus]

You are right, you need to have the PD tag to get the device ID if you use these VIs.

But the FF VI library is only used for data access and simple device configuration in LabVIEW, you have to configure the settings with Tag Editor first. It is not designed to replace Configurator software.