Can't bind to com port

[rohrdt]

I am currently developing a FieldPoint system. I have a FP-1000 & FP-1001. Connected to these are 2 FP-SG-140 modules and 2 4-wire RTD modules. FieldPoint explorer sees all of the modules. I found an example LabVIEW vi that is suppose to acquire data from a single channel. When I run the vi I get the error - unable to bind to com port. I am not sure what is going on. Also what is the syntax for wiring the iak file name. Is that the file path i.e. C:\...\test.iak?
Thanks for any help.

[mrak1]

Hi,

You will get the "unable to bind to COM Port" error when another application is currently using the COM port. Windows only allows one program to have control of the COM port. Most likely, you have FieldPoint Explorer running when you attempt to use LabVIEW to connect to the FieldPoint hardware. Try shutting down both programs and only open LabVIEW.

Good Luck!

[Aaron_G]

The syntax for wiring the IAK name is the full file path. For Example "c:\my documents\test.iak". If you leave the file path un-wired, the FieldPoint Server will automatically load the last IAK file used in FieldPoint Explorer.

Regards,
Aaron