Basic Visa with Arduino help

[morpheuskibbe]

Hello I'm very new and trying to do basic communication with LabVIEW and Arduino

I followed this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODJOwD8WklI  and everything worked UNTILL trying to choose the Arduino com port in LabVIEW (17:10 point).  The VISA resource name thing is just empty for me.  I've tried googling around and everything I've found thus far just assumes that the Arduino will show up as a com right away no fuss. I've attached the INO and the VI.  The com monitor in the arduino IDE definitly works to talk to and control the board, i just need to know why the visa resource name field is empty.

 

[GovBob]

By "com monitor" I assume you meant serial monitor installed with the Arduino IDE? If using the serial monitor works note what com port it uses and then close the serial monitor otherwise you will have a contention with LabVIEW for that resource. Check the I/O Name filtering in LabVIEW by right clicking the VISA resource name control on the front panel.

Note: I do not have your version of LabVIEW so I did not look at your code. 

[morpheuskibbe · Accepted solution]

I eventually figured it out.  think my version of labview / VISA was out of date or busted or something.  I reinstalled it and the coms started showing up.