Can I configure weather station by parallel port?

[labview driver for agilent 8720ES S-para]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to design weather station via parallel connection. Is it possible to control the signal and receive the result through parallel communication? Because I could find any option for the parallel connection in the labview instrument input/output.

Mayuren

[Albert.Geven]

new pc's even have no parallel port !

[labview driver for agilent 8720ES S-para]

Yes, That is true. I just want to know is there any possibility to use parallel port to interface in labview.

[Albert.Geven · Accepted solution]

No problem.

You have several alternatives. You can use VISA or you can use portIO directly.

Depending on your version of LabVIEW you can use portIO it directly (>8) or need some library.

With VISA you can control the parport as a printer. Send bytes and control and read statusbits.

[Ricbace]

Hallo Albert!!

  Could you give some tips how to do it?  Because I need to control the parallel port, but I'm using windows vista with LV 8.5.1.... so the Inport and Outport doens't works... and  I tried to use visa... but ... since is parellel port.... there's no baundrate..etc etc... so how can I use ViSA do to it?? Or there's other way?

Thanks in Advance!!

Ricardo

[Mathan]

started a new thread with more informations here