DAQmx 8.7+ VISA 4.20 Runtime no TCP/IP-Devs in MAX

[IngoWolf]

Hi Group,

I have installed DAQmx 8.7 + VISA 4.20 Runtime on an Client-Maschine

and can't create an TCP/IP-Dev in Max there is only PXI.

Unfortunately my scope is connected by Ethernet.

What else do I have to install to have full VISA-TCIP support in Max

like on my LabView 8.5 developer maschine, where I can create

TCP/IP Devs.

Ingo

[pankaj]

Ingo,

You will need full NI-VISA installation, not just VISA Runtime, to be able to create TCPIP resources in MAX.

Having said that, you don't really need to add the device in MAX to be able to use it from a LV program. Adding a resource will let you choose the resource from the VISA resources drop down but if you know the resource string for the TCPIP device, you can use it directly in your program. An easy way to do it is to add the instrument you want to use in the dev machine, note the resource name the instrument comes up with and use the same name on your deployment computer.

Pankaj


Message Edited by pankaj on 01-30-2008 09:28 AM

[IngoWolf]

Seems not to work,

I have hardcoded the VISA-Resource-String I got by browsing on my

developer maschine to the code an it works on my developer

maschine but not on the client.

For what is a VISA run time usefull when I can't find the instruments

on my buses.

The NI VISA-System is also badly implemented not finding the

IP-Devices in the local Subnet automaticaly like TEK-VISA.

I use TekVISA for now, but the NI Software seems not to like it,

but my tool instead, OK programmed it with the TEK VISA docu,

but thought should be the same from the api side.

Ingo

[Dennis_Knutson]

I haven't tried it with TCP/IP instruments but when you created the installer, did you also choose to include the MAX hardware configuration and export your settings into an .nce file? for the installer properties, select Hardware Configuration and check the Include Hardware Configuration box and click on the Configure button.

[IngoWolf]

I'm not yet at that level.

I thougt I can copy a Labview Vi to another Computer and Install die Labview runtime and DAQmx and it works, DAQmx allready contains an Labview Runtime of higher Version than 8.5 i've seen today.

Actually my programm is made with Visual C++ 2005, for now I needed the ni stuff for some Signal Express Project and this also can't work without TCP/IP with the scope.

To make a labview VI from my Signal Express Project is also not that easy like the videos tells, OK I got one but allready the IVI-Scope-Waveform-aquisition working in Signal Express fails in Labview with lot of Errors in NI Spy.

Also the IVI SubVIs in Labview seem to be as static as the steps in Signal-Express you have no connectors for all the options of the IVI-Drivers you set in the dialogs but I need a lot of extended functionality for my problems which mean setting that options with results of earlier steps.

May be I find a little more possibilities after some more days work.

Ingo

[Colin hughes]

I find with TEK-VISA installed and NI visa them MAX no longer works (hangs)

Colin