Continuous Acquisition and Generation LabVIEW RT

[MgDAQ]

I have been referencing this example for a real time application I am writting:

Continuous Acquisition and Generation Reference Example for LabVIEW Real-Time

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/5366

I am using the exact code provided. I run the host vi, configure the Target-Main vi for the IP address of my computer and point the AI and AO to cards on my system. All as instruced in the comments. The Host front panel displays my data correctly.  Although the time doesn't apear to update in the waveform graph. The program times out correctly after 10 seconds. 

The issue is the tdms file.  The tdms file created is garbage, nothing coherent when I go to open it in notepad. I see the code is rated at 2.33 out of 5. Is there a correction for this code, or a better example to use?

[Cory_K · Accepted solution]

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gardma wrote:

The issue is the tdms file.  The tdms file created is garbage, nothing coherent when I go to open it in notepad. I see the code is rated at 2.33 out of 5. Is there a correction for this code, or a better example to use?

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Of course you cannot read the TDMS file, you arent a computer  

TDMS files are written in binary, so trying to read it in Notepad will be meaningless.

You would have to convert it to something readable like ASCII first

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3727

[deppSu]

In labview, you can use "TDMS File Viewer.vi" to read tdms files and have a check of the data written.

[MgDAQ]

I will select another file type. Thank you for your help.