I'm working from home, and my PXI (an older version, not the PXIe, but a straight PXI) is in my office at work, but the following questions seem relevant:
- When you have the PXI on and connected to the same network as your PC, does it show up in MAX under Remote Systems? [You may have to "refresh" the list of Remote Systems to get MAX to go out and "look for it"].
- If the answer is "No", then there's the basic problem -- the PXIe is "invisible" to the network, and thus not terribly useful as a LabVIEW RT Target. There are still things you might be able to do with it (like running it as though it were the Host, something a colleague of mine apparently was convinced to do by a slick NI Sale Person who sold him an expensive system that I believe is still gathering dust).
- If MAX can see the PXIe, open the Software Tab and be sure that the software on the PXIe system seems to be compatible with LabVIEW 2018. If MAX offers to "update" some of it, you might consider doing so. Also, open the Hardware Tab and be sure that all of the installed Cards show up. You might consider trying some Test Panels to see if things are working.
- If MAX can "see" it, then LabVIEW (and DAQmx) should also be able to see it. Try creating a Real-Time Project, targeting it to your PXIe. Go and create/save a Task for one of your PXI devices (let's say "My_AD_Task"), then open a VI on the Target (in LabVIEW), drop a DAQmx Start Task, create a Constant on the Task In input, and click the little black triangle and see if My_AD_Task appears, showing that you now can use Tasks in LabVIEW.
You've probably tried all of these things already. But I couldn't tell from your Post if this is a "new problem" or a "newly-discovered problem" (as happened to me when I turned my old PXI on after 5 years of not being used, and forgot I had to "refresh its software", including adding a new, compatible-with-my-current-LabVIEW-Version Pharlap").
Let us know how it goes. Now, if I could only get myRIO to work "as I think it should" ...
Bob Schor
