How can my VISA control communicate with an instrument via TCPIP?

[bmihura]

The VISA controls find my GPIB instrument when I select "Refresh", but none of the TCPIP instruments. I know the TCPIP instruments are connected because I can ping them.

[ABCPrograms · Accepted solution]

if you're looking for how to build the resourcename, it can be found over here

TCPIP SOCKET

TCPIP[board]::host address::port::SOCKET

e.g.

TCPIP0::1.2.3.4::999::SOCKET	Raw TCP/IP access to port 999 at the specified IP address.
TCPIP::dev.company.com::INSTR	A TCP/IP device using VXI-11 located at the specified address. This uses the default LAN Device Name of inst0.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Did you create the VISA TCP/IP resource in MAX first?

[bmihura]

How is that done? I've used MAX for NI devices and other GPIB devices, but never TCPIP. I can't find this in MAX's help either.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Right click on Devices & Interfaces and select Create New>VISA TCP/IP Resource. Since you marked your question as solved, why are you asking?

[bmihura]

I'd like to know how to do this in MAX, even though that first answer solved my problem.

I actually read about the "Devices and Interfaces" item in MAX's configuration tree, but my MAX's tree does not have this. It only has this, as shown in the attached screenshot:

My System

   Software

Remote Systems

How do I get "Devices and Interfaces" into that tree?

[bmihura]

Hold on, I'll ask that in a new thread so you can get points.