How do I acquire data form 12 serial ports simultaneously?

[unclebump]

If you include the instrument number in the queue data, you might be able to do it with one queue. Wire an array into the create queue and use the instrument number to index the array. 12 queues will get pretty involved.

[Skoorb]

The instrument returns it's ID which in this case is an upper case letter A-L for the 12 sensors. I tried what you suggested but couldn't get it to work.

My test vi with 5 sensors is using 5 separate queues and yes teh wiring is a tad messy.  🙂

I need to take a little time to clean everything up and create subvi's.

[unclebump]

I may have mixed things up a bit. Add the instrument number data to the queue. Wire the array to the consumer loop that receives the queue data. Then use the instrument number to insert data into the proper spot in the array. Post your code and we'll see if we can help.

[Ben]

I like your train of thought Uncle.

Thought:

If the queue was a cluster with a field to hold the device ID and another field for the data....

The recieved queue elements could be unbundled to direct the data appropriately.

Ben

[cmpowell]

Try making a seperate vi for each wind gauge and have them broadcast their data over a datasocket connection, then have a seperate vi read the 12 datasocket connections at whatever interval you want.

just a thought

[falkpl]

Yes a multi threaded (one for each instrument) producer consumer should work.  I have even done this with spawning threads on the initialize step, works really well.

Paul