Interfacing a Honeywell 1900 into a LabView Application

[Old.mainframe.programmer]

Has anyone successfully interfaced a barcode scanner (preferrably the Honeywell 1900) into their LabView Application? 

We are preparing to purchase the LabView environment to assist us in the setup a QA test station that will employ DMMs and light meters.  The barcode scanner is to read an inventory number tag off each item we are testing, place that tag number in program memory and then append that number onto the test results we pull from each meter to harden the data into a DBMS.

Any thoughts or assistance would be greatly appreciated..  

[0utlaw]

Hello Old.mainframe,

Welcome to the forum!

Short answer- yes, I have seen many, many LabVIEW applications that use a barcode scanner, RFID reader, or similar.  It looks like the Honeywell Xenon 1900 can be used as either a USB serial device through VISA or a Windows HID-compliant device (emulating a keyboard, more or less).  Both of these are pretty straightforward to interface to, and things are greatly simplified if you're just scanning barcodes and don't need to do any additional configuration.  Here are a couple examples that should get you started:

NI Community Example: Retrieve HID Device Values for Use in LabVIEW

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-15332

NI Community Example: Serial communication (e.g Bar code scanner) on a producer consumer loop handled by events by VISA

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-34536

I'd also try searching using alternate search terms (bar code, barcode, usb scanner, etc.) or taking a look at the "More like this" links on those pages as there are quite a few other examples out there.  Searching for examples using the type of communication you intend to use would also narrow things down and give you more useful results.

Best Regards,

[Old.mainframe.programmer]

Awesome.  Thanks for the reply Tom.  This elevates our confidence in our decision.