Using Ethernet encoder with cDAQ9184/9188 using LabWindows?CVI

[JPKnapick]

I am currently using LabWindows/CVI to collect data from cDAQ9184 and 9189 racks. We wish to incorporate a high-resolution absolute position encoder into the software calculations.

Our options so far have been to use BiSS/SSI (which the cDAQ racks do not support), or use an incremental encoder (which would not be as reliable).

I have found a suitable encoder that uses Ethernet. How can I incorporate this into my current LabWindows/CVI software?

[rolfk · Accepted solution]

If you say it uses Ethernet, are you refering to a raw IP frame level protocol (or God forbid even something non IP related) or rather TCP/IP?

In the first case you have serious trouble but if it is using TCP/IP you can of course always implement that protocol on top of NI-VISA with a TCPIP0::<Ip Adress>::<port>::SOCKET as resource identifier. Just look at the VISA Library in CVI.

Alternately you could also use the Network library as explained in here.