How do I configure and use a NI PCI-6509 digital IO card in labview realtime

[Tom_M]

I want to use a  NI-PCI-6509 digital IO card in my realtime target. The device is installed and accoridng to MAX it's working properly. How do I control it from labview,. I am running labview 8.5 RT and DAQ-MX 8.6

Regards,

Tom

[TheWay]

Hi Tom,

You should be able to control your PCI-6509 board in LabVIEW using the normal DAQmx calls you use as if you were using a PC target.  To get started, try running any of the digital input or output DAQmx examples in the NI Example Finder.

Regards,

Way S.

[Tom_M]

Way,

I have managed to configure the card now. What I was missing was the appropiate parts of DAQ-mx for labview 8.5. When I installed DAQ-MX for some reason I didn't install the labview 8.5 runtime.

Regards,

Tom

[TheWay]

Hi Tom,

LabVIEW Runtime 8.5 is part of the LabVIEW 8.5 installation and not a part of DAQmx. For real-time applications, you are probably talking about installing the LabVIEW Real-Time Engine and not the Runtime engine. Can you explain a little more about your setup? Are you using two desktop PCs, one as a development machine (running Windows) and the other as your RT target (running LabVIEW Real-Time ETS)? Have you followed the steps here to setup your RT target PC:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4480

Let me know.

Regards,

Way