cRIO 9076 Unable to Detect Physical Channel

[Vigren]

Hi All,

I am currently attempting to acquire data using NI cRIO 9076 Integrated Controller but am unable to create virtual channels using DAQmx. My situation is summarized below.

Hardware :

NI cRIO 9076 Integrated RT Controller 

NI 9205 Analog Input Module

NI 9403 Digital I/O Module

Software :

Labview 2011

Compact-Rio 4.0

MAX 5.0

NI DAQmx 9.3

All channels of C-series module and chassis are visible in NI Distributed System Manager and Labview Project Explorer.

But when using MAX to create a new DAQmx task, I am unable to detect the physical channels. Both NI DAQmx in Labview and right click at Data Neighbourhood in MAX to create NI DAQmx Task/Global Virtual Channel are giving out the message  "No Supported Devices Found". 

Plus, the hardware also does not seem to appear under the "Devices and Interfaces-Network Devices".  When comes to "Find Network NI DAQmx Devices" it was stated that "No Devices Were Found". The controller was named "VIGREN". Manually detecting using host name and IP also failed to detect.

My question is:

1. How come the PC detects the chassis and modules but when it come to NI DAQmx, it does not detect the physical channels ? Is this a software/hardware or network related issue? 

 2. Are cRIO 9076 RT controller not compatible with NI DAQmx ? And hence Scan Interface or FPGA Interface has to be used instead? Given the its seamless feature, I would prefer to continue use NI DAQmx to configure my data acquisition.

Thank you.

[TuiTui · Accepted solution]

Hi Vigren,

I think you misunderstand some of the concept here.

cRio is a real time system and is not a DAQ board which you cannot use DAQmx with it.

You can refer to this discussion link for more information

http://forums.ni.com/t5/Multifunction-DAQ/cRIO-9073-compatibility-with-NI-DAQmx/m-p/1194163#M58721

You can use either scan mode or FPGA to do the acquisition.

TuiTui

[Vigren]

Thank you TuiTui.