How can I check NI card serial numbers and calibration dates in a DIAdem Script?

[jordyjordyjordy]

Hello - I'd like to create a DIAdem script that would generate a quick list of the serial numbers and calibration dates of all the NI cards listed in NI Max on the same machine. How can I access the card information through DIAdem? I have DIAdem 2014, but can upgrade to 2015 if that's required.

[Queue-tip]

One way that you could accomplish this is to run a LabVIEW VI from DIAdem that programmatically accesses this information and then writes it to a text file.

How to Programmatically Retrieve Hardware Information (Product Name, Serial Number, Firmware, etc.)

http://forums.ni.com/t5/Community-Documents/How-to-Programmatically-Retrieve-Hardware-Information-Pr...

You could then read from that text file in DIAdem.

Opening, Reading, and Writing Text Files

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/diadem/page/procauto/procauto/procauto_fileopen.htm

To launch a LabVIEW VI from DIAdem, please reference the following documentation.

Calling a LabVIEW SubVI with DIAdem

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/diadem/page/lvhelper/objects/ilvruntime_objects_overview.htm

There may also be a way to do this with the DIAdem DAC Bundle...

NI DIAdem DAC Bundle

https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/product/diadem-with-data-acquisition-bundle.html

[Christian-P]

Hi,

Another alternative would be to use System Configuration .NET API:

http://www.ni.com/download/ni-system-configuration-16.0.1/6411/en/

After installing it with .NET Development support, you can find some examples here:

C:\Users\Public\Documents\National Instruments\MStudioVS2012\DotNET\Examples\SystemConfiguration

The ShowAllHardware example reads all serial numbers.

When using the "Make assembly COM-Visible" option in Visual Studio, you can interact with your .NET application in DIAdem script.