I have a wireless transceiver connected to the RS 232 slot on the computer. How can I utilize RS 232 to receive signals from three transmitters, through the receiver into the computer

[Lab Student]

I am building a weather station that consists of three devices that utilize serial communication. I have hooked their output to a wireless transmitter. I would like to have one receiver (transceiver) acquire the information from the three and paas it along to the computer through the RS 232. I don't have a clue as to how to get started in LabVIEW. Could someone please help get this weather station off the ground?

[A.S.]

Hi,
It appears that you are asking about how to do serial programming in LabVIEW. Have you taken any of the LabVIEW training courses? This is one of the basic topics that is covered and is greatly helpful. I have attached a few links below as reference:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/C553228FD78A7ADD862568F9006E9129?opendocument
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/8DECBF3E0B714BF3862568F9006E7851?opendocument

You can also go to http://www.ni.com/devzone/dev_exchange/ex_search.htm and search for serial examples if you want more examples in addition to the ones that ship with LabVIEW (Help -> Find Examples).

Serial communication is very simple. You have to open a connection to the port that you have your tranceiver connected to,
using something like VISA Open function. Then you can read or write to that port. And thats it. Take a look at the examples for a better understanding. I would highly recommend getting some training or purchasing on of the books on LabVIEW. This stuff is simple, but not trivial.

Hope this helps.

A.S.