mac address pda

[Juanjo339]

Hello,

Can I use Resolve Machine Alias.vi, to get the MAC Address of my Touch Panel?. If thats right, haw can I use it?.

I was tring to use it in my pc and in the TPC without any success.

Thank you,

Juanjo

[miko]

There is no easy way to get your Touch Panel MAC address from a LabVIEW 8.2/earlier built application. If you just need to know the address, you can simply launch the command prompt on your touch panel and type "ipconfig -all". The MAC address is also usually displayed in the Network Utility dialog.

If you need to do this programmatically from LabVIEW, then you have to call CreateProcess using a call library node. Pass "ipconfig" and "-all" as the input parameters, then parse the std out parameter for the MAC address.

Refer to this KB for an example:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/03EBFA9BE4718CEE8625722F0009C396?OpenDocument

[Juanjo339]

Hello,

I have proved the example and it worked. Now I`m traing to handle the output of the comand sending it to a file "ipconfig -all>\mac.txt". When I type it in the comand prompt window, it works, but when I pass the parameters to the vi is like passing "-all" only. I have attached a vi as an example.

Is there another way to do it without using a file, because you cant pass command line arguments to a pda application in Labview, am I right?

Than you Miko and sorry for my english.

[Juanjo339]

Sorry,

The VI...

[miko]

Hi Juanjo,

To capture the output of cmd, use "cmd" as the executable name and "/c ipconfig -all > \mac.txt" as the parameter. Replace "/c" with "/k" if you want to keep the cmd window open.

I created an example for you. Just open the attached mac.lvproj.

Message Edited by miko on 07-23-2007 10:28 AM

[Juanjo339 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It worked.

Thank a lot.

Regads,

Juanjo