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Drivers for USB-4065

We are developing a software program that makes use of the digital multimeter device USB-4065. In order to use the USB-4065 the NI-DMM package (http://www.ni.com/download/ni-dmm-16.0/6177/en/) with a size of 1.7GB needs to be installed. How can we extract the drivers for only the USB-4065 device from this package? Or can we download it from somewhere else?

 

Thanks for the help

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Hello,

 

Unfortunately, we do not support extracting only the USB-4065 related binaries. The architecture of the USB-4065 driver makes this difficult, as it uses frameworks shared by many other device drivers. This is a recognized problem and new drivers (such as PXIe-408x DMM) have been redesigned from the ground up so they can shed most of the shared dependencies which results in a much smaller install size.

 

However, NI does support intalling only the runtime drivers, i.e. "NI-DMM Runtime 16.0 for NI 407x, NI 406x, and NI 4050 Devices". This is a smaller installer which allows you to run your programs that use the NI-4065 without installing development support pieces such as LabVIEW API VIs, documentation, and Soft Front Panel. This should result in significant storage space savings on systems in which you deploy your application. If you are using LabVIEW or CVI to develop your application, you can "deploy" you application, which will create an installer that includes the runtime driver. I will forward this to the NI-DMM Product Support Engineer who can better guide you through this process.

 

If you are using C to program the NI-DMM, let us know so we can look into alternatives.

 

Marcos Kirsch
Chief Software Engineer
NI Driver Software
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Thanks you very much for the quick reply.

Do have any idea what the size of this installer will be (roughly)?

We are programming the application in C++ (Qt framework). So what kind of alternatives are there availble?

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Do you have any update? Were getting close to release the software and otherwise we have to add a 1.7GB driver package to a application of only 40MB...

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HI @lecram, 

 

The size of the DMM Runtime installation to support your 4065 device will be around 900MB including neccessary dependencies. This will be the minimum required installation to run your application as far as the DMM is concerned. 

 

What development environment are you using? 

If you are using Visual Studio with our Measurement Studio suite, you can use the Measurement Studio Installer Builder to help package the Runtime along with you application.  

 

 

Otherwise you should also be able to use the NI Batch Installer Builder to distribute the runtime. 

Here's some guidance for using that: Creating a Custom Installer with the NI Batch Installer Builder

There is also a link at the bottom of that tutorial to download the latest version of the Installer builder. 

 

I hope this helps!

Please let us know. 

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Thanks for the help! It is solved now

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