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Programmatically search for a device using Product Type

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‎07-23-2009 11:26 AM
Last Edited by: Member Example_Scrubber_Zi ‎07-31-2017 09:22 PM

Products and Environment

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    Software

  • LabVIEW

Code and Documents

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Overview

This example can programmatically search all of the National Instruments DAQ cards attached to machine for a specific product.
Description
This example uses a DAQmx System property node to access the list of discovered device names, and then a DAQmx Deviceproperty node to determine the product type of each of the discovered devices. If need to use a specific device type (eg. PCI-6221 regardless of the name which MAX has assigned to it

 

 
Requirements

  • LabVIEW 2012 (or compatible)


Steps to Implement or Execute Code

 

  1. Insert a specific device type. 
  2. 2.Run the program, this VI programmatically search a device which connect to computer.

 

Additional Information or References
VI Block Diagram

 

 

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 **This document has been updated to meet the current required format for the NI Code Exchange.**

 

 

 

Rich Roberts
Senior Marketing Engineer, National Instruments
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Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.