Automating Measurement Automation Explorer

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to automate the installation of NI software and scope card
installation. After the NI scope software and scope card is installed
it seems that a refresh is required in NIMAX. Is there a way to
automatically cause a device refresh from the command line or another
program? I'm using Measurement & Automation Explorer 2.2.0.3010.

[Anonymous]

Hello Tom,

Thank you for contacting National Instruments.

I am attaching a folder which includes a VI to programmatically
refresh MAX from LabVIEW.

Keep in mind, if your MAX window is not titled "Measurement &
Automation Explorer" you will have to change a few string constants to
your actual MAX window title.

I hope this helps,

Sean C.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[Anonymous]

Sean,

Thank you. The zip file was empty. Can you repost it?

Tom

[Anonymous]

Tom,

I apologize... Here is the folder with its contents.

Sean C.
Applicaitions Engineer
National Instruments

[mp_Chris]

Is there a way to do this without Labview? I use VB to control my hardware and would like to have it refresh and remove unused hardware automatically

Thanks

Chris

[Chris_R.]

Hi Chris,

What exact hardware are you using?

[mp_Chris]

We use mostly PCI 4472's as well as USB9233's for acquistion and various cards for outputs. In particular I need the systems to automatically remove the entries and reset the device numbers when equipment is changed.

Thank You

Chris

[Jarrod_B.]

Hello Chris,

While there is no similar application that has been written for Visual Basic, I would propose an alternate solution.  Instead of trying to keep the Device names the same regardless of adding/removing hardware, scan for the current names (whatever they are) and use those in your application.  Toward this end, I would suggest that you take a look at the example program linked below.  While this was written in Visual C++, you might be able to use it as a guide for doing the same thing in Visual Basic.

Programatically accessing list of NI-DAQmx devices in a computer using VC++

I hope this helps!

Best regards,