How to find USB device ID after set up in NI VISA

[MengHuiHanTang]

After NI VISA creates and installs the driver to a USB device, it is required to find the VISA instrument description to the USB device. 

You can easily find that long string in MAX if the driver is properly installed. But my question is what if you don't have MAX installed in the PC. How do you find the descriptor string without MAX?

[Minions · Accepted solution]

You can search:

• Using the VISA Find
• Looking in the Registry
• manufacturer and model number can be found in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB

If you wire a VISA Resource to your input, it should show you the options available.