How do I talk to my serial port using LabVIEW?

[relative0]

I am wondering how to talk to my linescan camera that is going to be hooked up via the serial port. Right now the camera (Kodak KLI 2113) is hooked up to the IMAQ board inside of my computer (PCI-1424), but I need to bypass that all together and talk to the camera through my serial port. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Brian

[EdDickens]

LabVIEW can communicate through the serial port using its VISA interface. LabVIEW comes with several example serial communication programs that should help you get started. Look in the Help menu and click "Find Examples...". After the dialog opens and gets populated, double click "Hardware Input and Output", then on "Serial" and there will be some samples you can start with.

As for actually talking to the camera, you'll have to get the serail command set from Kodak and build communications routines yourself, unless they, or somebody else already done that.

Ed