LabVIEW
LabVIEW NXG Instrument Driver Implementation Troubles
Hello,
I am fairly new to LabVIEW NXG and I've been trying to implement a instrument driver for a power supply unsuccessfully. These are the steps I took:
1. I opened NI Package Manager, searched for an Instrument Driver for the power supply (BK Precision 9131B), and installed it.
2. I connected the power supply to my PC, opened LabVIEW NXG, opened System Designer, verified that the LabVIEW is connected to the power supply, and verified that LabVIEW knows that the Instrument Driver is installed for the power supply.
3. I opened a new VI and looked at the Hardware Interfaces palette and verified if there is any nodes associated with the instrument driver.
The problem I run into is that there is nothing in the Hardware Interfaces palette that is associated with the instrument driver that I can see. I've tried looking at other palettes and reinstalling the driver, but still nothing. I also tried to look to see if there are example programs in the learning tab in the main menu, but I couldn't find any. Any help would be appreciated!
I'm having a similar issue with trying to hook up a DSO-X 3034A to LabVIEW NXG 5.0. NI Package Manager states that the driver is installed and the System Designer states a driver is both installed and missing.
The version of the driver in Package Manger is 2.1 whereas the driver specified here is 2.1: http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=9E84674573AF6AB8E0440021287E6A...
Furthermore, when trying to convert the driver written for LabVIEW to one for NXG, the wizard also tells me that the driver is missing.
Lastly, it appears that some portion or all of the driver (in a .nipkg file) is stored by the Package Manger in "C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\NI Package Manager\packages" during install, but the size of the package is only 5KB whereas other files are much larger. I don't think the examples and drivers could be stored in just 5KB...
Any insight to this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
