The sensor I connected to the computer appears in the "Sensors" group in "Device manager", but the port is not visible. Therefore, the NI-VISA com port is not detected. Is there any other way to communicate with the device in serial?Any opinion given is worthy of respect.

Well, your responses are always concise and undetailed. So you use the CA-USB6-MTI with the MTi-G-710 GNSS/INS. I hope your order number for your MTi-G-710 GNSS/INS starts with 0779xxxx, otherwise you clearly try to use the wrong cable. The MTi-710 can be ordered in 3 interface versions Interface Variant RS232+USB RS422 RS485+USB Order Number 0778xxxx 0779xxxx 077Bxxxx necessary cable CA-USB2-MTI CA-USB6-MTI CA-USB4-MTI In addition the CA-USB-MTI cable can be used with the RS-232 and RS-485 variant to directly connect it to an USB port, but then the device must be accessed through WinUSB (or libusb on Linux and Mac) in an XSens proprietary USB protocol (and you certainly do not want to venture into using VISA USB Raw communication to talk to the device in such a way, believe me). So assuming you have used the correct cable for your MTi-710 product you first have to make sure that there is indeed a valid COM port in the Windows device manager. As long as Windows doesn't see a COM port for this device, everything else is a moot exercise. And then you can start testing with the XSens provided test software but likely will have to tell it somewhere which COM port to use to communicate with your sensor. The application likely won't try to find devices on the COM port on its own, as that could have some very interrupting effect on other potentially connected serial devices, which might not like at all being send binary XBus protocol messages to test if it is an XSens device. And if that works you can switch off the XSens application and start trying to connect to the device in NI-MAX. And then go to the XSens website and download their XBus protocol document and start hacking. Binary serial communication can be a daunting task so get your caffeine and your stress relief ball ready. 😀

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It seems that the situation is negative, it is best to buy the right cable, I agree with you. There are sample applications, using NI-VISA with direct labview. Thank you for your answers.

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