Ocean Optics realtime graph acquisition

[Trbo]

Hi Everyone I am new to LabView. I have been tasked with converting the output of an Ocean Optics USB4000 and displaying it. The main parameters that I need to control are integration time, stop, collect spectrum, and blank spectrum. I really don't know how to go about doing this and I would appreciate any and all help on the matter.

[Kyle97330 · Accepted solution]

Start by downloading the LabVIEW driver code here:

https://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=7833BD4A31DA1274E04400144FB7D...

Just in general, if you need instrument driver code you can check if there is already a public driver available by going to https://ni.com/idnet and doing a search there.

If I remember right, the driver code on the linked page needs you to install a different driver (included in the download) than the Ocean Optics installs when you use the drivers it comes with.  I haven't used one of these in a while so I could be remembering wrong.

[Trbo]

Hi Kyle, 

I have already installed the required drivers, What would be my first steps in graphically displaying the data of the required parameters? I'm really new to this so I'd appreciate any guidance. 

[Kyle97330]

The drivers should have come with some example code that displays some of that... have you tried that yet?

[Trbo]

I have been sleuthing through the provided examples and am starting to make some progress. But I am still having trouble controlling the integration time of the spectrometer.