I am new to National Instruments hardware and LabVIEW and I'm trying to use an instrument with LabVIEW by using the DAQ Assistant. I am using a PC with Windows Vista and I'm connected through a network to a PXI 8108 controller in a PXI 1050 chasiss. The instrument is just a thermocouple which I am using to get familiar with everything. The thermocouple is connected to the SCB-68 connector block which is connected to a PXI 6221 multifunction DAQ in the chassis. I am able to create a task in MAX under remote system and everything seems to work. What I want to do is use that instrument within LabVIEW, and it seems that in order to do that I need to use the DAQ Assistant but when I do it says that no supported devices are found. I'm wondering if there is a way to get LabVIEW to look at the remote system to see the DAQ and the thermocouple. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks

Hello All, Ben is correct. RDA is no longer supported in DAQmx. We do have another way to use DAQmx with a remote system. This is to use DAQmx with an OPC server or simply with shared network variables. There is a knowledge base article here that should help you get started. You should also take a look at the developer zone article here. The basic idea is that you can use a shared variable within labVIEW that is bound to a shared variable on your networked machine. This way you can write and read values from a DAQmx task. Take a look at the instructions in the two articles above and let me know if you have any questions. Regards,Paul C.