check device name

[Ondik]

Hello,

i have ni usb-6008 card a installed ni-DAQmx 9.3.5 driver software, name of device is autamatically "Dev1", how can

i automatically read name of the other device: For example ,I need connect new ni usb-6009 and in my program i need find this new device automatically ?

thanks

[Michael_78]

Not quite sure what you want to do but this wil list all connected devices:

[NIquist · Accepted solution]

Here is a similar topic that might help:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/How-can-I-read-the-active-plugged-in-DAQs-and-then-send-that-to/td-p...

[Ondik]

thanks to all !

[JÞB]

You are going about it the wrong way

The smarter way is to detect the device insertion and use a custom exe to rename the device alias

Here is an example of the code to rename the device

Here are the instructions on how to get NI Devmon to find your cool app.

It is well worth the effort