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:

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

[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 [broken link removed] on how to get NI Devmon to find your cool app.

It is well worth the effort