Is it possible to save a setup with NI-XNET Bus Monitor?

[jaime_c]

I'm trying to transition from using Vector CANoe to using NI-XNET Bus Monitor.

In Bus Monitor is it possible to save interface settings and the setting for the Signals tab?

[natasftw]

What is it you're trying to accomplish?  As I understand it, the XNET Bus Monitor is meant to take a quick look at your bus as a troubleshooting step more so than it is to do much of anything with the data.  Is that what you're trying to do or are you actually wanting to be passing data with it?

If you're wanting to do something more than spy on the bus communication, you'll actually want to get into the XNET examples in LabVIEW to put together an application to handle the data.

[jaime_c]

That's exactly what I'm trying to do - "take a quick look" while I develop other tools.  Unfortunately it's not quick if I have to repeat the setup steps every time I change the bus.

I was using CANoe but that's overkill for this task.

[Hooovahh · Accepted solution]

Don't think of the Bus Monitor as a product, it is more like a low level tool to see if things are working.  Very little effort seems to have gone into the user interface or user experience.  NI generally prefers to develop the tools, that you can use to make a wonderful application, they generally don't make that wonderful application themselves.

I'd look at some of the shipped examples in LabVIEW by going to Help >> Find Examples to see if any of those get close to the functionality you are looking for.  Then you can use that as a starting point for your own application.

[jaime_c]

Thanks for the reply!