Distribution of cDAQ

[gdargaud]

Hello all,

I have finished the update of an old soft from NI-DAQ trad to NIDAQmx (thanks guys!) but I have a question about the distribution.

If I create an installer with only NI-DAQmx runtime, it's already 300Mb but when I install it on a blank PC, the hardware (a cDAQ-9184 ethernet chassis) is not detected. NI-MAX is not installed with this option.

If I install NI-DAQmx runtime with configuration support, of course NI-MAX is installed and I can configure the hardware there and everything works, but it's 1Gb.

Is it possible to get the installation of the chassis and its slot device taken care of directly from my soft on the 1st run ? Any other solution besides that ?

Thanks

[Air_Frantz · Accepted solution]

If you use MAX configurations, you will need to use the version of DAQmx runtime with configuration support.  It is possible to programmatically set up your tasks and channels without the use of MAX.  You would have to use DAQmx property nodes in your code to return a list of available devices, and programmatically choose which you want to use.  You would then have to set up your tasks programmatically using the correct DAQmx resource.

[gdargaud]

OK, thanks. I've just been told it's OK if the installer is 1Gb, so I'll go the easy way.