NI-VST firmware version

[Tevildo]

How do I query the firmware version of a NI-VST module (specifically, the NI PXIe-5646R) from a C application?  I can see the firmware version in MAX, but this module doesn't support the niRFSA_revision_query or niRFSG_revision_query functions.

[edjones93]

Hello,

I am Ed from National Instruments Applications Engineering. I have been researching into your query with regards to ascertaining the firmware version of the 5646R.

Unfortunately from what I can ascertain, you are correct in that this is an unsupported feature for this particular card. I was wondering what the application need was to require acquisition of said information programmatically?

Best regards,

Ed

[Tevildo]

Ed, thanks.

Our procedures require us to record this information for all items of test gear used on customer products.

How does MAX retrieve the firmware version?

[edjones93 · Accepted solution]

This is indeed the case, thank you for broading the scope of the question, I was able to locate this community example for you:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-41906

This uses System Configuration which is in fact NI MAX, that is to say that these VI's communicate with NI MAX to acquire hardware/software information.

[Tevildo]

Thanks, that seems to work.  I've used nisyscfg.dll, as described at:

NI System Configuration 15.0 Function Reference

Is it possible to use nisyscfg to retrieve the device name (that is, the "Pxi2Slot3" name, not the model name), or do I still have to use niModInst for this?

[edjones93]

Hello,

In order to do this I would suspect that this would be a property of the device, so call the function linked below, with the operation to read the property NISysCfgIndexedPropertyExpertUserAlias as explained in the second below linked document:

1. http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/373242H-01/nisyscfgcvi/nisyscfggetresourceindexedproperty/

2. http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/373242H-01/nisyscfgcvi/prop_indexrsc/

Best regards,

Ed

[Tevildo]

Thanks again, that works.  The expert name to look for is "ni-vst", incidentally.