Unable to find PXI Chassis in LabView

[Rob22Rob]

Hello everyone, 

I am trying to use a PXI chassis with some modules installed in order to automate some tasks.

The Chassis is connected via PXI cable to the PXI/PCIe card on the windows PC. 

The chassis and modules are visible in MAX and work well using the "Test Panel" function. 

However, when trying to create a LabVIEW project, they are not visible as devices I can interact with:

Are there any steps I am missing? 

Thanks!

E

[santo_13]

You're looking at the wrong location with an incorrect expectation.

Your PXI devices do not show up as targets in your Project. You just have to use the appropriate device driver APIs in your code and pass the instrument alias during initialisation.

Please note, this is not a cRIO or RT platform for you to add a target to your project.

[Rob22Rob]

Hey Santo, 

Understood.

Since i'm new to the interface it is highly probable i'm doing something wrong.

My aim is to try and connect the PXI-4071 DMM module in order to measure resistance as a first step. 

I'm aware of the "Resistance - Continuous Input.vi" example and when I tried browsing for a physical channel, I see no available devices: (note the "Dev1/ai0" is there as a default and throws an error when trying to run the program)

When I try using the DAQ assistant & the pop-up measurement type selection, no device is found either:

Same goes with the manual AI resistance channel:

Any idea how I can resolve and proceed here?

[ZYOng]

Hi Rob,

PXI-4071 uses NI-DMM driver instead of NI-DAQmx. 

I would recommend you check out the self-paced training of Interactively Controlling DMMs

[santo_13]

You need to use the appropriate driver for each instrument,

PXI-4130 niDCPower

PXI-6541 niHSDIO

PXI-4071 niDmm

PXI-5422 niScope

PXI-2527 niSwitch

So, you cannot use DAQmx with any of the above PXI instruments. You need to refer to the appropriate example too.