Arduino Error 5005

[Kamilan]

Gidday,

The COM PORT shows itself in the Device Manager as COM3.

Here are the steps I followed.

Step 1.

https://lumen.ni.com/nicif/us/evaltlktlvardio/content.xhtml

Step 2.

http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Windows

Step 3

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/8C07747189606D148625789C005C2DD6

I can skethes into the arduino as per step 2. Once I updated the firmware,I proceeded to use to Arduino examples in LabVIEW. The problem is that I cannot see COM3 when  using  the VISA Resource as a control or constant I cannot see the comport as per the image attached.

Once again COM3 can be seen by the device manager and the Arduino development tool to send code and update the firmware.

Help?

Thanks

[Nathan_B.]

Did you try running it without any inputs to the Init function?  I've never wired an input for VISA Resource .

If that doesn't work, I would try the "VISA Find Resource" VI to see what it does actually find.

Also, if you installed the drivers while LabVIEW was running it might not recognize it until after a restart (of LabVIEW and maybe try restarting the computer).  I hope you already figured out by now if this works or not.

[Kamilan]

Hi Nathan,

Problem solved. At work when I install LabVIEW, I am normally prompted to insert the NI-VISA Driver disc.

At home with the student copy there is no NI-Drivers disc, and I was not prompted to install the disc.

I download the NI-VISA Drivers (500MB download) and installed.

BOOM! Works like a charm. I think the LabVIEW guys need to mention this step as it is not obvious (and will not be obvious to first time users of LabVIEW) to do this.

Thanks though!

Kamilan

[Nathan_B.]

The documenation that I used shows the NI-VISA drivers step:  https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-15971