Hi. I am using LabVIEW 2013, and am trying to connect to an Arduino - like device that communicates via an FTDI basic. The FTDI drivers are properly installed (I've tried the standard FTDI drivers and the drivers porvided by Arduino; the latter crashed my computer). The device is recognized by the PC as "USB Serial Port (COM 2)". The NI VISA drivers are installed as well (at first 5.4.1, but I am about to try with 5.3). Also I have uploaded the LIFA_Base.iso to the arduino device and the "LabVIEW Interface for Arduino" folder resides in "National Instruments\LabVIEW 2013\vi.lib". In LabVIEW, on a VISA resource constant or control, the COM 2 port doesn't come up however.
LabVIEW is successfully running data acquisition already via USB from an Agilent oscilloscope (which does come up as a VISA resource), so I know it can. Also the Arduino IDE communicates just fine with the device. Strangely neither the oscilloscope or the Arduino comes up in MAX.
I've been pouring over previous discussions and cannot find a resolution; it is always a driver that needs to be installed or the like, but I've tried that. My best guess is that it is because the device driver doesn't recognize it as an Arduino UNO, but every time I try to update the driver manually my computer crashes. Any clues?
