Re: Reading controller data into LabVIEW through serial connections to controllers?

[unclebump]

You will need access to a manual that explains the protocol used for the serial communication. Do the units continually send the data without you asking for it?? Or do you have to ask for the data to be sent?? Are you going to read the same data repeatedly?? If you have a sample program that can talk to the units, you can use portmon to reverse engineer the data stream and the results. Labview makes it really easy to parse text data into meaningful info. You will learn a great deal of labview tricks with this project.