The first thing to do is to plug the USB connector into your PC and fire up MAX. Does it "see" the remote device? Does Windows tell you that the Driver for your remote device is installed? Is it a LabVIEW Driver?
It may be that your device has a "language" consisting of commands and parameters, and that you communicate with it through a Serial Port, including USB. Your manual should tell you. In any case, once MAX "sees" it, try sending some simple commands to it through the MAX Test Panel. If this seems to work, duplicate these steps using DAQmx (do not use the DAQ Assistant -- read the White Paper on using 10 DAQmx functions to do 80% of all DAQ "needs").
had you found the solution for that? I am also trying to switch output pins of omron plc in a sequence. For that, I would like to know if I have to first program the plc in cx program and than link the program to the labview code OR is it possible to just make those output pins switch sequentially using LabVIEW alone.!?
Our LabVIEW program was using TCP socket connection for sending bytes to the PLC. Each bit represented the state of a particular digital output. The PLC program was taking care of distributing the info to the related outputs. Respectively the state of the digital inputs was going back to the PC.
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