Instrument I/O Assistant not available

I upgrade to Labview 8.5 from 8.2 and I am unable to find the Instrument I/O assistant on the pallete. When I open a VI that used the Instrument I/O and double click on the Instrument I/O Assistant VI a message come up to search for the vi. Where is the vi at? I uninstalled the Instrument I/O and reinstalled from the driver CD but still no luck.

Hello ajh,
perhaps this link helps you:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/DC808866AF7D5C0986256FCE006E9BAB?OpenDocument
You can find the device driver cd here:
http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/991/lang/de
Regards
DianaS

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I am new to Labview and I am trying to write a
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the first problem would appear to be that you send a reset command. But you only give the instrument
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Initially set time to 400msand see what NI spy reveals.
Go for it
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Instrument I/O Assistant not installed correctly

I've been troubleshooting this problem for over 2 weeks now and every response to this question that has found success I have tried, but was unable to fix the problem.
in labView, double selecting the I/O Assistant it reads the infamous text
"I I/O Assistant Not installed correctly or..."
I have downloaded the latest NI-VISA 5.1.3 (or the latest), NI-488.2. In order to install the NI-VISA I needed to find a .net 4.0 framework & Visual Studios 2003 or better. After this failed, I downloaded the DCD_AUG12_1 & 2_Downloaders. After that did not work it left me considering if my machine or equipment is the problem, or if the software is just unable to support these features.
My System Information includes
Windows XP 32 bit
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8757d
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HP8753x
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When trying to communicate with the machine connected to my computer, I can write to it, however I cannot read from or query information from it. NI says its connected just fine.
Lastly my NI is 2005 and Labview is 8.0
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RxTx,
It looks like you might actually have too new of a version of VISA. Please see the following KnowlegdeBase article for more information about which version you require:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/E7C93038169B6E7686257847004B8B9C
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I recently purchased a student edition of Labview 2009 and I've been having problems with the intrument I/O Assitant. Each time I place it on the block diagram I get the error message that it was not properly installed. I've searched the knowledge bases and carried out the recommended remedies to no avail. I downloaded drivers from NI.com, uninstalled NI VISA and reinstalled the its latest version still nothing worked. Can someone please help me out here.
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Hello,
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Measurement and Automation explorer or the Instrument I/O Assistant is not installed correctly.

I am having difficulties getting Labview to work with my NI card. I have a PCI_6225 card running on a Win 7 64-bit install. I had to download all of the drivers and installers from the NI site and during the Labview install, I recieve a prompt asking for my hardware drivers. Since I only have the compressed hardware installer, Labview doesn't like what it sees and continues the installation of LABVIEW. I then attempt to open an analog input channel through the Instrument I/O Assistant which displays the error seen in the image attached.
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Hello jbaxter,
When you download the Drivers from NI's website, make sure you unzip them (extract them) to a folder on your computer before you install them. If you use the NI Downloader it should prompt you to unzip and run the files after the download is complete. You need to either repair, or reinstall DAQmx and NI VISA. Make sure you download the latest versions of these first:
http://search.ni.com/nisearch/app/main/p/bot/no/ap/global/lang/en/pg/1/sn/catnav:du,ssnav:sup/1//en/...
Then go to Control Panel»Programs and Features»National Instruments Software and click Uninstall/Change then go to DAQmx and NI-VISA and click Repair. You can then point to folder that you downloaded from NI's website (make sure this is not a zip folder, but the folder that has been extracted). Or you could choose Remove, and then reinstall them both again. Also if you are using GPIB, reinstall or repair the NI-488.2 driver.
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http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/DC808866AF7D5C0986256FCE006E9BAB
http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Again-I-O-Assistant-not-installed-correctly/td-p/1024807
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Instrument i/o assistant doesnt work

I have installed LV 8.20 evaluation Version on a WIN2K PC
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When I drop the instrument i/o assistant in blank vi and try to configure it ,
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Hello beethoven,
please think about downloading the latest driver CD of this year (August 06) which is available from:
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Again : I/O Assistant not installed correctly.

I Run LV 8.6 and MAX 4.5 ( XP, SP3 , AMD64x2-6 GHz , 4 GB RAM, 3 TB HDD ).
LV works perfectly.
However, I stumble upon the very same problem of the past when trying to run the I-O Assistant express.vi ( " MAX or Instrument I/O Assistant not installed correctly. Install from LV Driver CD "),
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Martijn,
Do you have the VISA functions in your functions palette?
Yes.
Or are there none instrument IO functions available?
They are
Next we can check if the InstrIOAsst folder available in the vi.lib folder (national instruments\labview xx\vi.lib)
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I was puzzled and still am a bit, but WOW, as per your advice I deinstalled the NI-VISA 4.3 and downloaded and installed the 4.6 one and guess what ? It works.
I wonder why the 4.3 obviously failed since it did do the job in the past.
I wouldn't have raised myself the idea to reinstall the NI-VISA driver, so thanks.
Kudos !
Peter.

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Instrument I/O assistant configuration dialog box does not appear

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Dear NI creators and users,
I freshly installed the LabVIEW 8.5 and the default set of device drivers (on a new Windows XP machine), all of which I downloaded as disk images from our university central repository (we have a site-wide license). The first thing I tried to place in my first VI was the "Instrument I/O Assistant" and I got this message: "Measurement and Automation Explorer or Instrument I/O Assistant is not installed correctly. Please install these from the LabVIEW Driver CD." I tried to repair the installation, but no change. The M&A Explorer comes up fine, when I select it from the Tools menu, so I doubt, that the problem is there. Needless to say, the "Instrument I/O Assistant" throws the same error when double-clicked in the template file.
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Hi Daniel,
the following knowledge base contains some information how to troubleshoot:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/DC808866AF7D5C0986256FCE006E9BAB?OpenDocument
Maybe you didn't install the NI-VISA or NI-488.2 driver.
I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
With best regards
Ralf N.
Applications Engineering
Germany
PS:
If that wouldn't work for you, download the latest driver-CD from our website and install it. ( It may take a while. )
http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/1079/lang/de
I'd recommend to use an USB-harddisk for transferring the files.
Message Edited by ralfn on 12-23-2008 02:29 AM

I want to communicate a RS485/2-wire device through COM1. I tried Instrument I/O Assistance to write to COM1(hex string with or without end bye:0D0A), something happened on the bus, but is not defirrential signal, and device didn't recognised them.

I am new to LabView, so please bear with me...
I tried to communicate with an RS485/2-wire device through COM1. I used Instrument I/O Assistant (and Advanced/Basic Serial Write and Read examples) to write command (HEX string) to COM1,
tried writing HEX strings with and withour end bye (is 0D0A the correct end signal for HEX string?). Both didn't get device's responce. Looks like the device didn't recognize the command.
I monitored the transmitted signals on the bus, they were not differential as supposed to be.....
What is the possible reason to cause this? Please help...
The hardware connection is OK, because I am able to communicate with the device through COM1 (with the same command) using different software application.

How are you sending the hex? Is your string control set for hex display or normal? If it's set for normal, then if you send something like 'AD', then you aer sending the ASCII characters 'A' and 'D' and that's not the same thing. I don't believe the I/O assistant can send hex but you can modify the basic serial write and read to do so. Just right click on the string control and select 'Hex Display'. You can also enter the data in a numeric control (set for dex display) and use a type cast or an array of U8's and use the Byte Array to String function. Hex data usually doesn't use any kind of termination characters such as CR/LF.
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