Arduino Mega + HW 97 + NI DAQ + Witmotion Inclinometer

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Hello everybody,

Greetings from South America.

I have an application with NI DAQ 6008 (but I also have 6009 and 6001 at my disposal), in which I work with VSC programs to activate the DAQ ports, among others.

However, in my application I will need to add a Witmotion WTVB01 inclinometer, this device communicates with proprietary software via USB. However, I need to extract your data for my application.

As support material, Witmotion provided me with a script that integrates the inclinometer with an HW-97 converter, connected to an Arduino Mega 2560, which allows me as far as I analyzed (I haven't tested it yet) to receive data via the Arduino Serial.

However, I would like to go through the DAQ before arriving at the computer, that is, the Arduino receives it from the HW-97 and sends it to the DAQ and from the DAQ I can see this information as in a Labview for example.

And in the future I intend to remove the Arduino from this, and find a way to connect the HW directly to the DAQ.

The question I leave to everyone who can help is how to connect the Arduino Mega and a NI DAQ 600x so that the data received by the Arduino arrives via Serial in the DAQ?

Thank you in advance to everyone who can help in any way.

Regards.

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all those NI DAQ hardware you have are purely digital/analog IOs from what I could read online.

so NO, you cannot read directly serial with those.

what you CAN do on the other hand is use the mega (or any other board is all you need is only ONE serial port) and map the serial reads to suitable analog value (would you need to add in a DAC shield to your board)

that OR just get yourself a DAQ that supports serial and using a serial converter to connect said DAQ to your inclinometer

Good Luck!

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