How to acquire data through Analog Input and use in a Digital Output with NI myDAQ?

I'm using a DAQ to acquire data through an Analog Port (AI:0) and need to use it to control 2 Digital Ports (D0:4;5 & D0:6;7). Using inputsingleScan I can only acquire 1 single scan from the Analog Input. I need to constantly update this scan in order to control the Digital Output. startForeground and startBackground seem to only work with Analog inputs and outputs.

I am taking data from a Photo-transistor and using it to change the direction of 2 motors.

So my question is, how can I continuously take scans using the Analog input to update the operations on the Digital Output?

Answer 1

[Amit Doshi]

Hello Danté,

You could use 'addlistener' to add a listener function to the session. This function is called every time the DataAvailable event occurs. Refer the below link :

http://www.mathworks.com/help/daq/examples/acquire-continuous-and-background-data-using-ni-devices.html

Inside that function, you can loop through the acquired data and use the 'outputSingleScan' function to output the data to a digital channel. Refer the below link:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/daq/ref/outputsinglescan.html?s_tid=doc_ta