Why am I unable to use NI-SCOPE, NI-DMM, and NI-DCPOWER in combination with Instrument Control Toolbox R2014a?

After installing niScope 3.9.7 (either after manually downloading from the NI website or through the NI-SCOPE hardware support package) I am unable to use niScope:

 

ictObj = icdevice('niScope.mdd', 'DAQ::Dev1',  'optionstring','simulate=true');
connect(ictObj);

Always throws the following error:

  ERROR: Error using icdevice/connect (line 112) The VXIplug&play driver could not connect to the instrument using the specified resource. If this error is not an instrument error, use MIDEDIT to inspect the driver.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

Note that this is a generic error message and this discussion refers only to a particular issue in MATLAB R2014a with some NI driver packages installing NI VISA 5.0, which had an issue with a missing header file (vpptypes.h).

The NI-SCOPE package 3.9.7 includes NI-VISA 5.0 which is missing a number of required header files.

Other packages which include NI-VISA 5.0 and may thus run into similar issues are:

• NI-DMM
• NI-DCPOWER

To resolve this issue please manually install the latest NI-VISA version (<http://www.ni.com/visa/>) after having installed NI-SCOPE, NI-DMM, or NI-DCPOWER.

If you see this error in a more recent MATLAB release it's probably caused by a different issue.

Note than NI VISA can be installed by a support package since R2015a (<https://www.mathworks.com/hardware-support/ni-visa-keysight-visa-tekvisa.html Instrument Control Toolbox Support Package for National Instruments VISA and ICP Interfaces>)