daq.getVendors

(Not recommended) Display available vendors

This session object function is not recommended. Use DataAcquisition object functions instead. See Version History.

Syntax

daq.getVendors

vendor = daq.getVendors

Description

daq.getVendors lists vendors available to your machine and MATLAB^®.

vendor = daq.getVendors assigns the output list to the variable vendor.

Examples

Get the List of Available Vendors

Get a list of all vendors available to your machine and MATLAB, and store it in the variable v.

v = daq.getVendors

v = 

Number of vendors: 5

index     ID      Operational           Comment          
----- ----------- ----------- ---------------------------
1     ni          true        National Instruments
2     adi         true        Analog Devices Inc.
3     directsound true        DirectSound
4     digilent    true        Digilent Inc.
5     mcc         true        Measurement Computing Corp.

Programmatically determine if 'adi' is an operational vendor.

for idx = 1:length(v)
    if strcmp(v(idx).ID,'adi')
        v(idx).IsOperational
    end
end

ans =

  logical

   1

Output Arguments

vendor — Vendor list

array of VendorInfo objects

Vendor list, returned as an array of VendorInfo objects. This represents the vendor information available to your system.

For a list of vendors currently supported by Data Acquisition Toolbox™, and instructions for installing necessary support packages, see Data Acquisition Toolbox Supported Hardware.

Version History

Introduced in R2010b

R2020a: session object interface is not recommended

Use of this function with a session object is not recommended. To access a data acquisition device, use a DataAcquisition object with its functions and properties instead.

For more information about using the recommended functionality, see Transition Your Code from Session to DataAcquisition Interface.