{"id":139,"date":"2010-03-21T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T20:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukemiller.org\/?p=139"},"modified":"2010-03-21T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T20:17:31","slug":"using-the-usb-500-datalogger-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/2010\/03\/using-the-usb-500-datalogger-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the USB-500 datalogger in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to<a href=\"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/thermocouple-d\u2026-the-usb-501tc\/\"> this earlier post on the USB-501TC thermocouple datalogger,<\/a> I&#8217;ve now successfully gotten the USB-500 software running under Windows 7, in a slightly roundabout way.<\/p>\n<p>You might recall that Measurement Computing has been spectacularly tardy in updating their various software to install and run under the newer 64-bit versions of Windows (Vista and Windows 7). Fortunately, if you run Windows 7, you can run the USB-500 software in Windows 7&#8217;s Virtual XP mode, provided you have appropriate hardware and Windows 7 Professional (Home Premium and below won&#8217;t cut it) to run the virtual machine. If you do have the hardware, you can download the Virtual PC program from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/virtual-pc\/download.aspx\">Microsoft.<\/a> Once your XP virtual machine is up and running, open up a web browser in the XP virtual machine and download the USB-500 software from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccdaq.com\/\">Measurement Computing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Install the USB-500 software, including the .NET framework when prompted by the installer. When finished installing, launch the USB-500 application.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/usb-500_screen.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141 \" title=\"USB-500 application\" src=\"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/usb-500_screen.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USB-500 application running in Windows 7 Virtual XP mode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The next step is to plug in your USB-500 device to the computer. Windows 7 will probably balk at first when it can&#8217;t find a driver, but ignore it. Instead, go to the USB menu at the top of the Windows XP Mode window. This allows you to &#8220;attach&#8221; USB devices to the Virtual XP environment so that programs inside the Virtual XP environment can control them. On my computer, the USB-501TC shows up as the USB API item in the USB menu shown below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/attach_USB.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142 aligncenter\" title=\"Attach USB API\" src=\"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/attach_USB.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/attach_USB.gif 472w, https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/attach_USB-300x233.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you attach this item, the Windows XP plug-and-play driver wizard will pop up and try to install your USB-500 device. In my case, I simply chose the option to specify a driver from the list of available drivers. The plug-and-play wizard should then show you the USB-500 as an option (probably the only option), so click OK and the driver will be installed.<\/p>\n<p>Once the driver installation and hardware recognition is finished, you can setup, download, or view data from your datalogger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to use Measurement Computing&#8217;s USB-500 software under 64-bit Windows 7. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,9,10],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-thermocouple","tag-usb-500","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukemiller.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}