## Phidget Common.lvlib:PhidgetOpen.vi

Opens the Phidget channel. The specific channel to be opened can be specified by setting any of the following properties:

- DeviceSerialNumber
- DeviceLabel
- Channel
- HubPort
- IsHubPortDevice
- ServerName
- IsLocal
- IsRemote

`open()` will return immediately, with the attachment process proceeding asynchronously. Use the Attach event or Attached property to determine when the channel is ready to use.

Device Support:

| millis

| error in error in can accept error information wired from VIs previously called.

| status status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred. Right-click the error in indicator on the front panel and select Explain Error or Explain Warning from the shortcut menu for more information about the error.

| code code is the error or warning code. Right-click the error in indicator on the front panel and select Explain Error or Explain Warning from the shortcut menu for more information about the error.

| source source string describes the origin of the error or warning. Right-click the error in indicator on the front panel and select Explain Error or Explain Warning from the shortcut menu for more information about the error.

| Device Info Information required to specify which Phidget to open

| Serial Number The device serial number

| Channel The channel index

| Port The hub port index

| Phidget ID Device # Identification

| IsHubPort The hub port mode (True if the channel is a hub port itself)

| Attached? Returns TRUE is the device successfully attached, or FALSE otherwise

| error out error out passes error or warning information out of a VI to be used by other VIs.

| status status is TRUE (X) if an error occurred or FALSE (checkmark) to indicate a warning or that no error occurred. Right-click the error out indicator on the front panel and select Explain Error or Explain Warning from the shortcut menu for more information about the error.

| code code is the error or warning code. Right-click the error out indicator on the front panel and select Explain Error or Explain Warning from the shortcut menu for more information about the error.

| source source string describes the origin of the error or warning. Right-click the error out indicator on the front panel and select Explain Error or Explain Warning from the shortcut menu for more information about the error.

| Device Out Same as Device In

| Serial Number Return The device serial number