What is your actual job?

[ChrisK88]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

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@ChrisK88 wrote:

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I am so excited that LV can target RPi. I can't wait to also find an excuse to start buying tons of Pi Zeros for $5 

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As far as I know the LINX toolkit doesn't support the zero, and the LabVIEW compiler for Pi is still in beta, but I wouldn't know what support it has for the zero.  I think the targeted support at the moment is the Pi 2 or 3.

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Ah shucks! We had our local NI rep here today for a user group meeting and he mentioned the support of LINX to Arduino and RPi so I just got overly excited without looking into it.. way to burst my bubble bro! just kidding, would have found out the hard way, so thank you!

[tst]

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@ChrisK88 wrote:

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Ah shucks! We had our local NI rep here today for a user group meeting and he mentioned the support of LINX to Arduino and RPi so I just got overly excited without looking into it.. way to burst my bubble bro! just kidding, would have found out the hard way, so thank you!

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For some futher bubble bursting, the LINX option currently works only on LV 2014 SP1 (possibly just the home version, but I'm guessing it would work on any 2014 SP1) and can't be used in any commercial capacity.

[Hooovahh]

Right, LINX is just LabVIEW 2014 SP1 and for noncommercial use right now.  A 3rd party company has been working on their own version of deploying LabVIEW code to a Pi and is talked about here:

https://www.tsxperts.com/labviewforraspberrypi/

It is likely not free, but can be used commercially, and you can even plug a monitor into it and see the front panel of your running VI.  But it is in beta, and development on it has slowed a lot, maybe due to other work, or maybe due to the fact that NI decided to compete by working on add support to LINX for Pi after TSXperts announced theirs.

[ChrisK88]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

Right, LINX is just LabVIEW 2014 SP1 and for noncommercial use right now.  A 3rd party company has been working on their own version of deploying LabVIEW code to a Pi and is talked about here:

https://www.tsxperts.com/labviewforraspberrypi/

It is likely not free, but can be used commercially, and you can even plug a monitor into it and see the front panel of your running VI.  But it is in beta, and development on it has slowed a lot, maybe due to other work, or maybe due to the fact that NI decided to compete by working on add support to LINX for Pi after TSXperts announced theirs.

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Treasure troves of information, thanks guys. I could care less about commercial use at this moment, I just want some cool home automation and monitoring, just tinkering around kind of stuff. I bought a Pi Zero for honestly $7 and told myself this is a good time to sharpen the python skills, but when I heard our rep talk about Arduino and Pi I just got overly excited.

Back on topic:

Just signed myself up for my Masters in Electrical Engineering focusing on electromagnetic fields and waves.. funnnnn stuff

[RTSLVU]

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@tst wrote:

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@ChrisK88 wrote:

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Ah shucks! We had our local NI rep here today for a user group meeting and he mentioned the support of LINX to Arduino and RPi so I just got overly excited without looking into it.. way to burst my bubble bro! just kidding, would have found out the hard way, so thank you!

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For some futher bubble bursting, the LINX option currently works only on LV 2014 SP1 (possibly just the home version, but I'm guessing it would work on any 2014 SP1) and can't be used in any commercial capacity.

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LabVIEW Home Edition is frozen on LabVIEW 2014.

LINX is a free toolkit/Addon that supports LabVIEW 2011 through 2016 and there are no commercial restrictions on LINX use, at least none I could find. I know it only says through 2015 but I just installed LINX in  2016 using VIPM and it seems to work fine.

LINX by Digilent/LabVIEW MakerHub
Interface With Common Embedded Platforms
Supported LabVIEW Versions:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Operating System/Platform:
Linux, MacOS, Windows

[tst]

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@RTSLVU wrote:

LabVIEW Home Edition is frozen on LabVIEW 2014.

LINX is a free toolkit/Addon that supports LabVIEW 2011 through 2016 and there are no commercial restrictions on LINX use, at least none I could find...

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I was refering specifically to LINX 3.0, which can deploy embedded code which will run on the Pi and the BBB and has the restrictions I mentioned. I never looked too closely to see exactly what the different restrictions are and where they apply, since I didn't use it. You can see more details in this discussion, probably with links to the documentation - http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/LINX-3-0-LabVIEW-for-BeagleBone-Black-and-Raspberry-Pi-2-3/m-p/32787...

[JÞB]

"Dishwasher". Ditch-digger", "Vehicle repair specialist" , "Meter-Reader" and "Train Control Information Managment inforcer".

All of witch I've done using LabVIEW!  Ain't got no degree from nowhere.

[Ben]

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@JÞB wrote:

"Dishwasher". Ditch-digger", "Vehicle repair specialist" , "Meter-Reader" and "Train Control Information Managment inforcer".

All of witch I've done using LabVIEW!  Ain't got no degree from nowhere.

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Do not take any shame in that!

Given the choice between someone that knows what they are doing but does not have a degree vs someone that does have a degree that CLAIMS they know something... I'll go with the one that has a track record.

Just my 2 cents,

Ben

[ChrisK88]

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@Ben wrote:

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@JÞB wrote:

"Dishwasher". Ditch-digger", "Vehicle repair specialist" , "Meter-Reader" and "Train Control Information Managment inforcer".

All of witch I've done using LabVIEW!  Ain't got no degree from nowhere.

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Do not take any shame in that!

Given the choice between someone that knows what they are doing but does not have a degree vs someone that does have a degree that CLAIMS they know something... I'll go with the one that has a track record.

Just my 2 cents,

Ben

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Kudos to that!

In my experience, I ask the people WITH experience the questions and look to them for advice, regardless of title/degree. Many of my mentors are guys who have been working in the industry for 35+ years with no degree, yet they are far more knowledgeable than most principal engineers with a million titles on their signature.

[Moe419]

Sorry to hijack this post, but how do you post a question or topic for question?