Check Running Vi remotelly

[thescar]

Hi all,
i would like to know if there is a way to do this.
I've a software devoloped in Labview ...this software is used to make some experiments in the lab where i work and this Vi usually run for more than 1 day.
All i would like to do is to check from another computer (e.g. at home) how the experiments its going, so i would just like to
view the read values that are shown in the front panel.

Is there a way to do this?

TIA,

Thescar

[mfitzsimons]

Yup, It is called Remote Panels.  I think if you have Developer Suite then you own one license.  if you want more then it will cost you some money.

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/11017 

Let me know if you have any questions.

[mfitzsimons]

More Information.  This is easy to enable and doesn't require code changes.  You will have to configure the access to the PC.  Can sometimes be difficult if you have a firewall.

Five connections included with LabVIEW Professional Development System

One connection included with LabVIEW Full Development System

[TCPlomp]

Besides these good options (you even have control over the VI!!)

There are other options:
Read a log-file via FTP
Read a screenshot via FTP
Email one of these

The funny thing is that windows scripting has the option to send files placed in a specific folder to a specific email adress!! (like an outbox)
I'll ask a colleague for some code!

Ton

[thescar]

thanks for the answers,

but what are the difference between this solutions and the remote desktop of windows??

Thescar.

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you use something like remote desktop or VNC, you have access to everything on the remote pc. It's just like you were logged in locally. With the remote panels, you only have access to the VI. You open your web browser and only the VI's front panel is visible.

[mfitzsimons]

Remote panel should run better because it is moving significantly less data.  This would be better in a low bandwidth situation.  i think you have to have the LV Runtime environment installed on the client (Reduces data traffic)

[_Bryan]

I have done this for work in my lab, it makes life easier.  If you just want to look at the screen info I use the web publishing tool and use the monitor viewing mode with a 15 second delay.  If I check it from home I have to VPN into the company network then enter the address into Internet Explorer and it works like a champ.  If you are running .exe's you will have to add a few lines to the INI file to enable the web server and give the location of the .html file.  There is also an extra step or two when building an exe.

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000YHvWCAW&l=en-US (This is for LV 😎

I have tried the embedded mode, but the lab machines are on a wireless network and it does not always work so well.  Once the program locked up while taking control and I did a remote connection to the PC and found out that labview had an error box that popped up that was not visible from the web interface.

Bryan

[thescar]

Hi all,
here we have a Ni Developer Suite purchased but i'm not sure about the license required for the remote panel to be activated.
So i would like to know on how many computer i can activate the remote panel.
And if there is somewhere a tutorial that explain how to set and check a remote panel for an application already developed.

TIA.

[TiTou]

I use VNC to take control of a distant PC and see my LV application runing on it, it works well.

If you can't have a fixe IP, you can get a dynamic dns redirection on www.dyndns.org 😉

Hope this helps