Having a remote front panel in a non RT OS displaying data from a LV RT target

[Ray.R]

I tried to have a short title...

Here's the deal.

An application written for a WSN Gateway or cRIO, using LabVIEW-RT.  (There's no alternative to that, is there ????)

The application acquires data and stores it.

The client may want to monitor the progress or the acquired data many miles from the data acquisition system.

I was thinking of using a remote panel over the internet to look at the data.  The client's PC would be running windoze.  Probably 7 or XP.

Can this be done?  From what I read, it appears that you need a RT license / RTOS for a remote panel.  Doesn't make sense to me, but that's all I found so far.  Maybe I didn't do a proper search... 

Alternatively, I could just send emails with the data which could be viewed using another application..  But I am curious about using a remote panel over a web browser talking to a cRIO or WSN Gateway.

[Ben]

Unless I miss-understand, you can just configure a VI FP for the web-server and it can be viewed from wherever the network connectivity allows.

The release notes for 2011 (I think) siad that you don't have to pay for licenses anymore.

Verify with NI but that is what I think will work.

Ben

[nathand]

The RT target needs a license (which you should have already, since it's running RT).  No license is required on the machine used to view the panel.  There may be a restriction on the number of remote viewers that can connect to the RT target simultaneously, and that number may depend on the license on the RT target.  The cRIO will happily serve front panels over a network, assuming all intermediate firewalls are properly configured to allow through the correct ports.  I have no idea what a WSN Gateway is.

[Ray.R]

Thanks guys... 

That's what I thought.   I'm the one who must have misread the information from the Knowledge Base.

I just wanted to make sure I was not telling the client something other than the reality.

I would expect only one access to the remote Front Panel.

RayR