Need some pointer on setting up online lab

[TomLe]

Hello Everyone,

I’m sorry if this is not the right place to ask. I’m currently trying to help a teacher set up a GUI for online learning lab. Let say we have our simple circuit set up on the NI Elvis III, and a user want to change a voltage from 5V to 12V to see how the circuit change. Do we have an existing API or a function call for this to call it from outside of LabView or the Elvis? Or do I need to write a program for it?

I also know that NI have Multisim for circuit simulation and can have it connect to the Elvis.

I’m still very inexperience and don’t know much about LabView and the NI Elvis III. If any of you can give me some pointers, help, or learning resources relate to this, I would be very appreciated.

Thank You for reading.

[Bob_Schor]

Find (or hire) a LabVIEW expert (or at least an experienced Developer).  You want someone "on hand" to do this for you.

Bob Schor

[cbutcher]

I suspect you'll need to write a program (or at least, several VIs) and if you want to make them available online, you might want to consider using a LabVIEW Web Service.

This isn't a trivial undertaking (it may not be extraordinarily difficult, but if you're inexperienced with LabVIEW I'd expect you'd need to set aside a decent amount of time to learn quite a few different things...)

As such, you might consider finding someone with more experience if you're in a hurry (although I'm always one to dive headfirst into things myself, and probably I could get more done faster with experienced "hired help", as it were...)

If you want to do it yourself, I'd suggest first writing the LabVIEW program to control the ELVIS locally, testing it yourself and making sure it does what you want, and then reading the tutorial I linked above to learn about publishing a VI (or set of VIs) to the internet.