ProfiBus card for LabVIEW, nowhere to be found anymore ?

[MartinP]

It seems a bit difficult to continue using ProfiBus communication under LabVIEW these days.

National Instruments does not sell the ProfiBus cards for computers any more;

https://www.ni.com/en-no/support/model.pci-profibus.html

This because KUNBUS and NI stopped their partnership in 2021.

NI: "We advice our customers to refer to KUNBUS for further guidance on choosing PROFIBUS solutions. I know

it's hard to hear but hope you are not much impacted by this change. 
There have been an official communication from NI on obsolescence of the PROFIBUS HW including

the standard support (repair, replacement, calibration and technical support) by Dec 31, 2022. "

It seems KUNBUS does not have any alternatives here.

And those who are selling NI hardware now does not have any KUNBUS cards in stock any more.

Even though some claimes they do.

Earlier in we used cards from Hilscher, that had a different driver interface towards LabVIEW.

We have a bunch of these old cards , but they seems a bit out of date for todays LabVIEW,

I'm not sure how good they would work.

Does anybody have a good suggestion on how to continue using ProfiBus towards

LabVIEW on ordinary Windows computers ?

Martin 

[Mads]

We  use FNLs (Fieldbus Network Link modules) from COMSOFT (we wanted to separate the IO-hardware from the PC anyway so having a networked interface was nice), but I see those are obsolete as well now....

There are similar solutions still available it seems though. KUNBUS has gateways that might fit the bill:

https://www.kunbus.com/modular-gateways

[rolfk]

Another option might be a communication card from Siemens itself. They are the designer of Profibus after all.

https://mall.industry.siemens.com/mall/en/ww/Catalog/Product/?mlfb=6GK1562-2AA00

Unfortunately they seem to be on the retreating path too. While they still sell the hardware and the driver for it, they EOLed recently the SDK package that would be needed to develop a driver in other languages than what they support out of the box. And of course LabVIEW support is not a standard offering by them.