Remote Vision like remote vision

[instrumento]

I can run most of my code remotely on machine 1 by starting the VISA server on machine 2, to which all the equipment  is connected, and allowing machine 1 to connect to the VISA server on machine 2.  Can I do the same if, as part of the equipment, I have a camera?  My camera doesn't show up on the VISA list, it's not a VISA instrument, obviously ...

[Mathan]

How your camera is connected to the system? I mean what type of interface it is? USB or Firewire?

[instrumento]

Actually in some systems it is USB and some others it is Firewire.  Access in the remote system is through a DLL I wrote and the vendor's DLL, that import the image into LabVIEW.  Which interface is used is hidden from me by the vendor's DLL.  I could write and start my own vision server on the remote machine, but was just wondering if LabVIEW provided a way to do that, as I see the something called an IMAQ Remote Vision Server is started on the system, not sure what it accomplishes.

[JeffL]

Hi instrumento,

In what form is the image in LabVIEW (array or other type)? Does the vendor use the IMAQ tools (Image control type, etc.?).

To see an image remotely, you could make use of remote panels or perhaps transmit the images over a networked shared variable. That will probably require converting it to an array or to a variant.