Starting and Running a VI from another computer

[Muttee]

Dear All,

I have made a laser microscope labview module that controls a motion stage on one computer and controls and image acquisition system on the other computer. The two computers are connected to WAN via a same router. I am able to ping to each of them via the other. My module runs a user-friendly labview VI on the image acquisition computer that sends updated G-Code files to the motion stage computer which is running an automated VI that receives the G-Code files and sends them automatically to the motion stage. This allows total control of the system via just one computer (image acquisition one). Furthermore, i want to start, run and close the automated VI running on the motion stage computer via the user-friendly VI running on the image acquisition computer. I did some research and found out how to use Active-X and Automation start for this but in my case, it is a VI not an executable. Please let me know if anyone has any suggestions.

I do have a full developmental system from labview but could not locate the application builder so i can make an executable from my VIs.

Any help will be highly appreciated,

Thanks,

Muttee Sheikh

Photonics Research Group,

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of Toronto,

Canada

[RavensFan]

I think you would want to use VI server to launch the VI on the other computer.  Here is a link to a message thread discussing the same thing.  One message in that thread had a link to a tutorial.

[Muttee]

I tried this method, However it only works if LabVIEW is already running, otherwise it gives me a timeout error....

[RavensFan]

Then you'll just have to make sure that Labview is running on the remote computer.

If necessary, put it in the startup folder.

[Muttee]

Will it work if I use Active X Automation Open to start Labview library on the remote machine? and then run the VI?

- Thanks again