Wifi with raspberry Pi 4

[taestygecko]

Thank you for this, it was close but no cigar.

There is unfortunately no drop down tab for Raspberry Pi and it is required that the RPI is configured via the target and not the wizard

[billko]

It might be worth just bricking the RPI and starting from scratch.  It's not that difficult.  It feels like there is something wrong with the installation.  Remember I said I had to do this a couple of times before I got it right?

[taestygecko]

ok, so are you telling me you were able to connect a RPI via WIFI to labVIEW without an Ethernet cable?

[billko]

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@taestygecko wrote:

ok, so are you telling me you were able to connect a RPI via WIFI to labVIEW without an Ethernet cable?

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Yes.  In fact, I just created a new WiFi connection and found the target in LabVIEW by IP address.  I even started a deployment, but LabVIEW complained that the LV version on the target was different from the project - which is appropriate.

I then tried to connect to a purposefully incorrect target IP address and it timed out.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@taestygecko wrote:

ok, so are you telling me you were able to connect a RPI via WIFI to labVIEW without an Ethernet cable?

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Isn't WIFI always without an Ethernet cable?

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@taestygecko wrote:

Thank you for this, it was close but no cigar.

There is unfortunately no drop down tab for Raspberry Pi and it is required that the RPI is configured via the target and not the wizard

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I doubt there's a way to enable this though the LabVIEW project target...

If wifi is off on the target, why not enable it on the target? Alternatively, I'm sure it can be enabled though a remote shell if you really don't want to do it on the device.  

[billko]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

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@taestygecko wrote:

Thank you for this, it was close but no cigar.

There is unfortunately no drop down tab for Raspberry Pi and it is required that the RPI is configured via the target and not the wizard

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I doubt there's a way to enable this though the LabVIEW project target...

If wifi is off on the target, why not enable it on the target? Alternatively, I'm sure it can be enabled though a remote shell if you really don't want to do it on the device.  

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This is exactly what I did.  I used a VNC to log into it and painlessly configure the WiFi.  I used the standard RPI install and it has a graphical interface.  (I don't recommend using the standard RPI image though; it's a PITA to get running with LINX.)

[taestygecko]

Ok so this was something I have not tried as I am running a buster version of RPI...

I may try and reinstall the desktop OS and I am presuming you used the 32 Bit install for RPI OS?

[billko]

I think the main thing is that the standard RPI image takes over the whole hard drive, but LINX wants to be installed into its own partition or something like that.  If you can resize the OS partition and add another one, I think that's what LINX wants.  It's a looong time ago that I did this, and frankly I was so traumatized that I fail to remember exactly what I did.  😉

[taestygecko]

I will have to try this out and see if it works or not