Laptop (with 802.11b PCMCIA wireless card running LabVIEW 6.1) and desktop system (with 802.11b USB wireless card running LabVIEW 6.1) to send commands (from laptop) to start and stop LabVIEW programs (running on desktop) and download data (from desktop)?If I understand you correctly, you would like to be able to remotely run/monitor/control a VI over a wireless network and process/log the data to your machine.
To do this you have several options including LabVIEWs Web Publishing Tool, Remote Front Panels, Datasockets, VI Server. The first two will allow you to monitor or control a VI on another machine on your network. Datasockets are a method of easily sharing data of the network. And the VI Server will allow you to expose certain VI's on you desktop machine to be run by you remote connection from your laptop.
To get the data on your machine you could use ftp to transfer the file from the desktop to your laptop or stream the data using any of several differnt protocols support by LabVIEW (TCP/IP, UDP, Datasoc
ket). You could also have the desktop VI log to a shared directory on your laptop. When choosing one of these methods you will want to take into consideration the performance required by your system.
Here are some links for more information on some of these tools:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/learningcenter.nsf/03f7c60f17aad210862567a90054a26c/13943dd7e59d462b862568e0004d692a?OpenDocument
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/E4E311FA046EE24586256B1F0074F39D?opendocument
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/1785A9030B2FA7FB86256869007B2EE8?opendocument
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/2d17d611efb58b22862567a9006ffe76/e789515b9976253786256b1f007e039b?OpenDocument
I hope this is helpful.
