is there any daq-card-emulation? wanna avoid changing my vi when transfering from pc with cards (pci6071E and pci6713) to a pc without.

[heinrich 272]

i am working w labview 5 on a intel pentium (windows nt). my control pc has 2 i/o-cards: 6071E and 6713. the pc is located i a noisy lab w/o any aircondition. for this reason i want to improve my vi on a different pc. but i cannot buy more daq-cards. for this reason, i´d like to know whether anybody had a similar problem and maybe programmed a emulator (as used in former times: you wanted to run matlab but you did not have 80287 math processor - you used an emulator to pretend the existence of this unit).
thank you very much in advance
heinrich
mailto:schieferstein@lrz.tum.de

[Lab Viewer]

Hi heinrich,
if you have both computers (desk and lab) in a good network, you can use remote desktop applications in order to access the lab computer. If the network it's not so performant, you can map the HDD of the lab comp. as a network drive, edit VIs with your desk comp. and use remote desktop just to run them in the lab.

[heinrich 272]

thank you very much. i already tried both. using vnc is too slow. in fact, i even wanna avoid using the network. wanna edit when travelling or at home w/o being online.

thanks a lot, i didnt erpect such a fast reaction to my request 🙂

[Albert.Geven]

Another possibility is to have NIdaq installed on your system without any IOcard.
I always build wrapper vi's at the appropriate level and with one global boolean (simulateIO) I control in the wrapper vi if the real DAQ code or the simulation is called.

[Filipe A.]

Heinrich;

I believe a good solution for your issue, is, as you have two machines and one already has some DAQ boards, to take advantage of the NI-DAQ RDA (remote device access).
You can configure a RDA server, and create some virtual channels on your Lab PC, and access those virtual channels, remotely, by your test PC. By doing that, you can run a VI acquiring data remotely, using the DAQ boards on a different machine.
Hope this helps.
Filipe
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[heinrich 272]

THIS IS NOT A ANSWER BUT A COMMENT (to my own question): thank you vrey much, folks, for your kind comments and hints. in fact i´d prefer to work absolutely indepentend of our lan (at home, at the beach 😉 e.g.). i am looking for an emulation of my daq-hardware or sth enlse which enables me editing "offline", copying to my lab-pc and so on, without exchanging any vi or sub-vi.
heinrich