Interface name that points to remote device?

[archy587]

I have a frame grabber (PXIe 1435) installed in a PXIe 1082 chassis, and a photonfocus camera link camera attached. I am using a laptop with labview 2015 to develop and deploy code to the PXIe over Ethernet.

 In MAX, I can configure the camera and start pulling frames to my laptop.

I can deploy and run the following VI to the PXI and successfully grab frames, and the image is displayed on my laptop.

What I want to do however, is run this code on my laptop, and use a reference name that points to the correct PXIe slot and port. In this case maybe it would be something like "//192.168.1.12::img0::0"

Is there a way to do this? It seems like MAX is doing just that, since it is not deploying any code to the PXIe...

the reason I ask is because the manufacturer provided a labview toolbox for configuring camera parameters over camera link bus, but it uses activeX. So I can't deploy their code to the PXIe, but if I could run their code on my laptop and just point it out to the PXIe, maybe I could configure camera parameters over the network...