NI-IMAQ for USB and usb Cameras

[Adam_H]

Hi vaibhav,

I have some bad news unfortunately.  Our vision software does not support Linux.  You will most likely run into all kinds of issues trying to get it to work.  In addition LabVIEW is not officially supported in Ubuntu.  We have had customers in the past get it working however like the vision software you will most likely run into some problems.

[Vaibhav]

Hi Adam!

Thanks for the message!

I did some search on the internet last month and finally got the Labview installed on it successfully. Now, was planning to work with Vision on that, and was going to install Vision Assistant on it, to get the functionalities on it. But somehow, I have problems with connecting the camera.  And for now, as I have approached the deadline while struggling with several issues, I am just going to make the application withou the linux labview part. It won't be somuch interesting now, though.

I have one more issue if you can help, regarding importing the webservices. http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=318969&jump=true

Once again, I have studied the steps for using webservices in LabVIEW http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4728.

Thanks!

[Vaibhav]

So your message was somehow timely, for me to decide firmly that I will not spend time on Linux machine for these days.

Thanks again!

[Adam_H]

Hi vaibhav,

Since the other question is already being worked on in another thread I am going to let it stay there. 

[Vaibhav]

Hi Adam!

Well, the intention was if you could forward the query to related experts in NI.

Thank anyways!

[Vaibhav]

Hi Everyone!

Finally, I am back with the results of my experiments about building Installer for an application, which includes capturing video (via USB camera or inbuilt laptop camera) and transmitting it to over the internet/intranet through DataSocket, and finally to receive the audio/video on a client computer.

As per my knowledge now, the LabVIEW Run-time Engine 8.2.1, if you have obtained from ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/softlib/labview/labview_runtime/8.2.1/windows/LabVIEW821RuntimeEngine.exe, includes many products like Datasocket, VariableEngine, Deployable License manager among others. However, the Runtime Engine itself, is the same 8.2 runtime engine.

For my previously mentioned problem, where I had to manually install LVRTE8.2.1 even if I included it in the installer, I tried to install the LVRTE8.2.1 exe several times, each time with different combinations of the products, to find out the real "culprit".

Finally I found that "DataSocket" has tobe installed separately. Interestingly, DataSocket was the product I was least expecting to be included in the installer at all. Because I assumed that it is needed only at the compute where datasocket server is running and the functionalities for DataSocket open/write are included in the LVRTE. But now, I am feeling more acquainted towards the environment.

Then, I made several versions of the installer, each time excluding/including different combinations of the products, but keeping DataSocket, LVRTE and VisionRTE, and they all worked. So the conclusion was to include "NI DataSocket" separately, in the "Additional Installers" to make the setup "complete". I suppose this is the bug in the Installer Builder, because the DataSocket is included in the LVRTE8.2.1.

One suggestion for further improvement: Is it possible to allow the users/programmers to double click (or some other way) to the products in "NI Installers to Include" in the "Additional Installers" category, and let them select each sub-product manually? This way, we can make sure which products will be installed (avoiding any possible bugs) and also, reduce the Setup size by removing unnecessary components. Ofcourse, some components like Licensing features, must be kept without the programmer's intereference.

Thank you all for your support!