Using remote acccess front panel with Macs

[PhysGuy]

Hi,

We are running some remote access labs for Physics courses at Kent State
University, and would like to be able to use the NI Remote Front Panel tools.  
In understand that we need the LabVIEW Run Time Engine, and also the Vision Run
Time Engine, as our VIs use webcams so students can see what is happening.

We have the system working with Windows machines and Internet Explorer, but the
last time I called for help, there was no Vision Run Time Engine for Macs.

Is that still the case?  If so is there any workaround so that Mac users could
access the remote panels through a browser?

Thanks for any guidance you could offer.

Jon Secaur

Physics, Kent State University

[Erik-S]

Hello Jon,

Unfortunately, there is still not a Vision RTE available for Mac. The easiest work around would probably be to use a web service to acquire a screen shot from your Windows PC and post it to a subpanel on your Mac program. Here is a link on web services in LabVIEW:

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview/page/tutorial-creating-and-publishing-a-labview-web-ser...

Another method would be network streams. You can convert the image to an array or png and then send it over the network to your Mac. Here is a link explaining network streams.

https://www.ni.com/en/shop/labview/lossless-communication-with-network-streams--components--archite....

-Erik S

[PhysGuy]

Hi Erik,

Thanks for the great tips!  Perhaps the Web Services idea would work for PC users as well, as apparently users would not need to download and install run-time engines.  That would be a great boon for the students taking the lab, as they are typically not science or computer science students, and I would like to make the experience as simple as possible.

I appreciate the help!

Thanks,

Jon

[restrepo]

I had the same problem and I proposed a solution in the following forum

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Save-image-from-picturebox/td-p/870998/highlight/true/page/3