Compact RIO not appearing in MAX

[John Rich]

I have installed LabVIEW, LabVIEW RT, and LabVIEW FPGA on a new PC running Windows XP Professional SP2.  I am trying to port my LabVIEW development to a faster computer.  When I open MAX no remote systems are available.  This is strange because I can access and run programs on the RT controller from LabVIEW.  I just can't access the FPGA.  I know that that FPGA is functional because I can see and access it from another computer on the network.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

[Richard P.]

Hi John,

Which components of NI-RIO are installed on this PC?

[John Rich]

Everything except for LabVIEW 7.0 support and RTX support is installed.

[jeff_scharpf]

Hi John,

This happens alot to me and the solution I found was to go into Measurement and Automation Explorer, Software, NI-VISA, and check the settings there. Your RT controller should be listed by IP.

Make sure it's checked, and then also run the VISA server.

I have no idea what this does or why it's so terribly documented but it works for me each time.

Jeff

[John Rich]

I've done this and it still doesn't work.  I think that I had already added my RT controller IP, but I know that it's checked and made sure that the VISA server was running.  I even rebooted Windows (by the way, I'm running Windows XP Pro).  I haven't tried rebooting the RT controller, but I'll go and do that now.

Any other suggestions?

[jeff_scharpf]

I have to reboot my CompactRIO all the time. It just "drops" off of the network. I'm not sure why but after a few hours I can no longer connect to it, so I pull the power and reconnect.

I've already sent it back (it was recalled for this problem) and they returned it but it's the same.

So far I'm not that impressed with the CompactRIO.

I'm sorry for your troubles. I would be interested to know if rebooting the CRIO fixes  your problem. At least then I'll know mine isn't the only one.

Jeff

[John Rich]

Rebooting the CompactRIO did not fix the problem.  I really don't understand what's going on because it works fine from my other PC

[wesramm]

I am in the middle of trying to get a cRIO 9103 / cRIO-9004 system up and running with my computer.  I am having similar, if not equivalent problems.  One thing to try, make sure that the VISA server on both the Local Machine (MAX\Software\VISA server) and the remote device (MAX\REMOTE DEVICES..) are listening on the same IP port.  This caused me like 3 hours of problems.

Wes

[John Rich]

The IP address is correct (it works from LabVIEW to connect to the RT controller) but the RT controller (and therefore the cRIO) does not show up in Max under Remote Systems.

[Richard P.]

Hi All,

It sounds like the best step is to check your installation of NI-RIO. There are two separate installers for NI-RIO:  One for embedded systems, and one for R-Series.  The embedded system version allows you to talk to CompactRIO controllers.

  The only way to get RIO for embedded systems is to install from the CD that came with the RIO controller, this version is not downloadable from the web. However, after installing the embedded system version you can upgrade to  RIO 1.3.1 from the web, which will include RIO for cRIO upgrade to RIO 1.3.1

Your software tree on the local machine (PC) should finally contain these entries:

LabVIEW 7.x
    (child items)
    Real-Time
    FPGA

NI-RIO
    (child item)
    LabVIEW RT for cRIO-900x