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Apologies for the bad example. GrokAI emphasized the importance of closing .net references which I blatently disregarded

Example of camera grab using the Pylon .net API. (Credits: GrokAI)

Asked GrokAI and got a working example...

Hi Yair - Would you mind sharing some example code to grab an image using the Pylon .net interface?

Or this...

A customer asked me to create a powerpoint explaining the advantages of LabVIEW. While putting together the practical rationales, just for grins I asked Chatgpt to create a presentation explaining the philosophy of LabVIEW in a Zen sort of way. Here is what it came up with. Zen_of_LabVIEW.pdf

The Gpower IOLink toolkit looks great but the cost is prohibitive. For $1000 I was inclined to give it a go but I would never saddle up to such a cost on a subscription basis and as you said they are also requiring a annual runtime license. What a disaster that would be for any of my customers when their critical systems stop working on Jan 1st. until they pony up their subscription fees. I think like you I will just dip my toes in the RESTful JSON waters and then see what it will take to generalize it.

Now that we are NI/Emerson I would expect to see more connectivity in the automation sector. It seems that IOLink is a dominate communications standard that would be a good candidate for support in LabVIEW. IFM is one company that makes a ton of really cool sensors and networking hubs that are largely IOLink capable. It should be relatively straightforward to develop a restful IOLink interface using GET/POST with JSON formatted commands. I am planning on doing this and was wondering if anyone has gone down this path before. https://www.ifm.com/us/en/shared/technologies/io-link/select-products/product-configuration-pages/dataline-tee-cable-wiring

What! Does lvserial acutally support regex termination strings? How is that accomplished? Is that capability built into an interrupt service routine or is it just simulated in a polling loop under the hood?

This one slipped under the radar but I think is finally a viable starting point for an open source TestStand Lite that was imagined many years ago. https://github.com/Tom-Lu/TestLite

Anyone know what ever happened to the late great LuaVIEW framework. I used it many moons ago and have an application for a scripting language that interoperates well with LV.

Wondering if anyone has tried to use this LUA wrapper library. It looks very promising and would be a great open source scripting tool for the LV community. https://github.com/antonie-coetzee/GLue See attached pdf documentation MLua Help.pdf

Later this afternoon I plan on remoting into the server. Could you suggest a specific MSC runtime to try?

Greetings, a long running LV 2018/2020 app was recently migrated to run on windows server 2019 and am finding that I can no longer initialize the python script server. I have verified that my python 2.7.6 (32 bit) is installed correctly (BTW, it coexists with python 3.1 which needs to be on the machine for another non LV app). I have tried the usual things like running as admin, checking folder permissions, etc to no avail. Any ideas?