Michael Aivaliotis

I don't have access to those. The only way would be to get @Mark Balla to upload them to youtube. I will ping him.

One thing that I was pleasantly surprised by, in the video presentation. Was the announcement of a 6-year partnership (not sure what that means) with the FIRST robotics organization to provide hardware like the roboRIO. I was almost certain that NI abandoned this effort years ago. It's nice to see them reaffirming this relationship. Proof is in the actions, so we'll see. I hope this means more active support to the teams in regards to promoting LabVIEW and not just, ya we will keep selling roboRIO.

That server is not available anymore. To find the videos, you can visit the wiki:

https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/NIWeek

or Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUiBucUImKZERoTzaOtHB5g

Here's the video to the live event that explain's it all:

So NI pushed out their new logo and website. What do you think?

The simple answer is, just wrap all this code in a while loop.

All the videos for VIWeek are live:

https://labviewwiki.org/wiki/VIWeek

1 hour ago, X___ said:

Actually, the nipkg.ini is in \ProgramData\National Instruments\NI Package Manager\Settings\nipkg.ini

I guess nI needs to update that article. 😉

Right, if running LV community, you have everything you need. No need to install anything from VIPM. In fact it will make it worse.

The reason why the log message states Raspberry Pi 2 B (I stated elsewhere), is because the LINX toolkit has an old hardcoded message internally that does not trigger off the actual board model. @Darren, this should be fixed becasue it's confusing.

What is the goal of the communications? Is this a DUT? Or are you just wanting to know when windows is on battery?

On 5/14/2020 at 2:50 PM, gregoryj said:

I also installed TeamViewer on the raspberry pi which makes it a lot more convenient to control the device if you don't have extra monitors and keyboards lying around. 

Yes, I discovered that recently and am using that technique as well.

On 5/12/2020 at 1:21 AM, Wouter said:

So who is currently the creator of OpenG? And is this maybe something I can do myself?

Send an email to: jim.kring@jki.net

On 5/12/2020 at 9:02 AM, gregoryj said:

I thought the RPi needed direct connection to the router to be able to download some updates or something, so that's good to know I can connect to the PC!

Well. yes. It does. That's what the built-in wifi is for. 🙂

16 hours ago, JKSH said:

There's an Idea Exchange entry about this for LabVIEW CG, but it really should extend to NXG too: https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Package-Management-Idea/Install-the-same-package-to-multiple-versions-of-LabVIEW/idi-p/3965419

Well it kinda does apply to both considering NIPM should manage both CG and NXG. I've heard through a reliable source that NI is seriously intent in solving this problem in NIPM for both CG and NXG.

12 hours ago, gregoryj said:

Ok great. My router is far away from my desk, so I'd like to use wifi after the initial set up. Just ordered the raspberry pi and excited to play around with it!

Well, you could plug your computer directly into the raspi port, no router needed. Or purchase a cheap usb to ethernet dongle and add an extra port to your PC. This is what I do for my cRIO work.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M77HMU0/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_AJJUEb7TVD7CS

Was this developed for a customer, with the understanding that you would make it open-source? If it was done under a "work for hire" agreement then there might be a problem of ownership.

38 minutes ago, JKSH said:

^One exception: I have to write a bit more code to get the list of map keys, compared to Get Variant Attribute with an unwired "name" input

The keys can be any type. A for loop will do it easily:

Watch this presentation by @altenbach : 

I've been able to connect and deploy code over wifi. However, I can't use the DNS name over wifi so I use the IP address. I'm sure there's a way to get that working but haven't needed to figure it out yet.

20 hours ago, JKSH said:

I'm now 101% sure; thanks for replying.

Curious, does this change your choice in using them or is it purely academic?

My understanding is that Maps are the same as variant attributes. Except with maps, obviously you don't have the overhead of VariantToData or DataToVariant, when inserting data or looking up data. That can be a huge overhead in some cases. Plus you need support code to prevent variant conversion errors when using the wrong typecast.

Variant attributes are slightly more powerful than Maps because you can insert any type. However, one could argue that this is a characteristic that leads to messy designs. The same variant wire could contain mixed values types within it. Each with its' own type conversion VIs. I think if you've been using variant attributes and it works for you, I don't think you need to rewrite everything. But they definitely need to be considered in new designs. Because you don't have the overhead of creating all the glue VIs for the data conversion, they are frictionless to use and start using out of the box.

Lack of NIWeek content has prompted @Steve Watts, to start VIWeek. See his post here:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Random-Ramblings-on-LabVIEW/VIWeek-Making-Trouble-Again/ba-p/4044162

LabVIEWWiki Page.

On 5/6/2020 at 7:15 AM, Rolf Kalbermatter said:

Seems definitely doable. A bit a shame that they have one seperate API for each hardware board.

@Rolf Kalbermatter, PM me your address and I will send some your way.

5 hours ago, Neil Pate said:

In order to resize an array you have to click on the tiny dot in the middle of the drag handle that only appears if your mouse is leaving the control and is some weird distance way from the border.

In other words, in this picture in order to get the resize drag handle to appear I have to move my mouse over the control, then out a little bit into the middle of space with no visual indication how far out to move it until the horizontal bar appears and then find the tiny dot in the middle and then drag that. 🤮

How could this UX make it through 8 years of development?

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i watched the video. Yikes, ya, that's pure garbage.