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well, NSV are out of cause here first because it's a linux distributed system, second because of their own proven merits 😆... The background is this, BTW. We have 17 PCs up and running as of now, expected to grow to 40ish. The main business logic, involving the production of control process variables, is done by tens of Matlab processes, for a variety of reasons. The whole system is a huge data producer (we're talking of TBs per night), but data is well handled by other pipelines. What I'm concerned with here is monitoring/supervision/alerting/remediation. Realtiming is not strict, latencies of the order of seconds could even be tolerated. Logging is a feature of any SCADA, but it's not the main or only goal here; this is why I'd be happy with a side Tango or whatever module dumping to a historical database, but I would not look in the first place into a model "first dump all to local SQLs, then reread them and merge and ponder about the data". I'd think that local, in-memory PV stores, local first level remediation clients, and centralized system health monitoring is the way to go. As for the jenga tower, the mixup of data producers is life, but it is not that EPICS or Tango come without a proven reliability pedigree! And of course I'd chose only one ecosystem, I'm at the stage of choosing which. ETA: as for redis I ran into this. Any experience?

Reviving this thread. I'm looking for a distributed PV solution for a setup of some tens of linux PCs, each one writing some ten of tags at a rate of a few per sec, where the writing will mostly be done by Matlab bindings, and the supervisory/logging/alerting whatnot by clients written in a variety of languages not excluding LV. OSS is not strictly mandatory but essentially part of the culture. I'd would be looking at REDIS, EPICS and Tango-controls (with its annexes Sardana, Taurus) in the first place, but I haven't yet dwelled into them order to compare own merits. In fact I had a project where I interfaced with Tango some years ago, and I contributed cleaning up the official set of LV bindings then. As for EPICS, linux excludes the usual Network Shared Variables stuff (or the EPICS i/o module), but I found for example CALab which looks on spot. Matlab bindings seem available for the three. The ability of handling structured data vs. just double or logical PV may be a discriminant, if one solution is particularly limited in that respect. Has anyone recommendations? Is anyone aware of toolkits I could leverage onto?

Under Linux, it is in the Configure tab of the compile worker, see https://lavag.org/topic/22267-installing-ni-lvfpga-un-ubuntu-20/?do=findComment&comment=144693 . Under Windows? At first sight I haven't found anything relevant in C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\FPGA\CompileWorker .

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019MqkSAE https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000PARmSAO https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000004AfbSAE https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Regarding-the-UI-Thread-Execution-System-and-Multi-threading/td-p/3986192

I have worked in the past on ADAM5000TCP controllers + modules using this nice toolbox, so it is certainly possible. Unfortunately that was years ago, I don't have access to the hardware anymore and I don't remember details, so I can't be specific. What you describe, though, sounds simply like not querying the right IP, or not having set correctly the netmask on your NIC and in the ADAM (was there an option to do that somewhere? In ADAMview?). Assuming, obviously, that it is not because of a faulty ethernet cable (happens, too). I also think that at some point in the Modbus tester there was a small bug like that if you once had a connection refused (e.g. because of querying a nonexistent register) you had to stop and restart the tester in order to establish the connection again, but my memory is vague on that. Maybe Porter corrected that since then.

Frankly, It seems more that you don't know what you want, than that you don't know how to do it on a FPGA.

I don't know exactly how your collection looks like and in what the NI Web Server as it is fills in, but as for linux and serving http I have been positively impressed by this: https://github.com/illuminated-g/lv-http-server In fact I did some preliminary evaluation of it some time ago, and I was planning to build on it for a project which has been delayed. If you look into, I'd be interested in hearing your opinion as well.

your attachment links are broken, could you see if you can correct them?

something along these lines?

For my experience, when it is about lab equipment, each device comes along with its own serial communication command set, if not all together proprietary handling dll. Which creates a job case for a lab automation integrator like I act for, many times. Industry standard bus protocols are implemented only in devices which scale to factory floor. Robotic components, generic remote i/o and plant controllers are the exceptions which come to my mind, as they cater to the generic PLC ecosystem.

When I tooled with programmatic generation of EIOnodes (not that this makes me an expert of them, nor that I remember too much of my trials and errors of then), I got the impression that the little set of EIO scripting VIs is all but complete and bug free, less to say documented. To understand the state cluster was way too esoteric for me, and I wasn't able to use AddChannel. In the end I achieved what I wanted by using ModifyChannels and SpecifyEIONode. Even with that the result was not yet sane, and cherry on the cream, the trick to fix up things automagically was to cut all I created and repaste it on the BD. Meaning to me, that to complete the operation the necessary methods are not exposed in the undocumented set given, but luckily some internal sanity cleanup is enforced when dropping clipboard contents. Maybe my task was easier, because I knew a priori the type of the terminal I wanted to connect to (i.e. U8 or int16 or boolean, determined by the name itself), so I only had to wire a control or an indicator of the right type to the node I created, and not to find out that type.

Oh, thx for the insider information. So there has been a quick followup, comforting to know.

Could someone kindly check and confirm this bug on some other installation? I'm having hard time convincing the correspondent Technical_Support_Engineer_NI_is_now_part_of_Emerson that the bug is reproducible (it is for me on two different Ubuntu 20.04). Subbug 1: (happens with any LV version I tried) cd ~/natinst/LabVIEW\ Data/Shared\ Library/ rm HeaderParserResult.xml touch HeaderParserResult.xml labview64 --> select Tools/Import/Shared Library (.so) --> SIGSEGV Subbug 2: (happens with LV2023Q3f0 and f1) copy the attached file in ~/natinst/LabVIEW\ Data/Shared\ Library/ (to save you from doing the process from scratch) mkdir /tmp/LVimport labview64 --> select Tools/Import/Shared Library (.so) --> Update VIs --> Next --> Next --> ... --> SIGSEGV HeaderParserResult.xml

For the record (self note?) Narrowing down with some more use of ddd. It seems that there is a bug in 2023Q3 at the stage of the generation of the library. There is a segmentation fault in HEADER_PMSave () from /usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-2023-64/resource/headerparser.so apparently when calling xercesc_3_2::IconvGNULCPTranscoder::transcode(char const*, char16_t*, unsigned long, xercesc_3_2::MemoryManager*) () from /usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-2023-64/resource/libnixerces.so.3 which produces an empty file /home/xxxx/natinst/LabVIEW\ Data/Shared\ Library/HeaderParserResult.xml. Once that empty file is created, any other version of labview will segfault when attempting to start the Import wizard. Removing that file allows earlier version of LV to complete the import process. Now if I would understand in which status we are under our SSP, Emerson, SAS transition or whatever I could report it as a bug, and get perhaps a CAR... Btw, when the empty xml is present, the crash occurs, in 2023Q3, at the 12th call of xercesc_3_2::XMLString::transcode(char16_t const*, xercesc_3_2::MemoryManager*) () from /usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-2023-64/resource/libnixerces.so.3 within HEADER_ProjectManagementInitialize () from /usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-2023-64/resource/headerparser.so