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We've just got an ABB EtherCAT communication module for ACS880 - FECA-01 and were absolutely sure we won't have any problems creating a LabVIEW control application for it. However, we got stuck from the very beginning. We found practically no examples or instructions on how to create an EtherCAT application from scratch. There are a few examples, mostly related to setting up a project with NI-9144 or similar, but nothing for a custom EtherCAT slave device. I am curious if anyone could provide me with any pointers as to how to set up a project for FECA-01 or point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance.

... to provide us with an upgrade to our software which we bought back in 2017. And this is going on for more than a year now. The story is simple - our company bought a license for NI EMBEDDED CONTROL AND MONITORING SOFTWARE SUITE, USB, SPR17, Rev 007, 2017.06.07 and we successfully downloaded the SP1 upgrade later on. The next year we bought a subscription to LabView 2018 but did not renew it for 2019 and went back to using 2017. Meanwhile our downloaded SP1 files gone missing. "No problem" - we thought - "We'll just go to the NI website and download our SP1." https://www.ni.com/en-ca/support/downloads/software-products/download.embedded-control-and-monitoring-software-suite.html#306390 Not that fast! To download previous versions of LabView you need an active subscription. OK... So, how do you get missing pieces for your software you have a license for if you do not have an active subscription? We contacted NI and their representative Newark and asked them for help... Long story short - we are still waiting for a resolution. Meanwhile, I see no other option but to ask the community for help if NI is so ignorant. Maybe some of the members can share their LabView 2017 SP1 installation files? I don't think it will be a copyright violation or something - what can you do with it without the license? In any case, I would greatly appreciate any input and, maybe, perhaps an advise or a comment. https://www.ni.com/en-ca/shop/software/products/embedded-control-and-monitoring-software-suite.html We are looking for: 1. LabView2017SP1-WinEng 2. 2017SP1RealTime-WinEng 3. 2017SP1FPGAModule-WinEng 4. 2017SP1XILINXCompilationTools Best Regards.

The task is simple - call Florence virtual keyboard on a CompactRIO programmatically but I must be overlooking something as I cannot get it to work... I have Florence installed with opkg and I also made a little bash script to call it. When I execute it from CompactRIO terminal - everything works but if I try to call the script from my application using SytemExec VI - I get the echo output from my script and the error code is 0 but the virtual keyboard does not start. Seems like a trivial problem but I am stuck here... Can someone explain to me what I've done wrong here and/or, maybe, suggest a better way of doing it, please?