SebastienM Posted January 30, 2023 Report Share Posted January 30, 2023 MOD EDIT: Topic split from here. On 1/30/2023 at 5:55 AM, ShaunR said: We shall see. The "Fat Lady" hasn't sung yet and Emerson shareholders seem more than a little unhappy about the takeover. I'm still bullish on this failing despite Dr T's intervention. The more I look at it, the more this seems like taking out the competition as opposed to diversifying and entering new markets. I think System Link was probably the trigger for this as it could, in the future, take Emersons offerings head-on and provide a far more superior top-to-bottom solution given NI's driver, LabVIEW and Test Stand support. Well 2 years ago I saw a demo of System Link by a Ni salesman and that was a huge buggy disaster, absolutely giant failure. I convinced my company to use WATS of Virinco instead : best choice ever. Quote Link to comment
ShaunR Posted January 30, 2023 Report Share Posted January 30, 2023 2 hours ago, SebastienM said: Well 2 years ago I saw a demo of System Link by a Ni salesman and that was a huge buggy disaster, absolutely giant failure. I convinced my company to use WATS of Virinco instead : best choice ever. Well. They are not really equivalent. System Link is, first and foremost, a configuration and asset management tool. Buggy? Maybe (I haven't looked recently) but that could be addressed. WATS is specifically a data analytics tool. WATS has more in common with Diadem than System Link. Quote Link to comment
SebastienM Posted January 30, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2023 2 hours ago, ShaunR said: Well. They are not really equivalent. System Link is, first and foremost, a configuration and asset management tool. Buggy? Maybe (I haven't looked recently) but that could be addressed. WATS is specifically a data analytics tool. WATS has more in common with Diadem than System Link. I have to disagree. Yes WATS is a data analytics tool. But it is also a configuration tool with modules like software, firmware, serial and MAC distribution, and asset management. Quote Link to comment
ShaunR Posted January 31, 2023 Report Share Posted January 31, 2023 1 hour ago, SebastienM said: I have to disagree. Yes WATS is a data analytics tool. But it is also a configuration tool with modules like software, firmware, serial and MAC distribution, and asset management. You have to program all that yourself. Quote Link to comment
SebastienM Posted February 1, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2023 (edited) On 1/31/2023 at 1:03 AM, ShaunR said: You have to program all that yourself. Nope. All these configuration modules are available through the WATS web application. Here an example for software distribution : https://virinco.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/210511203-Getting-started-with-Software-Distribution I have to precise that I'm currently not using these modules but plan to, and that I'm a TestStand user. Maybe we should create another post to talk about WATS. My point here is that I don't trust System Link and I trust less and less NI. Edited February 1, 2023 by SebastienM Quote Link to comment
ShaunR Posted February 1, 2023 Report Share Posted February 1, 2023 1 hour ago, SebastienM said: Maybe we should create another post to talk about WATS. That's probably a good idea and we can get an moderator to move the previous posts over. Quote Link to comment
Jordan Kuehn Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 On 2/1/2023 at 1:27 PM, SebastienM said: Nope. All these configuration modules are available through the WATS web application. Here an example for software distribution : https://virinco.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/210511203-Getting-started-with-Software-Distribution I have to precise that I'm currently not using these modules but plan to, and that I'm a TestStand user. Maybe we should create another post to talk about WATS. My point here is that I don't trust System Link and I trust less and less NI. Does this work for cRIO and RT targets? Raspberry Pi running LV? Quote Link to comment
SebastienM Posted February 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2023 On 2/2/2023 at 8:43 PM, Jordan Kuehn said: Does this work for cRIO and RT targets? Raspberry Pi running LV? As far as I know the WATS client is Windows only. So you would have to install the WATS client on the host side and use the WATS LabVIEW Addon. Quote Link to comment
SebastienM Posted May 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2023 On 2/2/2023 at 8:43 PM, Jordan Kuehn said: Does this work for cRIO and RT targets? Raspberry Pi running LV? My bad, it's possible to have it running for an RT target. Here is the answer from Virinco : 2 main options : Create reports on the RT system or host machine in WSXF, WSTF or WSJF format. Install the WATS Client on a host machine running windows and place the file in one of the folders to transfer (WATS Client installes these converters by default) Submit the file to using rest API https://virinco.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014879119-Post-WSJF Quote Link to comment
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