Replacement Labview discs

[Alan Anderson]

Expand your definition of "local" and you'll find plenty of Indianapolis area teams who might be able to help you.

[ratdude747]

I defined it as within the louisville area.

I know about Indy... that was my next place to look for help (Lafayette as well- I have former teamates and mentors up there).

[WizenedEE]

As soon as we got ours, we made about 10 copies. Is it possible to get labview for other operating systems as well?

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by WizenedEE

Is it possible to get labview for other operating systems as well?

Long Answer: You can get LabVIEW for Windows, OSX, or Linux. However, FIRST's version of LabVIEW (including WPILib and whatever changes they make to the program) are Windows-only. With a little work, you could probably get OSX/Linux LabVIEW to work with FRC robots (installing libraries and making the necessary modifications, whatever they may be), but that would be a lot of work, and I don't know how that would work out, not having tried it.

Short Answer: Yes, but not FIRST only supports LabVIEW for Windows

[WizenedEE]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

Long Answer: You can get LabVIEW for Windows, OSX, or Linux. However, FIRST's version of LabVIEW (including WPILib and whatever changes they make to the program) are Windows-only. With a little work, you could probably get OSX/Linux LabVIEW to work with FRC robots (installing libraries and making the necessary modifications, whatever they may be), but that would be a lot of work, and I don't know how that would work out, not having tried it.

Short Answer: Yes, but not FIRST only supports LabVIEW for Windows

But can I get it for free

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

Long Answer: You can get LabVIEW for Windows, OSX, or Linux. However, FIRST's version of LabVIEW (including WPILib and whatever changes they make to the program) are Windows-only. With a little work, you could probably get OSX/Linux LabVIEW to work with FRC robots (installing libraries and making the necessary modifications, whatever they may be), but that would be a lot of work, and I don't know how that would work out, not having tried it.

Short Answer: Yes, but not FIRST only supports LabVIEW for Windows

nope. there are no mac/linux drivers for the cRIO. you could edit the code but deployment would be out of the question.

anyway, I requested a new disc from first, which worked.

The disc came in this week, I got a hold of it today.

good news: I can get my laptop on labview for tomorrow's training

bad news: NI's site is down this weekend and I do not have the downloadable files on hand (drivers station, FRC update).

anybody happen to have the files on archive somewhere? I would like to get this working for tomorrow afternoon.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by ratdude747

anybody happen to have the files on archive somewhere? I would like to get this working for tomorrow afternoon.

Most, if not all, of the updates should be found here under the "Systems" folder. If it's missing some, let me know and I'll see if I can hunt them down for you.

[ratdude747]

too late. the NI site is up again.

I wonder if the disc they sent is some beta... I noticed there were some new features that I did not remember existing... like activex/.net front panel blocks. I installed the utilities update, the labview update, and the driver station update. Also, the team laptops and my old laptop ran xp, while my new one runs vista (32 bit, home premium) and I plan to upgrade it to 7 pro 64 bit.


I also made 3 spares of the disc (and the next time I have the disc, I will make a .iso). I printed labels with the serial no. that i put on the disc sleeves... the idea will be to loan out the spares for when members want labview on their personal laptop (this recent install is my 2nd laptop to get it) and keep the master locked away in the back of the filing cabinet, only used if a copy goes MIA or is destroyed (and the .iso is not in a usable location).