roboRio / LabView 2014 compatibility

[adammiller3122]

Originally Posted by Doug Norman

You won't be able to target an 8-slot in LabVIEW for FRC 2015. The NI-RIO driver will no longer support it.

But yes, you will still be able to use your 8-slot with LabVIEW for FRC 2014, since that license will not expire.

That said, I expect FIRST will require the roboRIO for 2015 competition.

If I remember right, FIRST has confirmed that they will require roboRIO for 2015.

[adammiller3122]

Originally Posted by Doug Norman

You won't be able to target an 8-slot in LabVIEW for FRC 2015. The NI-RIO driver will no longer support it.

But yes, you will still be able to use your 8-slot with LabVIEW for FRC 2014, since that license will not expire.

That said, I expect FIRST will require the roboRIO for 2015 competition.

Does the NI-RIO driver get overridden with 2015 install if it is on the same computer?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by tcjinaz

Thank you Greg.

I had an old memory of other seasons when the previous years' license gave up in early January. FRC2014 really does not expire. Thank you very much NI.

Does NI Linux RT run heavier on memory than it's predecessor?
I am warned. We'll be happy if we can run a cereal box with it, so good enough.

Tim

8 slot cRIOs will be programmed with FRC LabVIEW 2014. It will use the same amount of memory as it did this last year, as nothing changed.
4 slot cRIOs can be programmed with either FRC LabVIEW 2014 or FRC LabVIEW 2015. In both cases, they will be running vxworks. Any memory differences will be due to the LabVIEW differences, not underlying OS differences.
RoboRIO will be programmed with FRC LabVIEW 2015 and will running Linux RT as the OS.

[adammiller3122]

With this being said, will the cRIO 2 work with following YEARS labview? Or at least do we expect it to? We were planning on getting another classmate if not, but the crio 2 is much cheaper.

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by adammiller3122

With this being said, will the cRIO 2 work with following YEARS labview? Or at least do we expect it to? We were planning on getting another classmate if not, but the crio 2 is much cheaper.

No decisions have been made about when to obsolete and stop supporting the cRIO-FRC II. All we can say is that it is supported for non-competition use in LabVIEW for 2015 season.

C++ and Java already dropped support for both cRIOs and assume any users will simply use the old releases of the software. C++ will expire though, so a homebrew toolchain for the cRIO will be required.