LabView Dashboard

[Chris_Elston]

Danny,

Go easy on the little freshman fellow....he is new....

I tried to assist brummer13 yesterday. We loaded MPLAB and downloaded the default code from IFIrobotics. We assumed that all code and bytes would be supported by Labview Dashboard with this configuration. We still can't get Labview to work with the default code downloaded from IFI.

Here is what we know.

1. Labview CMUCam works great.
2. NI-VISA is installed (it works fine with CMUCam Labview
3. IFI Robotics Dashboard works fine, this proves our cable, serial port work just fine on the computer.
4. We installed default IFIRobotics code with MPLAB and C18 2.4 complier. We assumed that this version of software would support all the user byte calls that Labview dashboard is looking for instead of using EasyC, where we have to write our own user bytes to Labview Dashboard.
5. We did write a small EasyC application for the OI LEDs, the OI LEDs work just fine, but Labview doesn't seem to be picking it up.
6. We have read the documentation, the PDF that came in the zip file for the dashboard application, doesn't really say anything about it "not" working. No troubleshooting steps etc..

What we have noticed:
1. Labview dashboard seems to be running continuously, and monitoring the block diagram in the background, we can see I guess what you would call a program "pulse" or bulge in the piping coming in simulation data flow, it arrives in the bigger frame on the right, then changes the top left and right arrow selectors to say "False". Common sense to me means the data came in, but didn't find a matching packet or "String" in that block and then went false.

Being that we tried the default code, which we thought was sending user byte data, I am kind-of lost too.

I do appreciate your other post, I am reviewing the Labview training links you have posted for the sake of our freshman team trying to design an HMI for the robot this year.

Thanks for your patients in the matter. I am glad that other teams have gotten this to work, apparently for whatever reason, we aren't one of them, and I am trying to lead them in such a way that decifers good troubleshooting skills. We are generally a seasoned programming team with good technical skills. We helped find a bug in the EasyC camera function not long ago that was a concern to our team, but so far none of us have grasped the Labview Dashboard application. Apparently we aren't trying hard enough.

Also I believe bummer13 was just asking a general question if anyone had gotten it to work or maybe wanted to hear from a team that got it up and running. Maybe you can direct us to such a team that has it running since their are so many of them. Thank you for you time.

Originally Posted by Danny Diaz

I wish you wouldn't make such statements, there have been many teams who have gotten the LabVIEW Dashboard to work. The problem you're facing is that you either (1) haven't read the documentation or (2) haven't taken the time to learn how to use it. If you have specific questions maybe I can help - I must admit I don't support EasyC quite yet, it's been on my list of things to do but have not been able to get around to it (darn day job!).

Have you been able to get the Dashboard to receive packets? Have you been able to get the Dashboard to display simple PWM_1 information? Have you been able to get the Dashboard to show you joystick information?

-Danny