Need some help with the new system.

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Originally Posted by efoote868

Hello CD,
Completely disregarding the legality of it in game, will the cRIO interface to another laptop? For instance, if I wanted to build this system myself, do I have to use that particular mini laptop?

Its just a computer with an IP stack on it, nothing particularly special about it. It will talk to any computer on the same network. In fact, it even has an FTP server on it. I've written some software that allows you to put a webserver on it and interact with the software, and LabVIEW also has a web interface available.

Now of course, I know that you're talking about the driver station, but I'm just talking about all the other stuff you can do. If you search the forums, someone wrote a virtual driver station for last years driver station that you could run on a computer. Since this years driver station is written in LabVIEW, you should be able to move it from machine to machine.

Does labview have to be installed on the laptop that interfaces to the cRIO, or if not, what software needs to be installed? Will labview compile an executable, or what exactly happens?

I believe that you must have LabVIEW on the machine to run this years driver station software. It may be a standalone executable, but I don't believe so. I haven't really looked, but I know some others have been talking about it so just do a quick search. I'm also pretty sure that you can run the software on any old desktop, the NI guys said thats how they generally test it.