Reading Published Values from External Application

[person1163]

In my Labview Project, I am trying to read data published to the Variable tab in the Dashboard from an external application (GRIP). It is in the folder GRIP, and the subfolder Contours.
How can I get the value to a global variable? I found the block to read data, but I don't know why it isn't working.


Thanks in Advance.

[Greg McKaskle]

Depending on how it was stored, it is either in /SmartDashboard/GRIP/Contours or in /GIP/Contours. The easiest way to see is to use the variables tab of the dashboard or another table viewer to compare the variable name. And remember that they are case-sensitive too and need to be read as the correct type ( number as number, string as string, etc.)

Greg McKaskle

[ThomasClark]

Originally Posted by person1163

In my Labview Project, I am trying to read data published to the Variable tab in the Dashboard from an external application (GRIP). It is in the folder GRIP, and the subfolder Contours.
How can I get the value to a global variable? I found the block to read data, but I don't know why it isn't working.


Thanks in Advance.

Someone actually wrote a wiki article on using GRIP with LabVIEW.