You now have to use Internet Explorer to access NI Web Config

Technical Programming
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The NI Web Interface (a.k.a. the place where you access and change CAN port numbers) runs using NPAPI/Silverlight, which is deprecated. As per NI’s website,

Google Chrome version 42 and later as well as Microsoft Edge are not supported browsers for National Instruments web technologies. National Instruments highly recommends that customers use supported browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari).

However, Firefox has stopped supporting plugins as well, so you now have to use either Internet Explorer or Safari to access the config. Hope NI figures out a replacement before 2021!

2

Yeah I found that out the hard way at practice the other day. Firefox updated when I got to the shop then nothing worked.

3

I have noticed that certain Windows 10 computers in our shop do not have Internet Explorer installed at all. Hoping NI rewrites the myRIO dashboard in html5 soon…

4

It’s fairly easy to fix that if you have admin privileges. Go to “Turn Windows Features Off and On” in the control panel, and search for it in the list.

5

If you specifically download an outdated version of firefox you can get it to work but it’s painful.

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NI needs to stop this madness and make an interface that isn’t based on a rapidly dying plugin.

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As another interim work-around, you can download and install NI’s roboRIO Toolkit (available at http://www.ni.com/download/labview-roborio-toolkit-2016/6215/en/).

The toolkit installation includes NI MAX, and you can use NI MAX to perform the same configuration functions you would have done via the web dashboard, including managing CAN devices, etc.

Hope that helps!

  • Ron
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Even if you exclusively “have” Microsoft Edge, you should still have internet explorer hidden somewhere. Try win + R and type iexplore.exe.

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I hear ya!