Re: LabVIEW EPICS connection

["Dale L. Brewe" <brewe@aps.anl.gov>]

I would recommend CALab. I have been using it for several months now in 
our main epics client for data acquisition at three beamlines and I am 
very happy with it. Carsten Winkler has been very responsive to my 
questions. I tried the NI epics client some time ago and didn't really 
like it. Unfortunately I don't remember details but as I vaguely recall, 
a system administrator had to create a static list of pvs to be 
accessed, which doesn't really fit w/ our needs.
dale

On 6/28/2012 4:02 AM, Steve Kinder wrote:
> I am trying to connect an existing LabVIEW VI to EPICS via the freely
> available LabVIEW add-on EPICS Client I/O Server
> (http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2533/lang/en). I am running
> LabVIEW 2011 and have a 3-14-11 soft IOC running on the same system with
> a few test PVs. My first aim is to make a connection between these PVs
> and elements of the LabVIEW VI (currently just a test VI). I wondered
> whether anyone had successfully used this LabVIEW add-on or the full
> version as in the DSC/RT add-ons and could offer me advice on how to
> make the connection.
> I have the following in my test LabVIEW VI; Create EPICS VI, Deploy
> EPICS Client VI and List Records VI. I was hoping that the latter would
> display a list of records in my soft IOC if the connection had been
> established. I get no errors but it doesn’t seem to display any records.
> Any advice would be appreciated, perhaps including whether I should be
> trying to use this LabVIEW add-on or one of the other options e.g. CA
> Lab or the Oak Ridge CA client.
> Many Thanks
> Steve

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