LabVIEW via Mobile and Web Browsing

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LabVIEW via Mobile and Web Browsing

Charlie Moore

3/6/12 DFW UGM


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Goals For Meeting

Go Through Options for Viewing LabVIEW

Applications Remotely

Understand a Bit of Underlying Technologies

Have Fun


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LabVIEW GUI (Front Panel)

This Was Big! in the 1990s

It still is great

It is built on system

dependent userinterface objects


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Option 1 - Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop Services:

VNC, RDP, LogMeIn, Jump Desktop,

TeamViewer, Screens, Splashtop, and more.

App installed to

remotely view screen

Mobile Device

Service installed to allow

remote connections

Host PC

Web


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Option 2 Remote Front Panels

Turn your VI into a

website.

Only remote PC with LV

RTE can interact.


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Web Technologies HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

Originally - defined a uniform way to load text

in a GUI.

Core Technology for which websites were

originally built and sadly still are!


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Core

Images

Frames

Forms

Tags


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Duct-Taped-In

CSS

Scripting Flash

Video

Silverlight LabVIEW RTE

PHP


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Web Technologies HTML 5

Core

Images

Frames

Forms

Tags

Audio + Video

Canvas

Vector Graphics

Mobile Features - CSS


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Building the App Web Apps

HTML basic page layout

JavaScript

HTTP requestand XML parsing

AJAX plotting with open

source API calledflot


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Option 3 Web Services

Standard Web technologyIT wont have

any issues

Tutorial: Building and Accessing a

LabVIEW Web Service Application (ETS,

VxWorks, Windows)

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361H-01/lvhowto/build_web_service/
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Option 4 Shared Variables

Non-Standard but very easy!


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Building the App Web or Native?

Web

Native

Runs inside the devices browser

HTML & JavaScript from server

Cannot access contacts, calendar, camera, etc.

+ Multiplatform

Runs as an app on the device Written in native tools and can use OS frameworks

+ Can access device data and hardware features

Single platform


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Data Dashboard

iPhone, iPad

Android


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Web UI Builder

http://www.ni.com/uibuilder/
http://www.ni.com/uibuilder/http://www.ni.com/uibuilder/


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NI cDAQ-9191

Requirements:

Firmware upgrade (available on

ni.com/labs)

Supported Modules:

NI 9215 (Voltage, 4-ch, 100kS/s/ch)

Or build your own

Custom Applications

Data Acquisition with iOS & AndroidNI cDAQ-9191 Support for iOS & Android Now Available on NI.com/Labs

NI cDAQ-9191 Data DisplayAVAILABLE IN

MARCH 2012


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Join the Community

Download example code

Collaborate with other mobile/LabVIEW

developers Tell us about your applications

Submit ideas and feature requests

ni.com/smartphone

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