New experimental LV RPi/BBB installation feature now available

[Ken_S]

For years, we have been relying on the Target Configuration dialog to install LabVIEW to Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black targets.  This utility works but has some downsides: 1) the target has to have an internet connection available, 2) the target and host machine must be able to communicate with each other on a local network, and 3) the installation process has many steps which can occasionally fail leading to more opportunities for installation errors. 

In order to address these issues, we have created an alternative method of installing LabVIEW support to a Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black.  The alternative method involves one step: installing an OS image to the target which already includes LabVIEW support. 

Note that this is currently an experimental feature, and as such the primarily supported method of installing LabVIEW to support to these targets will be using the Target Configuration dialog. 

In the future, even if this new method of installation becomes the primary supported method, we have no plans of removing the Target Configuration dialog  since it will still support more installation scenarios. 

For more information on how to use this new experimental feature, see this link: https://github.com/MakerHub/LINX/wiki/Installing-an-image-with-LabVIEW-pre-installed  

[JonasM]

It says 21.0 and 22.3 does this not support 21 SP1 without making changes to the script?

[Ken_S]

Hi Jonas,

The 21.0 image supports LV 2021 SP1.

Regards,

Ken

[JonasM]

Good, thank you!

[Hansi99]

A new Image for LabView 2023 is available for Download on Github, but the Link does not work, I get the Error "You don't have permission to access".

Can the creator please check the link again or did I happen to be too early to try the download and it overlapped with the upload?

[Ken_S]

Thanks for letting us know.  The issue should be fixed now.

[JiPé]

Hi Ken,

For me it makes a huge difference !

All my previous installs failed to be recognised.

Thanks to this preinstalled image, it works marvelously !

Thanks and please please please keep this experimental feature on future releases 😄

[TKMB]

I've installed this twice and it stops at a flashing cursor instead of the normal Raspberry page. What now?

Thanks!

[john-ats]

Hi Ken,

I installed 

Raspberry Pi

Raspbian Lite (bookworm)

2024-03-15

2024 (24.1)

on a RPi 4B, it booted but failed to start the Network Manager.  I was able to turn on the wifi configuration, but I am unable to configure eth0 and set a static IP.  Any suggestions?  Also I noticed it does not have a desktop, is this the expected behavior?

With the wifi connection working I can ping the RPi and ping my labtop but when I go to NI Max and try to discover Remote System it does not find one, so I manually entered the wifi IP for the pi and got the following error.

[Ken_S]

Hi john-ats,

Can you be more specific on how you are going about setting eth0 to a static IP and why it looks like NetworkManager is not running?

It's correct that the "Lite" Rasbian images do not include a desktop.  If you need a more full featured Raspbian image you'll have to use the standard Target Configuration Wizard to install LabVIEW support to your RPi.

As for the error you are seeing in MAX, the error is correct in this case.  The Community Edition targets do not support MAX.  Our intention is for you to use the Target Configuration Wizard in LabVIEW to install software and configure the RPi.

Regards,

Ken