Labview 2022 Q3 with NI-Switch

[nstewart114]

It seems as though NI-Switch 21.3 can be installed with LabVIEW 2022 Q3 but is not accessible through LabVIEW 2022. It seems as though NI-Switch installs into LabVIEW 2019 folder structure but not the LabVIEW 2022 folder structure. Has anyone found a work around for this other than copying the Folder over into the Labview 2022 Instr.lib folder?

[billko]

Was LV 2019 the last version the most recently opened LV version?  I'm thinking drivers might install into the last version of LV that was opened.

[rolfk]

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@billko wrote:

Was LV 2019 the last version the most recently opened LV version?  I'm thinking drivers might install into the last version of LV that was opened.

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Not quite. NI drivers before 2022Q3 all supported installation into the same version and 3 prior versions of other NI software. So NI-Switch 21.x supports installation into LabVIEW 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018. The installers can detect which versions are installed and only installs support into the versions that are present.

So if you install another LabVIEW version later you have to rerun the driver installer again. Your 2022Q3 version is not yet supported by this driver.

With 2022Q3 NI will start releasing new drivers that install in a common location for LabVIEW 2022Q3 and higher but it will take time before all drivers are ported to the new way, so don’t hold your breath for it. The by far easiest wau for you for now is to go back and use LabVIEW 2021.

[billko]

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@rolfk wrote:

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@billko wrote:

Was LV 2019 the last version the most recently opened LV version?  I'm thinking drivers might install into the last version of LV that was opened.

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Not quite. NI drivers before 2022Q3 all supported installation into the same version and 3 prior versions of other NI software. So NI-Switch 21.x supports installation into LabVIEW 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018. The installers can detect which versions are installed and only installs support into the versions that are present.

So if you install another LabVIEW version later you have to rerun the driver installer again. Your 2022Q3 version is not yet supported by this driver.

With 2022Q3 NI will start releasing new drivers that install in a common location for LabVIEW 2022Q3 and higher but it will take time before all drivers are ported to the new way, so don’t hold your breath for it. The by far easiest wau for you for now is to go back and use LabVIEW 2021.

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Oh, yes.  Thank you for correcting me.  it's been a while since I've installed drivers to a computer with more than one LabVIEW version installed.

[crossrulz]

NI Switch is on the list to use the new install location (Extending Compatibility Between LabVIEW and NI Drivers with Addon Support).  I am seeing some movement in NI software the last few days (LabVIEW 2022Q3 has a patch, I'm seeing a readme for cRIO 2022Q4).  NI-Switch could be in the mess of stuff being released this quarter (there is a place for a release note for 2022Q3 and 2022Q4, but nothing populated).

[nstewart114]

The primary reason for moving to 2022 is that we are currently starting to move up to Windows 11 and 2022 is the only one showing compatibility with it. I expect we could run the older versions with Windows 11 but we have had issues previously with the older revs having odd symptoms on the newer operating systems which caused us to upgrade anyway.

[crossrulz · Accepted solution]

It looks like a whole bunch of NI drivers were just dropped.  NI-Switch 2022Q4 is available.

[nstewart114]

Thank you! That is great to hear.

[RVallieu]

It is missing the LabVIEW support package for LabVIEW 2022 in the Linux package.

We're going to try the 2022Q4 package for NI-switch