I am currently involved with a production facility inwhich we regularly interface with some DSP's in a very primitive way; By running a virtual machine that contains a folder in which we open a git bash, and then we can run scripts from there to communicate with the processors. The connection to the processors is through an ethernet adapter that leads to a USB server, which is in turn connected to several DSP's, so we have to specify which COM port to direct commands at every time we run a script.
Some of the older guys at my work struggle a lot with this, and so I had the idea of maybe simplifying it by making a labview interface that simply establishes the connection and connects simple push buttons to the scripts we use in the process. I am however struggling to find information on how to run gitBash from labview, especially given that I would prefer doing it as a hidden background process, whilst still being able to read out any potential information that comes in return, and displaying it a bit more neatly. Wondering if anyone has experience with anything like this or any ideas on how it could be done?
My LabView experience is solely with simple instrument interfaces, so I wouldn't really know how to start, or if labview is even the way to go here. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks.
