display on standalone PXI real-time target

[Steve76]

Hello-

Is it possible to display simple information, such as a simple front panel or a single graph or chart, on the attached monitor of a standalone PXI system running a VI under Labview Real-Time? Is there a graphics engine component of Labview Real-Time that supports this? If not, what about text-based feedback?

Perhaps I am not using the right search terms, but I haven't seen this question addressed directly either in the documentation or the forums.

Thanks for your assistance,

Steve

[Hillman]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the post and I hope your well today.

The screen for the standalone system is not used to display a user interface.The reason for this I assume is because the front panel isnt deterministic hence would add jitter to the PXI system operations. 

The methods of achieving this would be to user Remote Front Panels, which allows you to view the front panel in a web browser or to create a windows host vi which communicates via TCP/IP for example to gather information to display.  

Can I ask why you wish to do this, and is there any reason you can't have a windows host machine / or have network connectivity? 

Hope this helps, 

[jkurtw]

Hi Steve,

You can display simple text strings using the VI located here:

Real-Time » RT Utilities » RT Debug String.vi

Kurt 

[Steve76]

James, Kurt-

Thank you for your replies. I will check out the  RT Debug String VI to see if that has enough capability for what I want to do.

In my application, the PXI system will be continuously running code and responding to simple ethernet commands from a controlling PC. This is part of a large, complex and high consequence system, and the controlling PC has lots to do, so I would rather not run Labview on it. I also don't want to interfere with my ethernet commands by adding more TCP/IP traffic, though since my data volume is low this is probably okay. I just want the operator to visually monitor one signal, plus maybe provide a few other flags to indicate what is going on. The Remote Front Panel approach using the web server and a browser may work. I will look at that and will also look at a text-only approach using the Debug String, unless there is another way to do this.

Thank you for your help,
Steve