VBAI displays on local web browser?

[Nelson_Bridwell]

We are running VBAI on a PC that connects to several GigE cameras.

We are NOT using any remote smart cameras or embedded vision systems.
We would like to be able to display vision images and status information in a web browser running on this PC (under FactoryTalk).

VBAI supports web browser displays for remote targets such as smart cameras or embedded vision hardware.

Is there any way to display a custom VBAI interface on a loca web browser running on the same PC as VBAI?

Thank you in advance!

[Karl-G]

There is not a way to natively share the images from VBAI on a Windows PC to a web server. Depending on your intention for the web sharing, you could configure a LabVIEW VI to take an exported image from VBAI and share it via the web server. This would not have a very quick update rate, but it would be a possible workaround.

[Brad]

Another option would be to create a VI that uses the API to control VBAI and get results/images and displays them on the VI. Then you can turn on the web server and create the VI's front panel into a web page which would have fast update rates. Unfortunately because of firewall issues, support for multiple instances, collisions with other apps using the same port, etc. it's not that straight forward to support this on Windows, where alot of this isn't a problem for the RT case. I hope this helps and let me know if you want more details on how to accomplish the web server feature for a LV VI that is communicating with VBAI to get images/data.

Thanks,

Brad