8 Port CRIO question

[randalcr]

So with the new CRIO being used by FRC teams, is there a way to permenantly activate LABView for the 4 and 8 port CRIOs? The CRIOs our team has are still good and we'd hate to see them just gather dust since we aren't planning on participating in FRC for the forseeable future...

Thanks.

[BoKnows]

The LabVIEW license is included for the FRC seasons.  The way to permanently activate the software is acquire a license.  This would require LabVIEW, the Real-Time Module, and the FPGA Module.  It'd also be important to note that the cRIO compatibility with the most recent FRC API is discussed at length in other posts here.  You'd likely want to start building your own code base to support the non-FRC projects.

[Doug_Norman · Accepted solution]

Your best choice for the old 4 and 8-slot cRIOs would be to use a dedicated computer with LabVIEW for FRC 2014 installed.  The FRC 2014 license does not expire.

If you use LabVIEW for FRC 2015, the 4-slot cRIO is still supported.  However, we don't guarantee all the functionality will be there.  Moving forward, we will eventually drop support for the cRIOs.

[sraque]

Our team is starting to use virtual machines instead of installation on the native operating system. This allows a single computer to be used for legacy or new Labview versions by launching the desired VM.

[randalcr]

Is there a way to acuire a license for the FRC 2014?