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LabVIEW 2021 Public Beta
[New Feature] macOS Big Sur Support
Hi Christina
Thanks a lot for this! In fact LV2021beta PDS for MacOS installed alright on a M1 MBPro under MacOS 11.2.2! The installation prompted for the need to install Rosetta first which was a snap as well as to install LV2021 thereafter. I moved all my existing wireworks to this brand new MBPro now and so far all the old projects did open and the recompiles went well. This is so far... who knows what's ahead;-) Generally my rather longtime experience with LV on the Mac proves that things have worked stable and up to my satisfaction/expectation.
Now, one big problem is the capability for DAQ possibilities. LV with no way to interact with the physical real world is nearly of no use. Is there a plan in this domain?
Anyway, I keep on wireworking with LV on this fine new ARM powered Apple and I shall report inconveniences if I find any. Is this the forum to report bugs?
Happy wireworking yours
Urs
@Christina_R wrote:
@_Chris wrote:
Could we know what does not work ?
We're seeing certain cases where we get errors while loading VIs. The team hasn't completed investigating the issue yet, so I can't give a more specific description.
Thanks for the clarification. The phrase "an issue" covers a lot of ground! 😃
I just got my new M1 MacBook Air today so I will follow up on this. (My SSD on my old 2013 MB Air died last night so it was fortunate I had a replacement on order).
Yeah dear sth! I have been testing LV2021 on a M1 MBPro for a while and have so far not really experienced discomfort, except lacking hardware driver capability of course. Now, this might be due to the fact I have mostly ported/renovated existing code that does not need DAQ modules and this is of course a rather small part of my LV-wireworks. Also, I have so far not embarked on a larger scale new project on the M1 powered MBPro but I did create some new test VIs. Until now I had to report only a very few, mostly cosmetic issues though. So I am glad to know the one and only LV power user is aboard too!
Best from Urs, the old faithful LVer on the Mac side of the G code ocean;-)
Chris, Thanks for that update on USB support. It is really hard having this "stealth" Mac support! I had NIDAQmxBase running with BS and an external Thunderbolt-PCI card. However, it would take data once and then fail if I needed to restart the data acquisition. A reboot would cure this, but I didn't try forcing a driver unload/load sequence that might do the same thing.
It would be really nice if NI would be working with our favorite Rosaceae fruit company to get some drivers. Actually just resurrecting the NIDAQmxBase RLP driver would be a start and hopefully not a lot of work and new code to update and cleanup.
I can dream, can't I?
Yeah, dreaming is fine but dreams almost never come true, generally and with DAQ driver support for contemporary LabVIEWs for the MacOS specially.
Chris, I am curious about what kind of DAQ device you used and if you need special driver software other than LV? I would estimate that porting DAQmx Base further up would be the easiest solution for NI to go for. The problem though is, that DAQmx Base does not support NI's performant modern DAQ-hardware but USB driven low cost modules like the NI USB-6015 etc. should be OK. There is probably simply no longer a responsible person to maintain that G and the related RLP access code. In fact I recently got a message that the NI-DAQmx Base Developers group in the forum was archived. Not a good sign if you ask me... I still do dream on as long as I can though...
