Different Front Panels on 3 different screens, same data collection

[tanyasue327]

Hi

I'm having an issue on where to even begin with this problem. I would consider myself a novice-intermediate LabVIEW user.

I'm going to be doing some testing at a facility I work at. We need three different front panels running during the testing one in the DAQ room, one in the firefighter tech room, and one in the viewing room. The issue I need help resolving (I don't even know where to begin and have looked everywhere) is how can I show three different front panels on three different screens. We have a lot of equipment going into the system, but I only want to produce temperatures on some, gas analyzers on some, and a red LED in the fire tech and control room (not in the viewing room we don't want to scare people if something goes wrong!). I have these set up just fine and they are working based on the thermocouples I have tested.

I need to be sure the control room can read all of the data coming in, even if it isn't displayed on the screen, and the 3 different front panels are required. How can I do this without having to run 3 instances of LabVIEW? Is there a way I can use S-Video or something, or incorporate subVis to show up on a screen somehow?

We are hooking up to a FieldPoint system as well if that helps. Im using LabView 8.6.

I'm not going to attach the code because it's working, I just need to know how to integrate the three together.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!

Tanya

[_Bryan]

Have you looked into remote panels?

[tanyasue327]

No I don't know what that means

They just kind of threw me into this design of the project, I'm not sure what remote panels would do.

Another thing I need to incorporate is streaming video as well, would I need a plugin for that too?

[Ben]

How far apart or the rooms?

If close enough off-the-shelf hardware from BlackBox etc could extned the video cables.

If miles apart then LV offers (as mentioned above) Remote Panels which port the front panel to a web page that can be viewed in a broswer.

After concidering those options post back with details for more ideas.

Ben

[_Bryan · Accepted solution]

I have no idea on the video.  But LabVIEW has a built in web server where you can view vi's through a web browser.

Here are a few links, also do a search and see if it might work.

https://www.ni.com/en/shop/labview.html

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Archive-TKB/Launch-Remote-Front-Panel-for-each-SubVI-called/ta-p/3494819

[Ben]

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@_Bryan wrote:

I have no idea on the video.  But LabVIEW has a built in web server where you can view vi's through a web browser.

Here are a few links, also do a search and see if it might work.

https://www.ni.com/en/shop/labview.html

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Archive-TKB/Launch-Remote-Front-Panel-for-each-SubVI-called/ta-p/3494819

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Bryan's idea and links should be your first approach.

If that does not work for you let us know why and we'll gofrom there.

Ben

[tanyasue327]

Great thanks. The rooms aren't too far apart. I would say from the control room to the veiweing room which is the longest stretch is going to be about 65 feet. The web browser thing might just work though. I'll look into it and see where we can go from there if it doesn't work. Thanks so much!