How do two fieldpoints with embedded VIs communicate with each other?

[Gizmaa]

Success!

All I have to do offer up a lab assisstant as a sacrifice to the Fieldpiont gods on the 14th day of the 8th month at the stroke of noon while humming the theme to "Battlestar Galactica".   It's that easy!

Honestly I have no idea why it started working this morning.  I added a second file output as shown in the  attached image and it worked.  The LED on the remote fieldpoint activates and deactivate along with both files being correctly written to the host datalogger.

What would cause a fieldpoint to arbitrarily work/not work?

[Kevin_S]

Hi Gizmaa,

One item of note with FieldPoint units is how they connect to your network.  As a FieldPoint supporter here at National Instruments, you wouldn't believe the amount of support calls that concern networking.  The unit can periodically work or periodically drop from the network due to IP address conflicts.  This article (How to Network FieldPoint to a Host Computer with Ethernet) does an excellent job explaining how to troubleshoot networking issues.

(Even if your controller is set to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server, your controller may still not be visible or my periodically drop from your network if something else on your network has a static IP address set to the one the DHCP server gave your FieldPoint controller.)

Regards,

Kevin S.

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[Gizmaa]

All our FPs are on an isolated network.  I have a switch on the labtop.  The IPs are all static and set by me specifically for the purpose of setting them up.  There as been no loss of communication between the FPs and the computer through MAX.

[Kevin_S]

Hi Gizmaa,

If you could post code that replicates the behavior you're describing, myself or someone else in the community could investigate further.

Regards,

Kevin S.

Appliations Engineer

National Instruments

[Gizmaa]

The VI I was using was LED_test.vi and the VI I have successfully embedded now is FP_test.vi.  The currently embedded VI is functioning as expected.