I have a cRIO-9004 controller with cRIO-9215 and NI 9263 modules.

[gammalight]

Hello all,

I am relatively new to programming with LabVIEW and have never used the cRIO devices or done any programming with them.  So I decided to start tinkering with the devices to get familiar with the setup and how to write the VI's for them.  I have a cRIO-9004 controller with cRIO-9215 and NI 9263 modules and I have set up the controller and my channels, I just don't really know what I can do with it to test it out.  I have attached a screen shot of my LabVIEW project window which includes the devices and channel names.  I have been following the "Getting results with CompactRIO and LabVIEW" document I found on the site to do the setup, but it is for temperature monitoring with a thermocouple wire and I dont have that setup so I could only use so much of it.  By the way the document is quite helpful. 

So the help I am looking for is could someone suggest a simple program for me to write, like a waveform generator and display type program?  I am just not sure what I can do with this.  Also I tried dragging my channel name items from my project explorer window over to my block diagram but I could not create any indicators, constants or controls on them when I right-clicked.

[Jennifer_R]

Hi gammalight,

I've found the examples included with LabVIEW very useful.  You can open NI Example Finder through Help >> Find Examples.  The examples for CompactRIO are under Toolkits and Modules >> FPGA >> CompactRIO.  In the Basic IO folder you'll find Analog Input - cRIO.lvproj and Analog Output - cRIO.lvproj which can run on the 9215 and 9263 respectively.  Information on Moving Examples to Another FPGA Target can be found here. 

Did you drag your channel name onto a Host VI or an FPGA VI?  You will only be able to create controls and indicators off FPGA I/O nodes in a VI under the FPGA Target. 

[gammalight]

Hey thanks, the examples worked out great!  I think I have the hang of this thing now!