Multiple users developing on an PXI RT-target

[cholulteca]

Hi guys,

I am working on a PXI RT-system with a LabView 8.5 client PC. The problem ist, we cannot work with two client PCs at the same time, which means whenever my colleague tries to establish a connection from his LabView PC to upload a vi, he cannot even connect. So  we cannot work simultaneously. We can only work simultaneously with one LabView PC and another PC working with CVI.

Is that the way it is meant to be, or is there any possibility that we can upload and run our vis at the same time?

Thanks in advance!

[Andre_Saller]

This is the way it is meant to be. Just imagine, someone could access your RT system on which you are developing, and you don´t know about it. You could both change things, and everyone is wondering why his application isn´t working anymore.

I would recommend the following: Develop your VIs, and stay unconnected. Only for testing your application, connect to the target, and disconnect after you have done your testing (you can do this by right clicking on the target in your project explorer). If your customer does the same, you should have a good chance that both can access the RT system most of the time, and still avoid conflicts.

Hope this helps!

André

[cholulteca]

Actually, we don't really have a customer who would want to access our system, it's just a co-worker and me. We'd like to develop different parts of the system at the same time, but both parts need RT access (to prevent unauthorized or unknown access, we have a closed subnet).
We found out today that we can at least simultaneously use the system if one of us only emulates the environment, even if the emulated system uses the real hardware in-/outputs. The problem is, simulating an FPGA is not really efficient.

Anyway, as there doesn't seem to be a way to improve the situation, we'll just go on working like that.