labview remote connection

[hn1]

Hi,

I have installed Labview on my office computer, however my personal laptop is connected to the instrument of interest in the lab. I can not install Labview on my personal laptop because of university license policy. I installed the GPIB driver on my laptop. I wonder if I can use Labview to remotely connect to the laptop (known IP address) and collect data.

Thanks in advance

[NathanS]

Hi hn1,

Unfortunately, I don't think that connecting directly to the instrument over the network will be possible. There are a couple of options I can think of which might be possible as a workaround. Both are fairly complicated:

1. Create a new project with a VI which reads data from the GPIB instrument and writes the data to a file on a shared network drive. Then build the project into an executable. Install the LabVIEW Runtime engine on the laptop. Put the executable file on the laptop and run it. Then create a VI on the desktop which reads the data from the file and displays it. 

2. Similar to the above, but instead of writing data to a shared network file, use VI Server to share the data over the network from the executable file on the laptop to the VI on the desktop.

Hope that helps!

Regards,