"Is there a way to do it without deploying code to the RT System - maybe install something other on the cRIO?"
You can set up the gRPC server on the cRIO, then use the Python gRPC client to communicate with the server from the host PC.
ni/grpc-device: gRPC server providing remote access to NI device driver APIs.
It is an entirely different approach and the NI-DAQmx Python is not being used.
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