NI LabView RIO Evaluation Kit with NI Community Edition ?

[solfortress]

Is it possible to use NI LabView RIO Evaluation Kit with NI Community Edition ?

[softball · Accepted solution]

Hi

Answer is yes and no.

You cannot do anything just with LabVIEW. Community version or not.

See this datasheet from 2014 when the board was new/hot :

Besides LabVIEW you need the RT module and the FPGA module. Neither is free. Actually expensive. And they must both match the LabVIEW version.

And then you have no development assistance, as with the myRIO, where the myRIO Toolkit is there to help you.

But it should still be supported as such. I don't have any at hand, so I might be wrong.

Regards

[solfortress]

Thank you for your comprehensive answer.

[Bob_Schor]

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@softball wrote:

And then you have no development assistance, as with the myRIO, where the myRIO Toolkit is there to help you.

But it should still be supported as such. I don't have any at hand, so I might be wrong.

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Sadly, the myRIO is at (or near) end-of-life.  They are still being sold, but are less than a year away from being unavailable.  The last myRIO Software Toolkit was for LabVIEW 2021 -- I believe purchasing a myRIO might have included the license for the Toolkit.  Note that there is probably a "disconnect" between the myRIO 2021 Software Toolkit and the Community Edition -- if you go this route, I recommend installing the Toolkit before installing any other LabVIEW software (which means you might have to remove all NI software and start over again with the 2021 Toolkit).

Bob Schor