LabVIEW Interface for Arduino Discussions

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I too just plugged in an Arduino to my longtime Labview environment.

With the Labview Interface for Arduino you do not upload Labview code to an Arduino board.   Insead to get started you need to follow the "Labview interface for Arduinmo Setup Procedure" given on  this <https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-15971> page.  Notice in step 6 you are downloading a sketch to the Arduinmo Bloard.  When you run one of the supplied examples the Labview code running on a PC sends commands to the sketch you uploaded in step 6,  and the Arduino Board returns the results to Labview.  The supplied examples are installed in Step 4 in the Setup Procedure.  All of the supplied examples are listed on this <https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/labview-interface-for-arduino?view=documents#/?tagSet=undefine...> page. 

Howard

See FAQ number 7         

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-16024

-Sam K

LIFA Developer

So then, basically (because there's only one .pde file separately uploaded to it from the Arduino IDE) the Arduino is just being used as a serial I/O device (i.e. cheaper-than-NI-hardware) rather than something like an FPGA where it could independently do its own processing and correspond with a VI?

Something similar is available for use with Processing (http;//processing.org).

SJN,

You can also do processing on the Arduino independent of LabVIEW by modifying the firmware.  Say for example you have 10 weather stations around your house all connected via I2C (maybe a bad example but it will do).  You could use the Arduino to gather information from the stations and store it in the Arduino's RAM for averaging over a 10 minute period.  Then every 10 minutes you send the data to LabVIEW to display on screen and log to your mySQL database.

So you can leverage both the Arduino and the PC processing power in whatever way works best for you.

-Sam K

LIFA Developer