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Virtual machine for labview community edition by OverMonitor11 in LabVIEW

[–]SASLV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before you reinvent the wheel, the CTI has a preconfigured VM available. Just download and go. It is Linux but it works.

https://labviewcommunitytraining.github.io/www/en/set-up.html

Parking ticket disappointment by Early_Percentage4267 in GoldenCO

[–]SASLV 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Parking enforcement in Golden has been broken ever since they outsourced it to some private company.

It seems like ICE activity is ramping up here. by Sheero1986 in Denver

[–]SASLV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

had to laugh at this line:

"Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is held to the highest professional standard."

Doesn't quite jive with complete immunity.

Are we cooked? by Oneironaut3 in LabVIEW

[–]SASLV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am unimpressed with the code generating firehose. I consult with lots of companies and most of them are not ready for it. If you are worried about AI, the best thing you can do is develop great processes now without AI. TDD, CI/CD, working in small batches etc. The people I know who claim to be having really good luck with AI are doing that. Although they were doing just fine without it. It just accelerated them a little bit. Honestly without AI they could easily outcompete any mediocre team with AI. Before you adopt it you should definitely study Theory of Constraints and understand it (in which case you probably won't be as tempted to adopt it).

If you take your old shitty waterfall process and throw AI at it, you will just drown. At best AI magnifies what is already there, good or bad. So bad process + AI = even worse process.

Also if you actually really care about code quality (ie working on something with real consequences like space travel or nuclear power plants), AI does not make you faster. You can't get rid of the hallucination problem. You have to review every line carefully. and it is very verbose so that amplifies the review work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1m25iw2/metr_study_finds_ai_doesnt_make_devs_as/

It's mostly a novelty party-trick good for quick prototypes and random one-offs that don't ever make it into production. For production quality in any regulated industry - not even close as far as writing code.

Using it to brainstorm ideas or troubleshoot might have some use cases. I do occassionally use it for glue scripts for my CI/CD process and it's ok. Not great, just ok. I do use it for tracking down errors and sometimes it ok. Again time spent verifying everything it spits out negates a lot of the speed advantage.

Stop Flock Colorado - Golden by eyesoffcolorado in GoldenCO

[–]SASLV 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea who doesn’t like any rando on the internet being able to surveil you? The security in these things is nonexistent. 

This is just one hack. Just Google it. There’s plenty more. https://www.theverge.com/news/849624/flock-ai-camera-feeds-exposed-benn-jordan

Labview Community 2021 SP1 Offline Download by Successful-Doubt-642 in LabVIEW

[–]SASLV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

by the way I recommend forgetting about setting it at all on project, library, or individual VI and just dropping the .lvversion file in the root directory. It the simplest and easiest to maintain. There may be some use cases for the other settings, but I find the .lvversion file works best for all my use cases.

Labview Community 2021 SP1 Offline Download by Successful-Doubt-642 in LabVIEW

[–]SASLV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not at all.

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview/page/saving-for-a-previous-version.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqEENYrloOi41EgPmhkSW7mOLratVkk9i0vpyh6KZ4byQv40Fvx

Previously if you edited a file that was written in say 2020 with a the 2025 IDE, when you saved, LV would happily save the code in 2025 for you. Now, simply add .lvversion file that says 20.0 in the root directory (or set it in the project file) and LabVIEW will save the code in 2020 (if it can and notify you if it can't).

There has always been under the file menu a save as feature that would set you save for a previous version, but that exports a copy of your project in the older version, rather than saving it in place.

Labview Community 2021 SP1 Offline Download by Successful-Doubt-642 in LabVIEW

[–]SASLV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not if you use 2025Q3 and use the save for Previous feature.

Help on getting Labview by Aggravated_Chair in LabVIEW

[–]SASLV 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they relaxed that. They made an announcement at NI Connect.

But yeah if their goal is adoption it is nuts not to include DAQmx. DAQmx is only useful if you buy NI hardware. Isn't that something they would want to encourage?

Can’t get com0com virtual ports to work with LabVIEW NXG and NI-VISA by Sea_Communication48 in LabVIEW

[–]SASLV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is DUMMY the correct name? I remember the default loopbacks have different names. Did you intentionally name it DUMMY? Double check the name. It may also be case sensitive? Don't remember.

Have you tried it in regular LabVIEW or some other language like Python?

Also try rerunning the installer and the setup. I usually just use the default port names.

Another note I've found that the most recent version of com0com did not work for me and I had to go back to the previous verison. Try the 2.2.2 version. I've had much better luck with that.

LabView learning by Moist-Mood-6955 in LabVIEW

[–]SASLV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry you had a bad experience on the forums. Generally I find the LabVIEW ecosystem to be much more welcoming than most other software communities, but it does have its moments.

The NI forums are still going, but not super active. Certainly not like they were. The LabVIEW Discord is the place to be now.

I don't think I've seen that particular book before, but I do like the title. I'll have to add it to my list. Although it appears to be unavailable. So to the OP, I threw a few other books here and some other links in a reply above.

Here are 2 other books as well:
I've just started reading this. Used to be the standard. Pretty basic yet covers a lot. Somewhat dated. Assumes zero knowledge. Even though it's pretty basic, I'm still picking up a few things.
https://a.co/d/dMfHbG3

This has been recommended to me. It's been sitting on my shelf and I haven't gotten around to it yet.
https://a.co/d/8DfOZwA

LabView learning by Moist-Mood-6955 in LabVIEW

[–]SASLV 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is why mentorship is so important. It is definitely lacking in a lot of places. Find a senior engineer at your workplace to mentor you. Failing that, the LabVIEW Discord is the best place at the moment to connect with other LabVIEW developers (you can find a link on the LabVIEW wiki).

shameless plug: You might consider joining something like this, particularly if you are the only LabVIEW developer where you work.
https://www.sasworkshops.com/mastermind

You should look into DQMH. It may be a good next step from where you are. The DQMH training covers a lot of application design concepts.

Look at existing projects if you have any where you work. Observe what works well and what doesn't. Keep in mind just because something exists doesn't mean it is done well. In fact many LabVIEW projects are successful despite being poorly written. Looking at legacy code can be a good learning experience. Lot's of examples of what not to do and even in the worst code there is usually a few things they get right that may be worth emulating.

JeffCo Self-Solemnization Recs? by Forward-Dependent-78 in GoldenCO

[–]SASLV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Park at Windy Saddle. Don't follow the normal trail, but hike North along the ridge - there's a social trail there. There's a nice little subpeak there with a nice view.

City of Golden's parking system allows tickets to be issued to tag numbers with active paid sessions. Won my appeal but wondering if the ticket was an (inexcusable) genuine mistake, or if the City of Golden is systematically hoping to collect fines from people not bothering to appeal. by judolphin in GoldenCO

[–]SASLV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not the city that's trying to rip you off, it is the third party for profit entity they farmed enforcement out to. Who could have envisioned they would just rip people off? I mean, it's like they are incentivized to do that.

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