Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:55:16 -0700

I understand that newer versions of LabView, if ordering certain options,
include an embedded ca client and portable ca server interfacing directly
with LV shared variables. As memory serves you will need the data-logging
and supervisorial control module, but I would check with David B to verify
this.

Jeff
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bjorn Clausen
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:45 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: EpicsCAServer and EpicsCAClient on Windows 7 64 bit
> 
> We have been using the ActiveX Interface for generating EPICS channels
> with
> Labview the last decade.
> It is described here: http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/kasemir/axca/index.html
> Obviously, it is not maintained any longer, but it has served us well...
> 
> Today I tried installing it on my new Windows 7 64 bit machine, and it
> did
> not work :-(
> 
> I can use the caget and caput commands to read and write to external
> epics
> channels from a cmd prompt, but when trying to generate epics channels
> from
> LabVIEW, it cannot connect to the EpicsCAServer.
> 
> I checked in Component Services/Computers/My Computer/DCOM Config, and
> sure
> enough, there are no entries for EpicsCAServer and EpicsCACLient as there
> is
> on my old Windows XP system.
> 
> I tried registering the services manually using:
> EpicsCAServer.exe -RegServer
> and
> EpicsCAClient.exe -RegServer
> But that did not do the trick... I guess it is understandable as the
> executables were made for Win2K...
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions as how to move forward from here? Are there
> any
> other LabVIEW ports for EPICS out there?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bjørn
> 
> 
> 
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System