LabVIEW front panel monitor. I use it to get emails/Slack messages and beeps by monitoring Leiden fridge's program. It can be used to monitor and get alerts from any LabVIEW executables or VIs.
The information below may be a little out of date as the program is keep updating. But the story doesn't change too much.
Each control on the front panel of a LabWIEW program can be accessed by a 'Path' as follows:
[PT OFF(0)-ON(1)]
PATH=VI,127.0.0.1:3375,FP.vi/PNL_CTR,3/TAB_PAGE,0/PAGE_CTR,10/TAB_PAGE,1/PAGE_CTR,0
Here we name the reading as PT OFF(0)-ON(1). VI,127.0.0.1:3375,FP.vi refers to the FP.vi of the Leiden program. The VI name can be found in "file -> vi properties" in the menu bar. Sometimes the menu bar is hidden when a program is running, you can stop the program to show the menu bar. Each LabVIEW excutable has a TCP server by default to talk with other programs. There is still a TCP server even if you run a VI instead of an exe. PNL_CTR,3 gets the 3rd control on the Panel, which is a Tab in our case. TAB_PAGE,0 returns the 0th page of that Tab control...
For T water out (C), things are a bit different. The reading is inside a cluster control. We can not get the reading even after we get a reference to the cluster. To sovle this, we should add VALUE=CLUSTER,2 as shown bellow, which means the value indexed by 2.
[T water out (C)]
PATH=VI,127.0.0.1:3375,FP.vi/PNL_CTR,3/TAB_PAGE,0/PAGE_CTR,10/TAB_PAGE,1/PAGE_CTR,4
VALUE=CLUSTER,2
The tool in Leiden/search vi panel from repository is helpful to find out the path. It gets the value, children, and cousins of a path. Below is a snapshot of it.
Just open the files. It's easy to understand.
