i have mega old equpiment and devices, specifically windows 2000, scopes, and a gbpi-enet-100.
i have an .EXE. when it is running it claims to be using myprogram.vi. ".vi" seems to be a file type associated with national instruments labview (which i do not have, do not know what it is, and will not buy because i am trying to tape something together for anther year, we do not want to develop custom software again)
this .exe wont run in many ways, but it seems closest to running when on another old machine (NT). it gives the same sorts of errors my working computer gives when i unplug the netowrk cable. (it seems to say i can't find my target device).
my guess is that all i have to do is tell the .exe where the devices are. but it seems like there is no way to do this, and it seems like this device finding is handled by "other native instruments software". i have ni 488.2 (from 2000) installed, most of it seems to do nothing, but "ip assignment" finds a device that does have "NI" in its name (but i have 2 devices).
to be clear, i do have a (still) working system. the gbip devices have IP assigned already. i do not want to reassign thier IP. will i break things if i reassign from anther computer?
Is this normal for national instruments devices from around 2000? it really feels like i am missing a piece, but as far as i can understand from reading the forums and stuff, even things like critical drivers are licenced on a per install basis? do really need to buy a driver from 15 years ago? it seems also like maybe this .exe cannot function unless it was "installed" by labview in some way? would i need labview from 15 years ago? would i ned to buy that too?
my end goal is for operators to see if a spectrum is present or absent at this time, nothing fancy at all. you might ask "why not just put the spectrum analyzer on the desk?" which is the right question, that is what i should do, but i am at work, so i cannot do the logical thing. they really want me to make things "work like they always have". is there no simple utilites available for national instruments equpiment? i get that it is very nice, fine grained equipment, but i am looking for red-light/green-light kind of stuff. if my scope is old enough to only use gbip, is custom software the only way to use it remotely?