Measurement Plug-In SDK for LabVIEW 3.1.0.1

New Measurement Service Client Generator

• Added the client generator, allowing users to call into a measurement service from Python (#569, #571, #575, #576, #577, #578, #590, #592)

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• Update ReadMe: Rename 'Get Measurement Details VI' to 'Get Service Descriptor VI' (#570)
• Update Readme docs with the updated About icon in Instrument Studio (#573)
• Update instructions on how to regenerate LabVIEW code with grpc-labview (#572)
• Make the Resolve Service VI public (#574)
• Add ni-apis as submodule and regenerate discovery client LabVIEW code (#579)
• Update area path to HW Config Amber by @dixonjoel in #583
• renovate: Fix Git submodule scheduling (#586)
• Use measurement's version while writing serviceconfig and registering (#588)
• fix: decouple code generated gRPC server and client API libraries of V2 Measurement Service (#587)
• Update Upgrading measurement services.md (#589)

New Contributors

• @varshini-senthil made their first contribution in #571
• @pakdev made their first contribution in #579

Full Changelog: v3.0.0.4...v3.1.0.1

Measurement Plug-In SDK for LabVIEW 3.0.0.4

Purpose

This release is for internal testing of updated versions of grpc-labview packages. The Measurement Plug-In SDK packages from this repo are not updated from 3.0.0.3.

Measurement Plug-In SDK for LabVIEW 3.0.0.3

This is a breaking release, meaning that existing measurements will be broken after updating. Nearly all of the breaking changes were due to library renames, VI renames, and control/indicator renames. There is a utility for upgrading existing measurements so that they work with the new release.

See this document for details on how to upgrade a measurement service.

What's Changed

• Update the repo LabVIEW source code to LabVIEW 2021. This makes LabVIEW 2021 the minimum required version to use the SDK (#562)
• Change location of create measurement utility to Tools >> Plug-In SDKs >> Measurements >> Create Measurement Plug-In... (#558)
• Rename .seq files in examples to append _example. This helps support using the InstrumentStudio sequencer with our shipping examples (#556)
• Fixes
  • Fix alignment of error message on the create measurement dialog (#553)
  • Fix the path to the Keysight Measurement UI.vi (#554)
  • Update README with new text and screenshots to match the latest measurement template (#555)
  • Remove #MeasurementTodo labels from the configuration and results typedefs (#561)
• Example Changes
  • Rename MeasurementLink Client example to Measurement Plug-In Client (#552)

Full Changelog: v3.0.0.2...v3.0.0.3

Measurement Plug-In SDK for LabVIEW 3.0.0.2

This is a breaking release, meaning that existing measurements will be broken after updating. Nearly all of the breaking changes were due to library renames, VI renames, and control/indicator renames. There is a utility for upgrading existing measurements so that they work with the new release.

See this document for details on how to upgrade a measurement service.

What's Changed

• Renames to remove MeasurementLink terminology
  • Update path to the NIServices.json file to locate the discovery service (#539)
  • Change the path of the discovery service .exe to NI.Discovery.V1.Service.exe (#542)
  • Update VI descriptions with new naming (#543)
  • Add a document explaining migration to Measurement Plug-In SDK 3.x (#544)
  • Update VI icon headers (#547)
• Fixes
  • Update build output paths for build specifications in our examples (#549)

Full Changelog: v3.0.0.1...v3.0.0.2

Measurement Plug-In SDK for LabVIEW 3.0.0.1

This is a breaking release, meaning that existing measurements will be broken after updating. Nearly all of the breaking changes were due to library renames, VI renames, and control/indicator renames. There is a utility for upgrading existing measurements so that they work with the new release.

See this document for details on how to upgrade a measurement service.

What's Changed

• Major refactor of library and package names to remove MeasurementLink (#519, #530, #531, #532, #533, #534, #536, #537, #538, #540)
  • Updated repository name to measurement-plugin-labview (#528)
  • New package names
    • NI Measurement Plug-In SDK (top-level package includes the following 3)
    • NI Measurement Plug-In SDK Service (includes runtime support for measurement services)
    • NI Measurement Plug-In SDK Generator (includes Tools menu item for creating measurement services)
    • NI Measurement Plug-In SDK Examples (includes example measurement services)

Fixes

• Returning an empty string if the TestStand runtime variable for the pinmap ID does not exist (#523)
• Fix tests causing Labview hang - Add Cluster Id support for tests (#522)
• Remove .measui from the DCPower example project (#527)

New Contributors

• @DavidCurtiss made their first contribution in #535

Full Changelog: v2.2.0.2...v3.0.0.1

MeasurementLink Support for LabVIEW v2.2.0.2

What's Changed

• New features
  • Modify measurement template to have a Packed Project Library for the Measurement UI (#511)
• Bug fixes
  • Fix a bug where measurement services built into an executable fails to run (#516)
• Examples
  • Update teststand sequence files to be in sync with latest measurement updates (#512)

New Contributors

• @jarnoldNI made their first contribution in #511

Full Changelog: v2.2.0.1...v2.2.0.2

MeasurementLink Support for LabVIEW v2.2.0.1

What's Changed

• New Features
  • Beginnings of support for the DoubleAnalogWaveform data type
    • Add generated code and .proto for ni.protobuf.types.DoubleAnalogWaveform (#501)
  • Add MeasurementLink top-level package and an examples package (#493)
  • Support workflows with and without a pin map (#507)
• Bug Fixes
  • Error during metadata validation if latched boolean controls are found in the configuration or results (#500)
  • Add timeout as 10s for Reserve Registered Sessions.vi (#505)
• Examples
  • Reset device at the end of a measurement run for DC Power Example usability (#504)
  • Fix NI-Scope example measurement when trigger source pin isn't included in the list of measurement pins (#506)
• Repo Administration
  • Use measlinkbot self-hosted runner in all GitHub workflows (#509)
  • Remove spawningpool check in check_visa_support.vi (#510)

New Contributors

• @ccaltagi made their first contribution in #501
• @nathan-murphy made their first contribution in #504
• @samchris007 made their first contribution in #505

Full Changelog: v2.1.0.2...v2.2.0.1

MeasurementLink Support for LabVIEW v2.1.0.2

What's Changed

• New Features

  • Pin group support in MeasurementLink LabVIEW Client API (#492)

• Example Updates

  • Update the examples to use the new way of launching services (#476)
  • Update NI-Scope to demonstrate PinGroup usage (#495)

• Misc Bug Fixes and Repo Maintenance (#471 #473 #477 #481 #483 #487 #488 #494)

  • Add Programming Language annotation (#480)
  • Add most data types to the measurement service template (#490)
  • Update template to support running in TestStand when creating a new measurement service (#497)

• Documentation

  • Misc Updates (#482 #491)
  • Update MeasurementLink documentation (#474)
  • Add a link to the supported datatypes documentation (#479)

New Contributors

• @Prem-MysteryPro made their first contribution in #488
• @Avinash2Suresh made their first contribution in #495

Full Changelog: v2.0.0.1...v2.1.0.2

MeasurementLink Support for LabVIEW v2.1.0.1

What's Changed

• New Features

  • Pin group support in MeasurementLink LabVIEW Client API (#492)

• Example Updates

  • Update the examples to use the new way of launching services (#476)

• Misc Bug Fixes and Repo Maintenance (#471 #473 #477 #481 #483 #487 #488 #494)

  • Add Programming Language annotation (#480)
  • Add most data types to the measurement service template (#490)

• Documentation

  • Misc Updates (#482 #491)
  • Update MeasurementLink documentation (#474)
  • Add a link to the supported datatypes documentation (#479)

New Contributors

• @Prem-MysteryPro made their first contribution in #488

Full Changelog: v2.0.0.1...v2.1.0.1

MeasurementLink Support for LabVIEW v2.0.0.1

MeasurementLink Support for LabVIEW enables measurement developers to quickly create LabVIEW measurements and run them as a service (gRPC).

This is a breaking release, meaning that existing measurements will be broken after updating. Nearly all of the breaking changes were due to library renames, VI renames, and control/indicator renames. There is a utility for upgrading existing measurements so that they work with the new release. You can find more information here.

What's Changed

• Added new APIs for reserving instrument sessions, initializing instrument sessions, and getting pin map connections. The new APIs provide a high level way to reserve and initialize instrument sessions without having to directly interact with the underlying services. The APIs for initializing sessions support the following instrument drivers: NI-DCPower, NI-SCOPE, NI-FGEN, NI-DMM, NI-Digital, and VISA. You can also create plugins for other instruments, as shown in the Keysight 34401A DMM Measurement example.
• Added icons for all public VIs.
• Added a MeasurementLink subpalette to the Measurement I/O palette.
• Added support for XY data in measurement inputs, measurement outputs, and in the measurement UI.
• Removed support for 8-bit and 16-bit integers in measurement inputs and outputs. The underlying transport mechanism for measurementlink-labview is gRPC and it does does not support 8-bit and 16-bit integers.
• Added new examples and updated existing examples to show how to use the new APIs. There is a Game of Life example that shows how to use XY data. There are also new examples for NI-DMM, NI-SCOPE, NI-FGEN, and NI-Digital that show how to use the new session reservation APIs.

Full Changelog: v1.2.0.4...v2.0.0.1

Software support

• InstrumentStudio 2024 Q1 or later
• MeasurementLink 2024 Q1 or later
• LabVIEW 2020 SP1 or later
• JKI VI Package Manager 2020.1 or later

Note: This release is compatible with MeasurementLink 2023 Q1 and InstrumentStudio 2023 Q1, but new features may not be available and the examples may not work.