Accessing RTAI from Windows

[Roberto Bucher]

As one of the main developpers of the RTAI-Lab project, I can confirm you that 
the text version of rtailab is no more developped since RTAI-3.0. 

At present, the only possibility to monitor a RTAI task from Windows is given 
by the RTAI-XML project (as you already know from Marco Romagnoli).

Roberto


On Saturday 14 January 2006 21:35, Stienen, A.H.A. (CTW) wrote:
> And, of course, just after you've mailed out the message below, you
> remember the nifty little Java program 'jrtailab'. I've just tested it
> and it works straight out of the box! This will do for my basic needs,
> but if anybody feels like answering my questions below, feel free to do
> so! :)
>
> Kind regards,
> Arno Stienen.
>
> Stienen, A.H.A. (CTW) wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > After a lot of reading and with help from several members of the Comedi
> > and RTAI communities, I've now got a working system, consisting of tow
> > PC's; one running Linux with XFCE, Comedi and RTAI, and one running
> > Windows with Matlab, Simulink and Real Time Workshop. Using some
> > carefully selected shared directories, I can create the RTW models on
> > the Windows machine, and then compile and run them in the same directory
> > on Linux. I can connect to the running models via 'xrtailab' and change
> > parameters of the fly.
> >
> > So far, so good.
> >
> > However, I would like to be able to connect to the running model from
> > the Windows PC to modify some parameters. Is this possible? Two
> > possibilities I can think of at the moment:
> >
> > 1) I've read about the alpha mode rtailab program, which could be run
> > from a console (putty!), but can't find it in the source anymore (except
> > in the README). Reading the RTAI mailing list archieve let me to believe
> > that it was discontinued around 2003/RTAI 3.0. Does anybody have a
> > working copy somewhere for my system (see below)?
> >
> > 2) Running the X-server on Cygwin, to run 'xrtailab' on Windows.
> > However, I'm very doubtful if this will work. Has anybody got any
> > experience here?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Arno Stienen.
> >
> >
> > My system:
> >
> > Slackware 10.2
> > Kernel 2.4.27-adeos
> > RTAI 3.2
> > Comedi 0.7.70
> > Comedilib 0.7.22
> >
> > Windows XP
> > Matlab 7.0.1

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