project8 / mosquito

Labview interface of the exTorr RGA XT100
MIT License
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extorr-labview-interface

Requirements

  1. Windows
  2. Labview 2014 or more recent
  3. Vacuum Plus installed: http://www.extorr.com/products/software

Installation

  1. Clone this repo (using SourceTree)
  2. Update the dripline-labview submodule
  3. Install dripline-labview requirements (see dripline-labview/ReadMe.md)
  4. Create the folder mentionned in the config file
  5. Create the archives and averaged_spectra folders in DataFileLocation

Build

Mosquito can be built as a standalone executable.

  1. Open mosquito Labview project.
  2. In Build specifications, right click on Mosquito>>Build. The executable can be found in the build folder.

Tests

  1. Check that the communications with the AMQP broker works using the Monitor.vi (in dripline-labview)

Start application

  1. Change the path to the config file.
  2. Start the application.