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Chapter 8 REMOTE OPERATION
8.1 Remote Operation
The LBA-PC has nearly full GPIB remote control capabilities and partial ActiveX remote control
capabilities. During the installation phase you were asked if remote operation was required. If
you answered yes to the query, the installation process will have loaded the appropriate device
drivers that allow the LBA-PC to communicate with a National Instruments GPIB interface card.
The ActiveX servers are always available.
If you installed the remote operation by mistake, see How to Disable Remote Operation in
section 8.2.
Note: The LBA-PC application will only support National Instrument GPIB device drivers. For a list of
the supported NI GPIB cards see Chapter 10.
Remote operation of the LBA-PC can be a simple operation or very complex, depending upon
the magnitude of the remote control task. Spiricon’s Service Department will supply some
limited free technical support, but must charge for support that becomes more than basic
question and answer queries. Spiricon’s engineering department can provide full Remote
Control applications developed in National Instruments LabVIEW graphical programming
language. Contact Spiricon’s service or sales department for information regarding custom
LabVIEW virtual instrument development support.
All information regarding LBA-PC remote control is provided in Chapters 9 & 10.
8.2 How to Disable Remote Operation
The LBA-PC remote control capability is contained in the file REMOTE.DLL that is copied to the
directory you specified during the LBA-PC installation. The default installation directory is
\SPIRICON\LBAPC\. If you do not have a National Instruments GPIB card, or the GPIB device
drivers are not loaded, then you will see an error message every time the LBA-PC application is
started. To avoid this error message, and disable the LBA-PC remote capability, you must go to
the main installation directory and delete the REMOTE.DLL file.
If you later wish to restore remote capability, copy the file REMOTE.DLL from the
\SPIRICON\LBAPC\Remote directory on the Spiricon CD to the main installation directory or
reinstall the LBA-PC software.
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