June 2016
This file contains important information about the NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5, including system requirements, and installation instructions, and new features.
Automating the Installation of NI Products
Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 10
Using NI Software with Microsoft Windows 8.1
The NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 software contains an extensive library of VIs and properties you can call from LabVIEW to program your customized IEC 60870-5 applications for your devices.
The NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 software supports the following NI hardware products in the LabVIEW Real-Time Module:
In addition to the system requirements for the LabVIEW Development System, the NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 16.0 software has the following requirements:
Refer to the LabVIEW Readme for additional system requirements and supported operating systems for LabVIEW.
The NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 16.0 supports the following operating systems:
1 NI software installs VC2015 Runtime and .NET 4.6.1. Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 require Microsoft updates to support these items. Refer to Microsoft KB2919442 and KB2919355 for more information about how to install these updates.
2 NI software is signed with a SHA-256 certificate. Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 require Microsoft updates to support SHA-256. Refer to Microsoft KB3033929 for more information about how to install this security update.
Before installing the NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 software, log on as Administrator or as a user with Administrator privileges. The NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 software setup program must have Administrator privileges because the program modifies the configuration registry of your system. Complete the following steps to install the NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 software:
Complete the following steps to install the NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 software on a real-time target in NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX):
With this release, NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 drops support for Microsoft Windows 8.0, Windows 7 RTM (with no service pack), Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 16.0 and later will not install or run on an unsupported OS. You cannot deploy or distribute applications that use NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 16.0 to an unsupported OS. Additionally, after installing NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 16.0, you cannot use any installers built on this computer with any version of LabVIEW, LabWindows™/CVI™, NI TestStand™, or Measurement Studio on an unsupported OS.
For more information about the changes to our OS support for 2016, refer to KB 79UC78LS, Why Does my LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, Measurement Studio, or TestStand Built Installer Fail on Windows XP/Vista and Server 2003?.
Refer to the NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 Help, accessible by selecting Help»NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 in LabVIEW, for information about using the NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 software.
Select Help»Find Examples from LabVIEW to launch the NI Example Finder. Navigate to the Hardware Input and Output»NI-Industrial Communications»IEC 60870-5 folder to access the examples. You can modify an example VI to fit an application, or you can copy and paste from one or more examples into a VI that you create.
You can also find the examples for the NI-Industrial Communications for IEC 60870-5 software in the labview\examples\IEC60870-5 folder.
You can automate the installation of most NI products using command-line arguments to suppress some or all of the installer user interface and dialog boxes. However, starting with the August 2012 releases (products using NI Installers version 3.1 or later), you may need to perform additional steps before or during a silent installation of NI software.
If the NI product you are installing uses Microsoft .NET 4.0, the .NET installer may run before any NI software installs and may require a reboot before the installation of NI software begins. To avoid a .NET reboot, install .NET 4.0 separately before you install NI software.
For more information, refer to the following KnowledgeBase articles:
Microsoft Windows 10 is the latest version of the Windows operating system and features significant changes compared to previous versions. Windows 10 introduces several new capabilities and also combines features from both Windows 7 and Windows 8. For more information about NI support for Windows 10, visit ni.com/windows10.
When you install NI software on Microsoft Windows 8.1, you will notice a few additional tiles in the Apps view, including shortcuts to NI application software products such as NI LabVIEW, NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX), and NI Launcher. For more information about NI support for Windows 8.1, visit ni.com/windows8.
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