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Overview

Note: NI WSN products are not supported beyond LabVIEW 2015. If you have questions on migrating products, contact technical support at ni.com/support.

This article lists NI software versions that support NI WSN devices.

Contents

Download WSN Software

NI strongly recommends using the latest version of NI-WSN and LabVIEW with NI-WSN hardware.

To Download the latest version of the NI-WSN driver click here
To Download the latest version of the NI-RIO driver click here.
For the latest version of LabVIEW, go to ni.com/labview.

Table 1: NI WSN Hardware and Software

Note: If no driver version is listed, then the module is not supported in that gateway or node.

HardwareNI LabVIEW (32 bit)****NI LabVIEW Module (32 bit)NI-WSNOther NI Driver Requirements

Nodes

NI WSN-32028.6.1 or laterWSN Module 8.6.1 or later1.0.2 or later-
***NI WSN-32128.6.1 or laterWSN Module 2010 or later1.3.0 or later-
***NI WSN-32268.6.1 or laterWSN Module 2010 or later1.3.0 or later-
NI WSN-32142011 or laterWSN Module 2011 or later1.3.1 or later-
NI WSN-32302011 or laterWSN Module 2011 or later1.3.0 or later-
NI WSN-32312011 or laterWSN Module 2011 or later1.3.0 or later-

Gateways

NI WSN-97918.6.1 or later-1.0.2 or later-
*NI 97922010 or later2010 Real-Time Module or later1.3.0 or later-
**NI 97952011 or later2011 Real-Time Module or later1.3.0 or laterNI-RIO 4.0 or later

* To use the NI 9792 WSN Real-Time Gateway you must install both NI LabVIEW 2009 Service Pack 1 (SP1) (32-bit) or later and NI LabVIEW 2009 SP1 (32-bit) Real-Time Module or later.

** To use the NI 9795 WSN C Series Gateway you must have LabVIEW and LabVIEW Real-Time 2011 or later and a  CompactRIO that supports the RIO Scan Interface (RSI) or Scan Engine. 

*** If using the LabVIEW WSN Module on the NI WSN-3212 and 3226 nodes labVIEW 2010 base/full/professional or later is required. 

**** NI-WSN is not supported in LabVIEW 2014.

Table 2: Latest Windows Support for NI WSN

OSNI-WSNNI LabVIEWNI LabVIEW WSN Module
Windows 10Current1Current1Current1
Windows 8Current2Current2Current2
Windows 7CurrentCurrentCurrent
Windows VistaCurrentCurrentCurrent
Windows XP
(32 bit only)
CurrentCurrentCurrent
Windows 2000 SP31.0.22009 SP12009 SP1

"Current" indicates that the latest version of NI-WSN supports the indicated operating system. 

1 - Please see NI Product Compatibility for Microsoft Windows 10

2 - Please see Known Compatibility Issues Between Windows 8 and NI Products

Table 3: NI-WSN and LabVIEW Version Support

LabVIEW Version (32 bit)NI-WSN 1.0.2NI-WSN 1.1.0NI-WSN 1.2.0NI-WSN 1.2.1NI-WSN 1.3.0NI-WSN 1.3.1NI-WSN 1.4NI-WSN 1.5NI-WSN 15.0
8.6.1         
2009 SP1         
2010 SP1         
2011 SP1         
2012 SP1         
2013 SP1         
2014 SP1         
2015 SP1         

The areas in green represent version of LabVIEW support for the given version of NI-WSN. 

Installation Procedure

  1. Install LabVIEW
  2. Install LabVIEW Real-Time Module(required for NI 9792 and NI 9795)
  3. Install NI-RIO (Required for NI 9795 support)
  4. Install LabVIEW WSN Module (Optional, allows for LabVIEW programming directly on WSN Nodes) (Includes NI-WSN Driver)
  5. Install NI-WSN Driver

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