DL-PLUS driver package for NI lookout 6.x

[pianoman]

Any word on using DL-PLUS driver package for NI lookout 6.x running on a windows 7 PC?
We are running a 160 I/O lookoutdirect and need to create web pages showing various screens and it looks like we need to invest (many $) into NILO to do so.
I need for 4 differnt PC's on the network to view status & history charts Lookout panels.
Please help befor we spend $'s on NI6!!
Thanks,  Mark

[rlp122]

DLPlus will not work on Windows 7.

I would honestly suggest moving to a different platform than Lookout.  Lookout is well past it's prime.  There are incredibly better PC HMI solutions available.

[MikeS]

Host Engineering does not have any current plans to update LookoutDirect or DLPlus. The last builds of these two products was with Lookout v4.51.19, and that was done simply to get integrate them with the a v5 comm server.

[Pete Electric]

 

REally? NI Lookout is now at 6.7.1 and still viable. A decision to summarily end support for a software product line should take the existing user base into consideration. We use a slew of Host products ($10k+/yr) and this is just one of them. The old driver still worked with NI Lookout 5.1 on XP but now does not work with Win7/NI Lookout 6.x

Our solution to this was to use the ModbusTCP driver in Lookout 6.7.1 instead with all our DL PLCs. Here is a link to the conversion cheatsheet: support.automationdirect.com/docs/modbus_conversion.xls‎

[dcharv]

We also have a Lookout 6.1 system with DL plus on windows XP with around 5K i/o through ethernet connection.
Since microsoft stopped supporting windows XP we would like to upgrade to windows 7 but it seems it is not a simple task ...

any ideas are welcome

D.Charvatis