gRPC with NISync?

[mch-UT]

I have two different PXI systems that will have a shared clock through the 6683H module. I was looking at the nisync repo, but didn't see any API documentation. I also didn't see any grpc support for nisync. My goal is to extract hardware time stamps for each of the input modules (ex: SMU, O-scope, thermocouple). My plan was to remotely collect the sampled data and timestamps through grpc.

Any suggestions how how to move forward? Both of our systems are remotely controlled from a server. We also have a grandmaster clock that will host the ptp time server. I'm assuming there's not much else I can do outside of configuring in NI-MAX, or switching to another language.

[reckenro]

I'm not too familiar with the nisync repo, but NI-Sync is supported in grpc-device. It doesn't have any python examples like the other drivers (and if I remember correctly, for that reason wasn't listed in the supported drivers table in the README). But in any case, you can see its proto and related server-side files here and the proto is included in the ni-grpc-device-client.zip in the recent release.

[mch-UT]

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll have to do some digging since the documentation is limited, but this will probably work. I'm open to any suggestions regarding learning how to use NI-Sync through grpc.

Thanks for your help!

[reckenro]

Sure thing. And agreed, the documentation is spread out and sparse in some areas. For getting started, I think what I'd do is check out here for getting the grpc server up and running, Here in our Wiki for steps to create the gRPC client to the server, and then the NI Sync C API docs. Hopefully, those combined will get you unblocked. It might also help to check out our python examples to have a rough example of what your ni sync client connection to the server and calls might look like generally.