My goal and new perspective on the problem is to design a system which is as simple as possible. If not, the Firmware may need to be updated to resolve this. NI can run on linux and there is a native mono for linux written by Miguel de Icaza, so the potential is there, but it would require some re-writting. You can download the Home Edition software for free, here. However, developers of alternative programming environments may be able to implement this.
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