Display product image and info on a monitor at changeover

[ManFromMichigan]

Hello,

I have been asked to do this, and if it was on an HMI it would be no problem for me to do. But how they would like it done is to be hosted by a computer such as an excel file, display to a big TV monitor, triggered by AB control logix recipe (string data type).

Anyone with any experience with this could point me in the right direction? Is there some sort of gateway that can call excel tabs or individual files from the PLC to do this? Or a kind of software?

Thank you!

 

[alexmorrish]

You could pull the tag into the PC using pycomm3.


https://pypi.org/project/pycomm3/


From there you can do anything python can do. Not sure how to accomplish the rest but this could get you half way.

 

[Ken Moore]

Take a look at AdvancedHMI.
https://www.advancedhmi.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=20

 

[GaryS]

I would use net studio on a PC
you an do almost anything with it.

 

[jhenson29]

Node.js with JavaScript or TypeScript is an option also.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ethernet-ip

Anything you do is going to be programmed elsewhere and will have to read the data from the PLC to perform the task.

How do they want it displayed? I would use a Pi running chromium in kiosk mode. Then you can just manage a small web server that reads the PLC and updates the page as needed.

What is the excel file for? Is it just source data for what to display?