Hi guys,
I'm in a position at the moment in which I have many communication stacks programmed for many PLCs (Siemens, Rockwell, GE, Schneider, Omron) and I'm thinking about developing a proper monitor software for monitoring the PLCs registers.
I originate from PC programming, and while I do have some experience in programming and maintaining PLCs, I don't have much. From what I've gathered though, it seems that monitoring PLC values (without getting into an HMI project) is always an issue, and is always different with every PLC brand.
So I thought of first creating an API for reading registers in Python, C or C#, and to add in a Monitor GUI application that will have some graphing, importing, and exporting involved, for those of us not into scripting.
Is this something that you, as a PLC maintainer, would like to have?
And how much do you think should something like this cost?
Thanks
Nitay
I'm in a position at the moment in which I have many communication stacks programmed for many PLCs (Siemens, Rockwell, GE, Schneider, Omron) and I'm thinking about developing a proper monitor software for monitoring the PLCs registers.
I originate from PC programming, and while I do have some experience in programming and maintaining PLCs, I don't have much. From what I've gathered though, it seems that monitoring PLC values (without getting into an HMI project) is always an issue, and is always different with every PLC brand.
So I thought of first creating an API for reading registers in Python, C or C#, and to add in a Monitor GUI application that will have some graphing, importing, and exporting involved, for those of us not into scripting.
Is this something that you, as a PLC maintainer, would like to have?
And how much do you think should something like this cost?
Thanks
Nitay