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- Windows, real time
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- PCs vs. PLCs
- Replacing people
- MS 'monopoly'?
- Software quality
- Where do we go from here?
- Why pay?
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I would like to read a text string from a device which connected to the serial port and save this string to a text file or in to a database..
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By M Griffin on 30 October, 2008 - 12:11 pm -
In reply to Curt Wuollet, be prepared for an endeavour to get anything working on WINE/Codeweavers...
By James Ingraham on 29 October, 2008 - 5:53 pm -
As a follow up, here's some info from the Visual Studio Express FAQ at
...
By James Ingraham on 29 October, 2008 - 2:48 pm -
M Griffin: "I believe Microsoft's developer tools division is profitable."
It's hard...
By Curt Wuollet on 29 October, 2008 - 1:24 am -
Actually, a one day event (and extreme boredom with the whole proprietary meadow muffin) has...
By M Griffin on 28 October, 2008 - 4:14 am -
James Ingraham: "MS can give their dev tools away (or at least a trimmed-down version) for...
By James Ingraham on 27 October, 2008 - 12:45 pm -
cww: "Of course, there's also the problem of having to have Windows on a machine. I suppose...
By Curt Wuollet on 25 October, 2008 - 4:13 am -
Of course, there's also the problem of having to have Windows on a machine. I suppose I'd have to...
By M Griffin on 25 October, 2008 - 1:32 am -
As far as compilers go, gcc works on MS Windows. You have to figure out how to get cygwin or mingw...
By James Ingraham on 24 October, 2008 - 12:46 pm -
cww: "No idea for Windows, never got up the cash or the interest to buy a compiler."
...
By Curt Wuollet on 24 October, 2008 - 12:28 am -
I'd assume Windows, as in Linux reading the serial port buffer is the same as reading any other...
By James Ingraham on 23 October, 2008 - 12:35 pm -
As always, the more details the better. In this case, the most pressing questions are:
What...
By Krishna on 22 October, 2008 - 6:25 pm -
Can someone send me code which reads data from the serial port and stores it in a file? Please help...
By Dolphin on 14 May, 2008 - 11:47 pm -
If you are still interested, I had to adapt a class in C++ to make it work under Linux.
The code...
By rohit on 20 September, 2007 - 1:15 pm -
Request for the code to read data from com1 port.
Mail id: ursfriendlyrohit@yahoo.com...
New release of open source Web Based HMI.
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By pv on 30 October, 2008 - 8:59 am -
Here is another Open Source HMI/SCADA system.
http://pvbrowser.org
"pvbrowser is an...
By Curt Wuollet on 30 October, 2008 - 1:15 am -
I wonder what happened to the Rockwell patent that purports to cover any use of a browser with PLC...
Hi!
I have been working on something similar based on ruby on rails. Your work is very...
By M Griffin on 29 October, 2008 - 3:17 am -
With regards to how IE handles SVG, the answer is a bit more complicated. There are two ways of...
By Curt Wuollet on 28 October, 2008 - 10:26 pm -
Way to go Michael!
Regards
cww...
By James Ingraham on 28 October, 2008 - 2:43 pm -
Awesome. I hope to get a chance to check it out.
"It *won't* work with Microsoft IE, as...
I'm searching for a open source SCADA system, any ideas?
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By pvbrowser on 30 September, 2008 - 4:46 am -
>I'm talking about a
>package that's easy to install,
>configure, and get going. <
...
By Nathan Boeger on 29 September, 2008 - 12:40 pm -
I believe I am up to date. We've had this conversation several times on this forum - I gave you...
By pvbrowser on 28 September, 2008 - 1:57 am -
Hi Nathan,
are you really up to date ?
...
By Nathan Boeger on 26 September, 2008 - 3:43 am -
Hate to burst your bubble. Open source is weak in the HMI/SCADA/PLC/Industrial Automation industry....
Hi.
What characteristics do you need for your open source system?...
Seeking advice on integrating the (OSI) PI OPC HDA client to Yokogawa ExaOPC HDA server
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What are you trying to achieve? To store data from Yokogawa PLC to PI server or the other way...
By Jason on 28 September, 2008 - 4:46 am -
Hi Anonymous, I have a feeling that one of our guys has had experience with Yokogawa OPC and...
I need to connect one ACE3600 RTU (of MOSCAD family) with LMHF-SSC (rectifier control card)
I have a KMD system running my facility. KMC has decide they no long want to support the product. Is there an alternative?
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By Curt Jeffreys on 21 August, 2008 - 12:18 am -
John,
I developed a gateway to replace the KMC Multinet/LAN controller for my company. It...
I have a new release for my MBLogic Free Software project...
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By Michael Griffin on 6 August, 2008 - 12:52 am -
In reply to Per Stenebo: I see that I need to get my act together and activate some more of the...
By Per Stenebo on 4 August, 2008 - 11:29 pm -
This is great!
I've just tested mbsyncserver and mbpoll and it works well.
I'm working on a...
By Curt Wuollet on 29 June, 2008 - 4:18 pm -
That's great, Michael!
If I get some time, I'll take a look. Finally got high speed Internet 2...
Interface and data details reqd for ABB Open Control System consisting of many ABB Advant 410 / 110 controllers
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By Dave on 19 July, 2008 - 12:00 am -
I noticed that you are running many MP110/410 Masterpiece controllers, like us.
There is a...
Features of Puffin SCADA's project
Open Modbus Applications for Mac OS X ready for review...
A problem about libnodave: Fill in what you need for your OS or API.
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By bart on 28 May, 2008 - 9:15 pm -
Hi, dchartier, Michael Griffin.
Thanks for your answers.
Yesterday, I compiled the program in...
By dchartier on 26 May, 2008 - 12:33 pm -
Hello Bart;
Libnodave was originally written for Linux, but they support Windows compilers:
The...
By Michael Griffin on 26 May, 2008 - 12:32 pm -
In the "README.compiling" file, it says:
##############
How to compile in different...
By bart on 25 May, 2008 - 10:12 pm -
OS is Windows XP SP2,complier is Visual Studio 6.0 and Broland c++ complier 5.5. Can the libnodave...
I have a new software project that I have been working on, and I would like to offer it for review and comment.
can a pc's RS232 be used as power source?
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By C Potdar on 20 April, 2008 - 5:01 pm -
Only constraint is that you will not be able to drive large loads. You can drive LEDs or solid...
I need to acquire data of a DNP 3.0 slave to allow a CS1 Omron PLC take data for its process control.
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By brokenwire on 13 November, 2007 - 1:04 am -
I had the same problem any time and solved it using 2 OPC servers: CX OPC server from Omron and IO...
OPC and/or SOAP Examples
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By rondrob66 on 3 October, 2007 - 10:43 pm -
I have used OPC many times, I did once use a third party OPC server on a remote PC from the...
I want to know if I can use for OPC server client authentication any account with adminstrator privileges.
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By Fred Loveless on 12 September, 2007 - 12:48 am -
In OPC Authentication is currently handled by DCOM Security. This means that you have to ensure...
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