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from the Automation List department...

Using SAE standards content in open source projects

Originally posted by Heinz-Juergen Oertel on 30 September, 2005 - 1:03 am

Is using the information obtained by reading the standard to write a computer program that should be released in source code a kind of "republishing"?

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By Curt Wuollet on 9 October, 2005 - 3:22 pm -

Hi Dick I agree, but if the society wanted to, they could put you under with a legal challenge. It...

By Curt Wuollet on 9 October, 2005 - 3:20 pm -

This is one of many such troubling issues with using non-free standards and protocols. And I've...

By Michael Griffin on 2 October, 2005 - 2:31 pm -

By Dick Caro on 1 October, 2005 - 12:03 am -

No, you are supposed to use any standard to create new works. Copyright means only that you may not...

By Rainer on 30 September, 2005 - 10:49 pm -

If I understand you right, you read information from the CAN bus. - you don't link against...

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from the Automation List department...

Open Source SCADA systems

Originally posted by novo on 25 September, 2003 - 12:22 pm

I need some information about existing (and possibly evolving) Open Source SCADA systems.

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By Anonymous on 28 September, 2005 - 1:01 am -

Data Flow Systems HyperTACII HMI runs on Redhat Linux using MySQL and Internet Explorer or Netscape...

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from the Automation List department...

Resources for Microsoft Outlook to OPC

Originally posted by CooLSmurf on 7 September, 2005 - 10:31 pm

Resources for Microsoft Outlook to OPC

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By Michael Griffin on 15 September, 2005 - 1:58 am -

In reply to Dennis - What would be needed to be added to the paging system you have described is: ...

By denn on 13 September, 2005 - 10:55 pm -

Michael 10 years ago I used a product called Win911 to inform an operator(s) of problems at a...

By Michael Griffin on 12 September, 2005 - 8:50 pm -

In reply to Jonas Berge - I don't think that using MS-Outlook (or other similar calendaring...

By Jonas Berge on 11 September, 2005 - 3:44 pm -

Not sure, but try this: http://www.matrikonopc.com/products/opc-drivers/details.asp?driver=943 ...

By Michael Griffin on 9 September, 2005 - 10:32 pm -

Send e-mails to a PC, with the command as part of the subject (or the first line of the contents)....

By Matt on 9 September, 2005 - 2:01 am -

If you are using HMI software E.G RSView, Citect, etc., write a bit of code to send you an Email or...

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from the I Need Help department...

OPC and VB6 - Simple Remote Solution?

Originally posted by Jeff Gobatto on 6 April, 2004 - 12:42 pm

Need a *simple* solution for OPC read/writes for remote servers.

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By Anonymous on 12 September, 2005 - 9:37 pm -

Find out where the error occurs... it could be "Method Connect of OPCServer failed" or...

By Vishal on 8 September, 2005 - 3:46 pm -

Please check your tag names in PLC side. If any tag missing then it fires that error Error: Method...

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from the Automation List department...

Simulation program for Linux

Originally posted by Jacob Kroon on 20 August, 2005 - 2:55 pm

I started writing a program for simulating control systems...

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By Jacob Kroon on 27 August, 2005 - 1:40 pm -

Hi Michael, Tarball is now available here: ...

By Friedrich Haase on 26 August, 2005 - 5:33 pm -

Moin Jacob, moin all, Matlab has Simulink but for Octave there is nothing similar (as far as I...

By Michael Griffin on 25 August, 2005 - 1:51 pm -

Would you be able to put up a tarball of a snapshot? I haven't used git before, and when I followed...

By Jacob Kroon on 24 August, 2005 - 4:23 pm -

Hi Jiri, The Scicos/Scilab project indeed seems to be quite similar to what I want to achieve...

By Jiri Baum on 23 August, 2005 - 2:11 pm -

Hello, One should perhaps note that scicos and scilab are not Free / Open Source. In particular,...

By Aurelio Costa on 22 August, 2005 - 6:00 pm -

You're doing a good work, but have you ever seen scicos project from scilab group? URL:...

By Marc Le Douarain on 22 August, 2005 - 5:38 pm -

Very interesting project. Good luck to go on... It needs lot of courage to develop/maintain a...

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from the Automation List department...

OPC and VAX

Originally posted by Stish on 4 August, 2005 - 12:36 am

OPC and VAX communication

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By Russell Tolsma on 24 August, 2005 - 3:03 pm -

Talk to someone from Matrikon Inc. or check out their website at http://www.matrikonopc.com. They...

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from the Automation List department...

gcc and php

Originally posted by nandos on 12 August, 2005 - 4:38 pm

i plan to linking gcc project with my web base application such php

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By Michael Griffin on 13 August, 2005 - 4:34 pm -

There are lots of books and web resources on PHP as it is one of the most common programming...

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from the serious department...

Neuro fuzzy level control

Originally posted by Albert De Freitas on 31 October, 2003 - 9:16 am

Can fuzzy or neuro fuzzy be used for control?

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By Anonymous on 3 August, 2005 - 6:25 pm -

Well as far as i know fuzzy control are basically implemented to know the exact condition. for...

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from the //UJ department...

Profibus remote I/O 110VDC ????

Originally posted by //UJ on 18 June, 2004 - 2:03 pm

Looking for remote I/O with profibus interface and 110VDC and channal with time-stamp

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By AUTONIC05 on 3 August, 2005 - 6:24 pm -

Well you have to use IM153-2 card for timestamp signal. it is an remote interface module with time...

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from the AMS department...

OPC Server writing alarms to LCN

Originally posted by siddharth on 11 May, 2005 - 10:40 pm

I have developed a custom OPC client which picks up data from LCN and writes back to specific TDC3000 tags. I want to include an additional point that whenever an OPC Server is writing to LCN it should invoke alarms to notify the operators that OPC Server is writing.

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By Tarik on 3 August, 2005 - 6:17 pm -

Kamran, You should have installed APP to connect other systems over ethernet. I'm sure local...

By Kamran on 5 July, 2005 - 6:47 pm -

Dear sid, i intend to develop more-or-less same software as what you have developed. i wud...

By Anonymous on 4 July, 2005 - 1:58 pm -

Thanks for your response. Actually I have craeted a DLL in Visual Basic and a GUI in same to...

By Zahid on 27 June, 2005 - 9:41 am -

Could you please let me know which PC interface card did you use to connect to LCN?...

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from the c++ code for linux department...

Simple C or C++ script to read serial port buffer

Originally posted by Obscurius on 27 August, 2004 - 1:31 am

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 nitin on 14 June, 2005 - 11:17 pm -

solution:

 1> open the port:
 
       fd = open("/dev/ttyS0",...

By Anonymous on 2 May, 2005 - 5:01 pm -

did you have a solution of ur problem? can u help me plz? I need also to read the contents of my...

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from the Automation List department...

Problem with OPC OPCGroups VB.NET 2003

Originally posted by Geir Bakke on 2 December, 2003 - 10:54 pm

An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred in WindowsApplication2.exe

Additional information: QueryInterface for interface OPCAutomation.IOPCGroups failed.

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By Pascal Brunot on 13 June, 2005 - 1:11 pm -

Just update your OPCDAAuto.dll in c:\windows\system32 to one more recent version. You can download...

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from the Automation List department...

MODBUS & "compliance"

Originally posted by Anonymous on 11 June, 2005 - 9:25 am

Is compliance testing required to say that my device is Modbus "compatible" or that it uses the modbus protocol?

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By Curt Wuollet on 12 June, 2005 - 10:31 am -

I'm not sure there would be much ModBus out there if compliance testing were enforced. The spec is...

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from the Automation List department...

PLC5 and ABEL

Originally posted by Anonymous on 17 August, 2004 - 3:17 pm

I am trying to communicate with AB PLC 5 using the ABEL library from a Linux Machine...

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By Ross on 26 May, 2005 - 11:06 pm -

The default word size for SLC is 16 bits and the default for PLC5 is 8 bits. Try sending a...

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from the Automation List department...

Honeywell Plantscape 300

Posted by CS9806 on 24 May, 2005 - 9:51 pm

Making Honeywell Plantscape R300 OPC Server enable.

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