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Curt Wuollet
Hi Peter,
I know we can do SNMP (most Linux distros include some of this) but I haven't seen any IO oriented stuff, perhaps I'm missing semething. I've worked with SNMP for watching terminal concentrators once upon a time. I'd like not to have to extend an established protocol. BACNET is worth revisiting. I looked at it quite a while ago.
I really don't remember what turned me off. There's also that finding obscure Open protocols for our project wouldn't be nearly as useful to the whole automation community as opening some very prevalent ones. We could really use fewer instead of more. And we are going to have to support the top 5 (10, 20? ) somehow. The very best result would be for an existing, popular
protocol owner to take a shot at becoming a cross platform standard by simply removing the barriers. Some who are very close would have very little to lose and everything to gain.
Regards
cww
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I know we can do SNMP (most Linux distros include some of this) but I haven't seen any IO oriented stuff, perhaps I'm missing semething. I've worked with SNMP for watching terminal concentrators once upon a time. I'd like not to have to extend an established protocol. BACNET is worth revisiting. I looked at it quite a while ago.
I really don't remember what turned me off. There's also that finding obscure Open protocols for our project wouldn't be nearly as useful to the whole automation community as opening some very prevalent ones. We could really use fewer instead of more. And we are going to have to support the top 5 (10, 20? ) somehow. The very best result would be for an existing, popular
protocol owner to take a shot at becoming a cross platform standard by simply removing the barriers. Some who are very close would have very little to lose and everything to gain.
Regards
cww
--
Free Tools!
Machine Automation Tools (LinuxPLC) Free, Truly Open & Publicly Owned
Industrial Automation Software For Linux. mat.sourceforge.net.
Day Job: Heartland Engineering, Automation & ATE for Automotive
Rebuilders.
Consultancy: Wide Open Technologies: Moving Business & Automation to
Linux.