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Hello PLCnext Community,
Cybersecurity is a main topic inside the PLCnext Technology and in general for the Industrial world.
The PLCnext Technology provides a wide range of solutions to make an installation more secure.
Some standards are also existing to make a network, in general, more secure.
This article describes how to install the GNU Guix package manager on the AXC F 2152. GNU Guix is a functional package manager that offers transactional, reproducible, per-user package management. GNU Guix can be installed on top of an existing Linux system where it complements the available tools without interference. Guix could be used to install packages to provide for example a gcc toolchain or python 2 on a per-user level. There is an excellent explanation in the manual on how to install Guix on the GNU homepage. This article will guide you trough the process of installing GNU Guix.
There is also an adapted shell installer script based on the GNU Guix installer script. The script automates the download, installation, and initial configuration steps described below. It should be run as the root user. You can download the script from the GitHub Gist.
Today PLCnext Technology is developing rapidly and it’s hard to support how-to documentation to be in pace with technology, so I decided to create an open GitHub-based project with documentation, written in *.md style - PLCnext_howto.
To begin, I described the installation process (Ubuntu, C++ programming with Eclipse® IDE). In addition, I shared my experience in configuring Eclipse® IDE to develop without using PLCnCLI.
Every feedback is welcome.
Hello PLCnext Community,
this contribution is a prototype implementation put together by our USA solution engineer Josh Krug. If you have any question please reach out to us, or ask over here in the forum on the PLCnext Community. Thanks, and stay tuned for more.
This article will go over the steps to communicate to a Modbus bus coupler using a Python script.
This document covers the following procedures:
This procedure describes how to start Node-red automatically when the PLCnext starts. It is a alternative to pm2 that apparently it is not working with the node from PLCnext Store.
The idea is to include a script to run in init.d directory. The script bellow was adapted from the script found in the node-red page.
For the voice recognition we use a device which is developed by a German company called voice INTER connect. Together with another company phytec they created the voice control kit.
It is a combination of a small embedded single board computer of phytec together with the industrial voice control board of voice INTER connect. The voice control supports 30 languages and works completely offline. The spoken commands are sent out via MQTT in json format..
We liked this board so much that we integrated it in our parcel turning device training hardware.
In my last post I wrote about our development setup to write C++ for PLCnext here in IMA Engineering at Phoenix Contact Deutschland GmbH. So you maybe already know that we are using Visual Studio Code to write C++ for PLCnext. In this post I want to show you how you can automate and therefore shorten your deploy and development cycle with Visual Studio Code tasks.
When developing components and programs for PLCnext in C++, it is often required to use functions provided by external, open source libraries. Open source libraries are available for applications including:
PLCnext Technology allows functions in external libraries to be called directly from real-time, deterministic control programs.
This guide describes how to use a third-party open-source library in a C++ project that is built for PLCnext Control using Eclipse.
NOTE: When using third-party software, it is the responsibility of the user to ensure that all license conditions are complied with.
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