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How to authenticate the AXC F 2152 to a network using 802.1X

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. One of those standards is… Read More

Install the GNU Guix package manager

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… Read More

Additional how-to guides

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… Read More

Modbus TCP with Python on AXC F 2152

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. Introduction This article will go over the… Read More

How to start Node-red automatically on boot using init.d

Control your application with voice commands

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… Read More

Automate your development workflow with Visual Studio Code

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… Read More

How to include an open-source library in your own C++ project

How to use SQLite in a PLCnext C++ project

HowTo build a new kernel for the AXC F 2152 FW 2019.0

To try out open source packages like Docker that require kernel parameters which are not enabled in the kernel of the standard firmware, it might be necessary to build and install an altered kernel on a PLCnext Control. This How-To will guide you through this process. You need to get… Read More