KNX – OPC UA Gateway with Node-Red

Important: This post is outdated! The APP is no longer available. Some things might not work or need to be adapted. Your PLCnext Team This post explains… Read More

Using methods in IEC 61131-3 programming language

PLCnext Engineer supports object-oriented programming for function blocks by using methods. By adding a method to a user-defined function block POU, the function block is defined as an object-oriented function block. To give you a good overview about methods, we will program a small function block with a… Read More

Glossary of abbreviations

I wrote the article about common abbreviations. This small glossary defines main technical terms and abbreviations used in PLCnext Technology. It is located here. As it is open GitHub-based project don’t hesitate to propose additional explanations. Every feedback is welcome.

Once again about logging

I continue my work to document PLCnext Technology from the user side. There is a good article about logging. But as “God is in the detail“, I’ve written some post with extra information. It is located here. Every feedback is welcome. Read More

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. 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. 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++… 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… 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… Read More