Python is a powerful language with plenty of applications for Industrie 4.0, including Machine Learning and Cloud connectivity, so it’s a natural fit for applications that use PLCnext Technology. In this episode of Automation Maker, we look at how to install Python and PIP on a PLCnext Control. Read More
This demonstration was our highlight in the Phoenix Contact IoT zone during Automation India Expo 2018: … Read More
In the previous months I prepared the PLCnext Technology exhibition wall for the showroom in our Polish Phoenix Contact subsidiary and I would like to show it to the community. I made the applications with as many technologies as I was able to, that’s why I used MQTT, OPC UA, Node-RED, Google Home etc. These four example… Read More
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Useful links:Optware-ng project on GithCommands to install and use ipkg… Read More
If you’re a C# programmer working with a PLCnext Control then you might want to use the Microsoft® .NET Core runtime. Here’s how to install it on an AXC F 2152 control. Set up the runtime on the PLC Download the Dotnetcore Runtime Binaries (Microsoft .NET Core download site); for… Read More
Mosquitto is an open source project to implement an MQTT client to your system. The MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) protocol is made for machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity, basing on an extremely lightweight messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with… Read More
libcurl – the multiprotocol file transfer library libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user + password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and… Read More
The Libwebsockets API (“LWS”) covers a lot of interesting features for people making embedded servers or clients: HTTP(S) serving and client operation HTTP/2 support for serving WS(S) serving and client operation HTTP(S) apis for file transfer and upload HTTP 1 + 2 POST form handling (including multipart / file… Read More
OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) is a cross-platform and free-for-use library for use in the emerging field of computer vision, a science on how computers extract information from digital images or videos. It’s about acquiring and processing visual data, and making decisions and performing actions based on the analysis. OpenCV… Read More
