Once you have your Phoenix Contact PLCnext Control data flowing to the cloud, it’s time to setup alerts and notifications so that you can easily monitor everything. I prefer using Microsoft Logic Apps for sending email and text alerts when temperatures rise above a specified threshold. But first things first,… Read More
Once you have your Phoenix Contact PLCnext Control data flowing to the cloud, it’s time to create some Grafana Dashboards so that you can easily monitor everything. But first things first, let’s get our PLCnext Control connected to Microsoft Azure. Phoenix Contact has a video at … Read More
How to connect Factory I/O with PLCnext Factory I/O is a virtual environment that is designed to be linked with PLC’s in order to teach, test and train. It is a great addition to get to know PLCnext other then the inputs and outputs provided by the starter kit. You… Read More
The Tankerkönig API provides easy access to the current fuel prices of all registered gas stations in Germany. All 14,000+ petrol stations in Germany must report the prices for Super E5, Super E10 and diesel to this department of the Federal Cartel Office in a timely manner. Access to this data is… Read More
Hi PLCnext’s guy Preamble Yesterday thank to Jan Christoph Müller I have installed ioBroker on my PLCnext device (EPC 1522). I’m now happy to share it with you. Problem/target: I have: Pluggit ventilator, which works with Modbus TCP. Last month I have made a small project with Visu+. But I’m… Read More
Hello all, In this blog post we will be exploring simple and complex datatypes in C++ and PLCnext Engineer. It wil contain two distinct parts, a simple and complex exercise. This tutorial assumes you have some experience with C++ and PLCnext Engineer. start First you wil need the right… Read More
After I read the great blog entry from Dries about running Node-Red in a docker container, I thought it would be a could idea to share some tips. The data of a container is not persistent, i.e. it is lost when the container will be deleted. In Docker and balenaEngine there… Read More
A Docker container can be used to run a node-RED server on a PLCnext device. Although the other method described here is a little faster. The use of OCI containers comes with some advantages. For example when repeatedly using the same packages for an application it can be… Read More
This blog will guide you through the first steps on building an application with Go on the PLCnext. For those who are unfamiliar with Go, I like to cite the reference website www.golang.org Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build… Read More
Hello, Friends of the PLCnext Technology. A Customer asked me for a Retain Measurement of Operating Hours in the PLCnext Engineer. Unfortunately there wasn’t anything available. So i created my own Function Block. Here is all the information you need to use it yourself. It automatically creates a second impuls… Read More
