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Blog: Connecting Mitsubishi PLCs to Node-RED #2467

Open sumitshinde-84 opened 2 months ago

sumitshinde-84 commented 2 months ago

Description

Write a blog post on using node-red-contrib-mcprotocol-ind to connect Mitsubishi PLCs to Node-RED. Include installation steps, key features, basic setup, and practical examples.

Epic/Story

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Have you provided an initial effort estimate for this issue?

I have provided an initial effort estimate

sumitshinde-84 commented 2 months ago

Need to find the simulation software

Steve-Mcl commented 2 months ago

From what I recall, there is no sim software that you can connect to externally.

I did write a set of flows that very basically responded to the data requests and responded with results but the blog post would end up quite thin (i.e. only on the node usability side without any of the setup side).

Additionally, there are a shed load of different ways to setup Ethernet comms from the old A -> AnQ -> FX -> Q ->R series and 2 different applications. Then there is routing across the PLC networks etc.

My recommendation here is to pick up some cheap 2nd hand hardware and "really" do it.

Also, why are you looking at node-red-contrib-mcprotocol-ind

This is (as far as i can tell) straight duplication of the original node I wrote and maintain node-red-contrib-mcprotocol.

The source is here: https://github.com/Steve-Mcl/node-red-contrib-mcprotocol image

Whereas the src for the -ind copy is not published (not that I can find) image

which is suspect!

sumitshinde-84 commented 2 months ago

Thanks for the insights @Steve-Mcl ! I’ll consider using actual hardware and look for a cheap second-hand option. Regarding the node, I wasn’t aware of the original, but I appreciate you pointing me to it. Also Feel free to create a GitHub issue for more blog ideas related manufacturing — I’d love to write about them!