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hilch / brwatch

brwatch: service tool for B&R plc: watch, change, log variables, set ip adresses etc.
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Closed RagavL closed 3 years ago

RagavL commented 3 years ago

I understand it works only on Windows.I have Nvdia nanojetson with ubuntu installed and I am trying to connect to B&R PLC.Can this help?

hilch commented 3 years ago

what is your goal ? OpcUA might be a good alternative if you just want to read from and write to PLC variables. Brwatch relies on PVI which comes for MS Windows only. But it could work on Linux (x86) with wine. Just try a RUC package installation which containts all necessary dll files as original installer wont work here.

RagavL commented 3 years ago

Appreciate your help.I am trying to connect to B&R PLC to extract data and do processing on Nanojetson and based on result send back instruction to PLC

hilch commented 3 years ago

hmm then PVI might not be for your project (and brwatch not at all).

alternative 1: use this open source OPC-UA stack as client: https://open62541.org/ I already used it in this project: https://github.com/hilch/control-three-delta-robots

alternative 2: use own TCP or UDP protocol. B&R server example: https://github.com/hilch/demo-AsTcp-AsUdp