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Python wrapper for TwinCAT ADS
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Feature request: support TwinCAT automation interface #330

Closed rerpha closed 1 year ago

rerpha commented 1 year ago

As someone who configures twincat devices I would like there to be a method in python to automate the process. Currently there are c++ and .NET interfaces to do this from c++/C#, but no method i am aware of from python.

If this is considered out of scope for pyads no worries, feel free to close

docs: https://infosys.beckhoff.com/content/1033/tc3_automationinterface/index.html

chrisbeardy commented 1 year ago

I think this is outside of scope of this library as the automation interface uses a completely different mechanism and has a different purpose. However I know of no other libraries that makes the AI interface available to python so it would be cool to start looking at it, maybe you could take a look if you already use the AI? I think all the calls are just COM calls, currently dont know how to do that using python but sure there is a way, could just wrote a wrapper using pythonnet maybe....

rerpha commented 1 year ago

fair enough - will close this issue. I can't say I do either, but will do some digging.