Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:25:39 +0000

Hi Maren,

I know that others have used the EPICS Modbus module to talk to similar ADAM modules (e.g. 6060).  It should be straightforward to use the 6050, since it is just the Modbus register locations that differ from model to model.

Asyn and Modbus won't work on 3.13.8.  But since this is an Ethernet device, you could run your IOC on a Linux (or Windows) machine.  You would just need to build:

EPICS base
Asyn
Modbus

Cheers,
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Maren Purves
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 5:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Modbus Device Support for Advantech ADAM6050?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> this is a bit of a long shot, but I got to ask:
> 
> we have an Advantech ADAM 6050 that I'd like to talk to/read
> out from EPICS, mostly read out, to monitor something, basically,
> monitor bits. We're trying to use the same equipment that
> the rest of the hardware it came with is using - but we'd
> like to get the monitoring output into our existing EPICS
> framework
> 
> We're still running 3.13.8 and for all I know we don't
> have asyn, so I very much doubt that we have any asyn
> experience in house. (The other PLCs we're using are
> Allen Bradley).
> 
> Has anybody used one of these things, and if so, where do
> I start, or should I rather start from the icedTea stack
> dump I get when trying to access the thing from a web
> browser?
> 
> Thanks,
> Maren

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System