Hi Everyone!
Where are my experts?
I am undertaking a project at work. The project contains analog style motor positioning circuits (operational amplifiers, integrators, and other PI elements). Not that this is relevant to the post yet ;) .It's my first PLC project ever!
I am using the Schneider M258 with SoMachine 4.1
The PLC is talking to SoMachine via Ethernet (obviously I have a router between the PLC and my pc).I can Login and run the first POU I created. It's a simple And logic circuit for now.
I have a co worker (c programmer) agreeing to help me pass data from my PLC to a browser screen. Although he's not familiar with PLC he's quite skilled writing code. He has wrote a Modbus protocol which allows him to interpret Modbus commands on his desktop.
1) Do I Need any special hardware to pass the data out of the PLC into the Router then into his browser.
2) As a trial can I send him MODBUS commands regarding my AND circuit?
3) How do I create such a command?
4) Is it possible for him to send me Modbus commands to change variables inside my program?
5) Are there web browser "plug-ins" for this idea?
Thanks for reading and hopefully all of you can help me answer some of these questions.