+1 Chris
(Hmmm ... being in the PPMC ... do I have a "binding" vote in this?) Chris Am 03.08.18, 15:41 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]>: Hi all, We have recently discussed changing something to allow defining not only the Java-Side type, but also the expected type in the PLC. For the S7 protocol, we propose to extend the “S7Address” by an additional plcType. While at it we would also like to change the general format of the S7 Address Strings To the format used in Siemens’ TIA Portal software as this simplifies the communication between automation engineers and software developers. We would append the plcType to these addresses in the address string and a fully qualified S7 Resource would look like this: %DB3.DBX0.0:BOOL (Boolean variable in the DataBlock DB3 which consumes one bit of memory) %DB3.DBW2:INT (Int variable in DataBlock DB3 which consumes one word (two byte) of memory) %DB3.DBD4:REAL (Real variable in DataBlock DB3 which consumes one double-word (four bytes) of memory) %DB3.DBB8:BYTE (Byte variable in DataBlock DB3 which consumes one byte of memory) %I0.1:BOOL (Boolean input variable referring to the second digital input of the PLC) %M0.3:BOOL (Boolean output variable referring to the fourth digital output of the PLC) %IW64:DOUBLE (Double input variable referring to one of the analog inputs of the PLC) Please Vote in this thread and take discussions into the [DISCUSS] thread. Chris PS: I know this is overkill, but I want to practice voting on stuff here with you ;-)
