Thanks Lukas, Let me go through the video and will post updated about my POC status in this thread.
On Monday, May 18, 2020, Lukas Ott <ott.lukas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Venki welcome to the PLC4X community, > > First direction we can point you to is the webinar from Julian: > https://youtu.be/MIp_0OcDTr4 There he shows in detail how to connect > Siemens PLCs to PLC4X. > Additionally he shows you how to connect to a simulated PLC server which is > maybe what you are looking for to test and develop your application with > the Kafka connector. > > Best regards, > Lukas > > Am Mo., 18. Mai 2020 um 16:04 Uhr schrieb venki hadoop < > hadoopons...@gmail.com>: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: *venki hadoop* <hadoopons...@gmail.com> > > Date: Saturday, May 16, 2020 > > Subject: Exploring Plc4x > > To: dev-subscr...@plc4x.apache.org > > Cc: chtistofer.d...@c-ware.de > > > > > > Hello Everyone, > > Am a big data/cloud architect working on analytics from > > India. Was working in IOT industry since 2 years with different clients > but > > mostly on analytics side than machine side. Recently when exploring about > > IIOT got to know about plc4x tool. Since then trying to explore and > present > > to larger audience in my company if it suits our requirements. > > So what am > > planning right now is : Read > > streaming data from siemens device and push it Kafka from there > dashboard. > > From examples provided in documentation was able to easily correlate > > pushing data into Kafka and afterwards. But as I don't have any > experience > > it's hard to understand for me about the device configuration and > > integrating with plc4x( I know this are basic plc questions, please bear > me > > with me for some time). Now in order to start my poc, I need fallowing > > information. Can someone help me on this. 1. Any siemens plc > > device simulator for poc? 2. What configuration we > > need and we have to check from plc side( assuming I have some temperature > > kind of sensor). > > 3. How to point to plc output data from Kafka > > connect?( Was confused with memory blocks, fields, etc in the code). > > > > I know this are very basic questions from plc side, but my no > > experience with plc side make me hard to understand using Google. > > Last but not least, thanks > > Christofer for introducing me for this platform and plc4x tool. > > Best Regards, > > >
