![]() To end the day with an achievement, albeit a small and insignificant achievement, feels good for the soul! With aging equipment in work and imminent plant closure, it’s been an emotionally difficult and frustrating day trying to make a repair. Well, with just a little more effort, that was also achieved.Ģ very boring indications reflecting the status change in the PLC.īut achieving this tonight has been good for my mind. Once that was corrected, comms was up and running! I could see the node status change!Ĭould I push a little more and get an initial dashboard up and running too? Onto installing the S7 package for Node Red and then finding out the addressing is typed differently than it would be in the S7ĮG: DB10.DBX0.5 in S7 needs to be addressed as DB10,X0.5 in the Pi Turns out it doesn’t like running a browser on the Pi when Node Red is running in the background, it goes awfully slow!įigured that out and used a browser on my PC instead, leaving the Pi to do its work in the background. Initial issues running node red on the pi to overcome. The goal was simply to get comms to the Siemens #S7 #plc and to prove that, I needed to see the status change within the node. Tonight, I finally sat down to have a play. The other day I installed #nodered on my spare Raspberry Pi ![]() ![]() ![]() Not much to look at, but it meant something had been successfully accomplished to get comms up and running.Ī “woohoo!” Moment and something to be excited about! One of my #linkedin contacts (I can’t remember who!) posted something similar not so long ago, where a view of a watch table was showing a bit change from true to false. “It may not seem like much, but this simple change shown on the display means so much…” ![]()
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