bryanb wrote:
The only problem with all of these drivers is that they communicate via Ethernet. We are using the serial B3000 brains and LCM4 serial communications. Not even the first version of ioManager looks at the serial versions but all are based on the Ethernet communication.
Ah, now I see. We don't have any out of the box drivers that will talk to an Opto device serially. Unless the LCM4 or B3000 can act as a Modbus slave (I know certain Opto devices are capable of behaving that way.
bryanb wrote:
Any ideas if there is a way to perform a mem map function from the G70? If we could connect the two and have the function already available, it would make life easier at this time.
Thanks for your quick response. We already talked to Opto and they said they are not compatible. We also tend to think larger and have no problem with the impossible.
The G70 does not directly support being a memory map "host" (i.e. there are not memory map locations on it that can be read or written via the IEEE1394 protocol). The G70 can be a memory map "client" -- which is what it does when it talks with the Ethernet io. The memory map drivers unfortunately only support ethernet communication and we are, unfortunately, not able to release the source code to those drivers for you to modify to be serial based (which wouldn't be too difficult).
There are probably several possible solutions to your problem. The fact that the G70 itself is fully programmable means that it is absolutely possible to program it to speak in a way that your LCM4 can understand. The only question is how much work it will be.