This protocol is called SRTP and is indeed proprietary. However it is based on the older serial port protocol which is documented in the programming manuals and also through some unsupported Visual Basic examples from Fanuc itself.
I have recently written a VI library to control Fanuc Controllers over the LabVIEW build in TCP/IP functions. It works well for what we had to do but is far from throughly tested.
I really couldn't recommend anyone to use it who isn't well into low level programming including TCP/IP protocols and since there is no real documentation about it I will refrain from posting it here.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Hi Rolf,
It's been a long time since your post, but I was wondering if you could share some of your knowledge on how to communicate over TCP/IP directly to the Fanuc controller without using the PCDK API.
We have used PCDK for many years, but we are now facing the need to update the robot's numeric registers from a non-Windows platform - and therefore we can't use PCDK and the Robot Server.
I really appreciate anything (dirty code is okay) you can give me or point me to that will help me do a simple update of a numeric robot register. Thanks in advance!
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Hi Rolf,
It's been a long time since your post, but I was wondering if you could share some of your knowledge on how to communicate over TCP/IP directly to the Fanuc controller without using the PCDK API.
We have used PCDK for many years, but we are now facing the need to update the robot's numeric registers from a non-Windows platform - and therefore we can't use PCDK and the Robot Server.
I really appreciate anything (dirty code is okay) you can give me or point me to that will help me do a simple update of a numeric robot register. Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
- Philip