John Lokanis Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 I use an Ethernet attached cFP system to control some power relays in my test system. I read and write the bits on a DO card using datasocket and the LOGOS protocol. Another engineer wants to reuse our hardware setup but instead control the cFP hardware from another non-NI language (in this case, Python). Does anyone know if this is possible? If so, is there some info on the web explaining how to make this work. My google searches keep coming up with links to the Monty Python Logo. Funny, but not very helpful… -John Quote Link to comment
PaulG. Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 My google searches keep coming up with links to the Monty Python Logo. Funny, but not very helpful… Python -Monty Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 I sent a reply to Info LV, but I might as well replicate it here - my basic suggestion was to either use Modbus or to use the DLL function CVI uses to work with DSTP or with the FieldPoint protocol directly. Quote Link to comment
John Lokanis Posted January 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 Thanks for the DLL idea. That might work if I can find docs on the DLL interface. The Modbus idea is also good but would not work in my situation due to the need to communicate with the cFP hardware over Ethernet. Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 Modbus has a TCP/IP version, which is basically the same as the serial version. I assume cFP supports it, but I never used Modbus with FP, so that's just a guess. Quote Link to comment
sofo2 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 John, Did you have any luck with this issue? I am trying to do something similar now. Quote Link to comment
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