Lib Ads is alive !

[Luis Matos]

Hello!

I regain interest in developping libads, to use the ADS protocol in linux.

In http://github.com/gass/libads I've been making the library simplier and all the examples working.

In the future all this work will migrate to sourceforge, so we rest it into a definitive home.
For now, we need to test the library and to update it.
A lot of cleaning is needed and bugs or patches are welcome. In github it is easy to fork the project.
A debian package is in route also, so it can be easier to test.
If anyone would like to provide an rpm configuration file, please do so.

Best regards,
Luis Matos

[Roba Lee]

So glad that I found this group.
I'm just a Linux user and my job forces me to work with Beckhoff on Windows.
LibADS makes me feel my life is meaningful again XD. I'll give it a try later.
Btw, is there an IDE or a vim plug-in that could open and edit TwinCAT project file?

Thanks,
Roba Lee

[David Rutberg]

Hi!

That's great. We are in need of this lib to just read and write symbols. Nothing fancy but needs to work on a Linux box.

The lib compiles fine but when trying to run the AdsClientApi bash script I receive an "buffer overflow detected". Any ideas?

Do you know any Beckhoff docs on how the AMS Router works and how one can implement it on Linux.

Keep up the good work! :)

[Luis Matos]

The purpose of this library is that one. Provide a simple way of just getting data from beckhoff hardware.

can you post a simple example on how it crashes?

Thanks

Luis Matos

[Håkon Nessjøen]

Hi,

I might be interessted in contributing code to this project.

But I can't seem to find the protocol documentation. Do you have a local copy you could send me?

Regards,

Håkon

[B B]

Hi,

you can find the specs here:
http://infosys.beckhoff.com/content/1033/tcconnectivity/html/tcconnectivity_intro.htm?id=10937

Cheers,
CaptainOfCrunch

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[Håkon Nessjøen]

What about the router, is there any documentation of that?

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[Luis Matos]

The router has no documentation associated.

The router stores the netid and handles the communication with the devices.

My plan was to provide first a library simulate a router and then an optional ads-router daemon.

Thanks for your interest.

Cheers,

Luis Matos

[Håkon Nessjøen]

Is it just a simple netid to ip/host/(nmbhost) translator? A lookup table to connect to the right host for netid?

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[B B]

No, not exactly. It also offers a possibility to open up to 4 different conncetions to the same host on the same port at the same time. I'd understand it as a type of proxy.

BTW, whats the exact status of this lib?? is it working? Is somewhere code to download? Please help me out.. :)

A nice project to check out: http://tomcx.github.com/tame2/

[B B]

ok, it's me again. I found the sources, compiles just fine, except AdsClient.

According to the README

The client is AdsClient: ./AdsClient

AdsClient should be the client, but it does not build. I have ADSclient.c, ADSclient2.c and ADSclient3.c (note the capitals!) but none of them builds.
I took a quick look ADSclient.c - are the ADSNetIDs fixed in code or can be change dynamically (although it shoudn't be dealbreaker without an ADS-router)?

Thanks in advance!

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[Luis Matos]

Basically something like that.

Probaby a config file, located in /etc.

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[Yves Acremann]

Dear Authors

Thanks a lot for writing and publishing this library! We are using it and it works very well! Our application is to connect a Beckhoff PLC to the Tango control system

running under Linux.

Best regards,

Yves Acremann