Ethernet/IP power drives support

[nigeno]

First of all, many thanks to Kyle and other active supporters of this library!

I was wondering if the library explicitly or implicitly can support other devices than PLC's. In particular, power drives (like Powerflex and non AB drives) that support Ethernet/IP and CIP protocol. If not, what are the challenges we are facing to broaden this C library to support this type of devices?

In my current project, I need to read some information from the Ethernet/IP drive which doesn't have any PLC connected to. I understand that it's possible to add any cheap PLC to it, but would be nice to avoid it.

I saw a python library ( pycomm3 ) to support that but didn't do a broader research.

Thanks

Yevgen

[Kyle]

Hi Yevgen,

I think those mostly have very low level CIP commands like GetSingleAttribute.  Right now, you might be able to use the raw tags in libplctag to talk to drives, but I do not have any to test against.

Best,

Kyle