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Yes, the tooling & the IDE(s) are very questionable... Be it the Codesys IDE itself or descendants using the Codesys SDK such as TwinCat (Beckhoff), eCockpit (Wago), E°PlcDesigner (Eckelmann), etc... My great hope lies in the "Codesys GO!" IDE, which is in the making and will hopefully copy a lot from Visual Studio Code.

Great videos !!! I am a total beginner and trying to make some project involving two pumps, voltage steered, some magnetic valves, 4-20mA sensors , and one more device that I have to communicate with over PROFINET. Would you recommend SIEMENS or BECKHOFF ?

I purchased the Arduino PLC kit and am waiting on it, it literally only has 3 things it better be worth it for 400 USD

Memory ring looks very similar to queue in C

😮I was about to believe the video until I saw that you celebrate April Fool's Day in April. I am Mexican and we celebrate April Fool's Day in December 🤣🤣

Why do you use a virtual machine?

Thanks!

The sound of the buckling springs is music to my ears.

what was that little pop up window at 36:43?

Guys with the new Version of TwinCAT Package Manager (1.0.545.0), the migration tool is inbuilt and hassle free

Love the video but there is something I didn't quite understand. When you are doing the dependency injection what difference does it make when you put iPersistentEventStorage : I_PersistentEventStorage; in FB_Init other then using it in our FB_EventLogger directly?

Thanks for all tutorial its very helpful. We also want HMI in tutorial there is no good resource in web.(In TwinCat3 obviously:)

If you like the motion control stuff, check out Triamec (not to be mixed up with Trinamic) some of the most insane precision servo drives I've seen. You can run code in the 100kHz motor control loop. They're used for a lot of semiconductor tech & diamond turning equipment, where you're dealing with nanometers or picometers.

I discovered that this instruction is now implemented in the tc3 installation pdf. on chapter 2.5 download.beckhoff.com/download/document/automation/twincat3/TC3_Installation_EN.pdf

Thanks for doing this. Its difficult to find resources with opta plc or arduinon machine control plc. What would be the benifit of using this over arduino machine control (plc) over this combination with opta and opta extention? Thank you

Beckhoff is hot euro trash garbage. AB is far superior and reliable.

This is a great series, I am only on the 6-th part. Do you have a video series where you go through a problem-solution design, like create a PLC code for a small machine!?

This is potentially very powerful. You could write some very powerful middleware in sketch use that to drive the PLC. I write middleware and was a long time PLC programmer. I think I will buy this. Thanks.

Thanks for this, I wonder if this process would work on an ARM based CX-8190 for example?

Hi Jakob, many thanks for these well-structured training courses. I asked to connect with you on Linkedin in order to get in touch with you for professional questions. It would be a pleasure to talk to you. Gautier

Even if Beckhoff calls this thing a release version: Itis clearly not My estimate is that this is still at least 1 year away from being a release version and at least 2 years away to touch any customer hardware.

is there a link to the pdf page?

I want to say thank you for your PLC course, i am studying to become an automation engineer in sweden and before your videos i didnt know what i was doing. Now im building my first automated drilling machine. So thank you for what you are doing for the PLC community :)

that feeling when you switch on dark mode .... aaaahhhhhh

So it looks like the Boss is AWOL, the Win Interns have run AMOK. If you as their #1 acknowledged Fanboy struggle with this, what hope is there for us mere mortals. Just tried the NOCHECK and got the manager installed , but failed at the Shell install.

Hi Jakob, First of all thank you for all your great video's. On the Beckhoff Infosys this instruction is also available now. In the installation instructions for 4026 there is a Migration to Build 4026 page now.

35:06 a2dArray2 : ARRAY[1..2] OF ARRAY[1..3] OF REAL;

can I hug you?❤. Thanks mate, much appreciate all your effort

Codesys FTW!!!!

Hi Jakob, First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to do these videos, they are really good and super informative. This is probably a long shot but I do have a question about ADS. I use linux as my daily driver but I also program Beckhoff PLCs. Recently I started playing with C# and the .NET environment on Linux as I would love to use Linux and C# to create HMIs for the PLC's. I have been trying to get the C# library to connect to the PLC but Although I am using the client connect method like this: client.Connect(new AmsNetId("192.168.1.20.1.1"),851); and I created a route on the target PLC the same way you described it for the C++ library, I always get an error asking if the Twincat router is running: TwinCAT.Ads.Server.LoopbackNotRegisteredException: Cannot register loopback (Connection refused [::ffff:127.0.0.1]:48898). My 2 assumptions are that either I am not managing to indicate the proper address and the library defaults to local (127.0.0.1) or that the C# library doesn't really work on a Linux client. My Question is if it is only possible to run the C# client library from windows machines even though running .NET on Linux? and therefore ONLY the C++ library works on Linux? Cheers and again, thank you for your content!

hello what is that symbol you made at 29:25 you wrote ( and then what? if i try it with ^ nothing happenes like with your text .. if i write ' it changes into yellow color text

Please how do I interface the opta with an Hmi from a different brand using modbus Rs-485

thanks Jacob, still wondering about you rockwell/beckhof video, 😊

beckhoff slices are cheaper. Yes the "PLC" (actually an IPC) is expensive but you get an unlimited 7 day trial and you can probably bypass it with a little Automation Interface and OCR magic.

Do not buy an opta until they fix the plc ide. For the past year it has been impossible to get time over Ethernet. I have not yet tried 1.0.6 and have my fingers crossed.

Just get the real PLC with that price level. Don’t waste your time & money. Get NAIS FP1/2

Thanks a lot for your work here. I will follow your steps to try my opta plc. Would you please make a video on how to install and use two virtual boxes for using two versions of PLC software on one PC. How to make usb ports and ethernet ports working with the PLC hardware.

Looks good - personally I am mostly interested in the 4-20mA module, but sadly it isn't released yet. Something I am really struggling with: Why would I chose the OPTA solution over something like a CX7000? I really like the CX7000. The main two reasons I can come up with for using the OPTAs are 1. ModbusTCP (LOL Beckhoff) and 2. C++ code.

OMG OMG.. what a great video! Can I subscribe twice?

Thanks Jakob. I integrated BLE service from my central instead of MQTTprotocol to PLC opta to trigger an output. I am going to test and see if i can i have more than 8 inputs for this plc. I will also try MQTT next and see what is better.

I can said this: OPTA is the worst device if you turn on the ethernet network. After hours of working without problem the device will go in error mode stop ModBus communication and stop working completely without reason or way to debug. the device needs to power cycle to get out of this status.

I have a similar din rail like you have and wondered what you have used to make the stand its mounted to? Is it a piece of bent Perspex? Thanks

Thanks as always, is there a way too control a stepper/servo driver with some of the expansion?

I'd love to see how you'd do the automated testing, even in the TwinCAT environment as an example. Thanks for the effort that went into recording and uploading this. Cheers

Hi Jakob , i am Siemens specialist and I was trying to relearn some of the Beckhoff again, after all this while I lost it, I had seen some of your videos about Twincat even trying to install the software to practice, then today I found this new shocking video and I kind of agreed with you in all terms, I feel same way as you do so now I do not know what to do, I am used to to program AB long ago, I know its easier than Siemens for me , but need to buy the software, need to think about it...

AHA! I was right. I'm currently coding a trading algorithm and realized that I was having multiple issues with Global Variables. My project is currently over 14,000 lines of code wherein a large section of code was relying on an approximation of 20+ global variables. I was so stressed out to where I begin looking to see which GV's were causing the issues only arrive at the eureka moment that made me say to myself: "FUK GLOBAL VARIABLES" "THEY'RE BAD"! "I'M NEVER USING THEM AGAIN".

All of the functions here are obsolete and this instructional example is no longer useful. Edited: Turns out it IS working, but the IDE will give a lot of ??? in the function, however, the end result does still work and the D/T Stamp in structure instance does update as it should.

I know this video is pretty old so maybe some stuff doesn't work the same anymore, but ADSLOG_MSGTYPE_LOG doesn't do anything on my machine, however ADSLOG_MSGTYPE_MSGBOX produces a message box with the string text as expected. Did I miss something?

Many thanks to you. I especially appreciate that you have integrated the programmer's common practices into the videos, for instance, descriptive naming, oop, and tdd, to name a few. That helps me a lot, being a mechanical engineer.

Well done video as always......thank you