Hello Shawn. Thank you for reply. I called Beckhoff and spoke to sales manager after 5min. After 2h I have got a conference call with Beckhoff area sales manager and application engineer. 4 days after I left a message (because Codesys has no one to talk), I still don't see Codesys interest to sell product in volume. If Codesys truly believe that the best way to get new customers is to show them how to use the Ticket system, then I can only wish a good luck with your business model. Shawn, your response...
Hello. Our company is doing building automation and looking for a new PLC platform. One of the candidates was Codesys. Monday morning I tried to contact Codesys USA sales/support to discuss a deal to buy 100 licenses. No operator to answer, only the option to leave a voice message. Hm... It was the first bell. Two days!!!! Two days after they called me back in reply to my message. I started to explain that the purpose of my message is to discuss a deal on the license and at the same time to test...
An update. Popup window to enter user name and password for OrangePi were somewhere on the background, this is why system was waiting for my input and I was waiting for system response. Anyways, gateway was successfully initiated and I was able to go online with OrangePi. Downloaded a simple project with no program code but with 3 devices: EtherCAT master om the interface lan0 and BACnet_IP and Ethernet_IP_Scanner on the interface eth0. XML configuration files for the Beckhoff EK1100 coupler with...
Hello. Today is May 2023. Codesys has available Linux ARM64 SL package. OrangePi R1 Plus LTS is based on the Rockchip RK3328 (supports ARMv8-A 64-bit instruction set). According to Linux ARM64 SL description, package supports: OS: Debian-based Linux (32/64-bit) CPU: ARMv7, ARMv8 RK3328 and Armbian 23.02 Bullseye should be supported by Codesys Linux ARM64 SL package. The goal is to play with OrangePi R1 Plus LTS to get PLC running first. Next step is to buy OrangePi 5 Plus to work on the real project...