Android Question B4A Library for PLC Allen-Bradley

[VincenzoD]

Hello Everyone

I try to build Android App in B4A that permit to read and write PLC values from wireless comunication
Someone know, some library that permits to have comunication with Allen Bradley PLC,
or someone have sample of program that make simple comunication and sharing data with PLC?

Thanks a lot to anyone

 

[DonManfred]

comunication with Allen Bradley PLC

what is Allen Bradley PLC?

 

[VincenzoD]

DonManfred, is programmable logic controller maded by Allen-Bradley

Allen-Bradley - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Brian Dean]

Come on, @DonManfred; Google search is working, you know. Allen Bradley is a (well-known to many) American company making process control equipment and general factory automation gear.

Unfortunately I do not know anything about linking such equipment to Android devices.

 

[DonManfred]

Google search is working, you know

Yes. I know how Google works.
BUT i don´t see a reason for me to open google to get the Information the TO should have presented already.
It is not me asking for help; it´s the TO.

 

[Brian Dean]

BUT i don´t see a reason for me to open google to get the Information the TO should have presented already.

Okay - a fair point. I did not mean to cause offence, but I thought that the opportunity was too good to miss

 

[VincenzoD]

I saw some information from another forum, but there is with Siemens PLC, what do you think about it?

Wish , PLC Siemens<> Android

Hi I'would like to get a library to comunicate with plc siemens . On the net i found this sample working on android with source code: Android and Simatic S7 but it is an eclispe project and it need to somebody to translate it to b4a . That code is base on this java lib : JavaFX –...

www.b4x.com

 

[Brian Dean]

I have not been involved with process control since well back into the last century, but I don't like to see questions go unanswered.

I looked around the Net yesterday and it seemed that ethernet and proprietary interfaces are still common. Maybe safety concerns led to conservatism, notwithstanding self-driving cars. But then I came across this link :

How to Access Allen Bradley Data with a REST API

This would seem a good place to start.

 

[VincenzoD]

@Brian Dean thanks a lot for this
I have one way to start

 

[teddybear]

Hello Everyone

I try to build Android App in B4A that permit to read and write PLC values from wireless comunication
Someone know, some library that permits to have comunication with Allen Bradley PLC,
or someone have sample of program that make simple comunication and sharing data with PLC?

Thanks a lot to anyone

If your equipments support Modbus TCP, perhaps this can help you.