Yaskawa PLCi Driver

This driver uses the Yaskawa PLCi API to connect to a controller.

note

Note that the PLCi package must be installed in the PC that runs the Gateway. Can be downloaded from here.

Parameters

Aside from the common parameters described in the communication_driver docs, this driver includes:

Parameter	Default Value	Description
ip	192.168.0.1	IP address of the Yaskawa PLC.

Setup data

The setup data will give values to the parameters required and will specify the I/O variables info.

{
  "parameters": {
    "ip": "192.168.0.1"
  },
  "variables": {
    "input": {
      "datatype": "byte",
      "size": 1,
      "operation": "write"
    },
    "output": {
      "datatype": "byte",
      "size": 1,
      "operation": "read"
    }
  }
}

note

If the variable path is not specified with the @ character, the driver will assume is a global variable and will add the prefix "@GlobalVariables.".