EasyPLC External Drivers

 

 

EXTERNAL DRIVER CONCEPT

 

The external drivers is one of the EasyPLC extensibility tools.
Through this system, any user with programming skills can develop their own communication libraries between any hardware device, any software or utility and EasyPLC.

To develop your own external driver you can access the various tutorials that are available in the forum or help documents that come with the registered version of EasyPLC.

To create an external driver you must create a library compatible with COM / ActiveX Microsoft technology, you can choose the programming language that is compatible with this technology that you like.

Some Examples: 

 

How to create an EasyPLC External Driver with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0

 

How to create an EasyPLC External Driver with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

 

 

 

 

AVAILABLE EXTERNAL DRIVERS:

 

 

With the EasyPLC registered version some Drivers are provided free. There are others that must be acquired separately, also if you need any external driver, it can be performed under special request, ask for prices and delivery.

 

Driver	Description	Prize
PhidgetsInterfaceKit	Driver to communicate with Phidgtes PhidgetsInterfaceKit I/O cards via USB port	Free with EasyPLC registered version
PhidgetsWebService	Driver to communicate with Phidgtes PhidgetsInterfaceKit I/O cards via WebService.	Free with EasyPLC registered version
SharedMemory	Driver to communicate with user programs using the Windows shared memory via Windows's API: CreateFileMapping, MapViewOfFile and OpenFileMapping.	Free with EasyPLC registered version
Siemens Simatic Step 7 - PLCSIM	Driver to directly communicate with Siemens Simatic Step 7 software. More info	25 Euros
TCP/IP	Driver to communicate two PCs with EasyPLC via TCP/IP protocol, it can also be used like a HTML server, then with PC or movil device EasyPLC can be accessed remotely. Using a Phone to manage remote I/O	Free with EasyPLC registered version
Test Device 1	Example Driver.	Free with EasyPLC registered version
Test Device 2	Example Driver.	Free with EasyPLC registered version
Rockwell Automation RSLogix	Driver to communicate with Rockwell Automation RSLogix software.	25 Euros
Nirtec_USB_1516 Card	Driver to communicate with Nirtec_USB_1516 card	Free with EasyPLC registered version