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[INFO] Support for MTConnect standard confirmed - Armin@netPI - October-18th-2018 Edit August 2020: ******************************************************************************* The https://github.com/mtconnect/mtconnect-agent MT Connect agent referenced below has been deprecated ******************************************************************************* MTConnect is a standard for exchanging information and data of factory automation equipment like machines, sensors, actuators across Ethernet using a standardizes device data format which is XML. Today I wanted to proof if MTConnect can be supported by netPI too. MTConnect web site provides a source code containing an agent (master) to scan for adapters (slaves) and if found any to provide their informations on a simple HTML page. Here is what I did.
Of couse my examination proves just MTConnect connectivity on the lowest communication level only and for sure there is much more work to spent on realizing a user application on top of the agent or adapter, but it shows to me that MTConnect is indeed as open and interoperable as they proclaim on their web site. Good luck for any MTConnect project you want to realize with netPI Thx Armin RE: [INFO] Support for MTConnect standard confirmed - MGharat - June-7th-2019 Hello Armin, I was trying to run MTconnect container , but get error on npm install command as attached , Is something wrong I am doing? Thanks Madhumati RE: [INFO] Support for MTConnect standard confirmed - Armin@netPI - June-7th-2019 Updated the steps to get npm command installed in the Raspbian container cause it comes not preinstalled. So repeat at step 3 RE: [INFO] Support for MTConnect standard confirmed - MGharat - September-19th-2019 Hello Armin, I have reexecuted the commnands today for mtconnect , not I am getting below error as attached. git :command not found BR Madhumati RE: [INFO] Support for MTConnect standard confirmed - Armin@netPI - September-19th-2019 The latest version of Raspbian does not include the command git. I corrected the description above. In topic no .4 I am explaining now how to install git. Regards RE: [INFO] Support for MTConnect standard confirmed - MGharat - September-20th-2019 Hello Armin, thanks. I again got stuck at npm install command . As you suggested I executed step 3 again , Is something missed by me? BR Madhumati I tried further & now I get as below attached: Is mtconnect agent running? BR Madhumati RE: [INFO] Support for MTConnect standard confirmed - Armin@netPI - September-20th-2019 The latest Raspbian container uses Debian 10 or named as "Buster". Many things have been changed between the old version "stretch". Here is a short test I made: Code: sudo apt-get update But when you visit the repositor web site under https://github.com/mtconnect/mtconnect-agent it says it is deprecated and no longer maintained. It also says that the new version is located at https://github.com/mtconnect/cppagent. The readme tells a programmer how to get it compiled. You need indeep knowledge to get it up and running. It is not as easy as the "old" mtconnect-agent. Regards RE: [INFO] Support for MTConnect standard confirmed - MGharat - October-1st-2019 Dear Armin, I have executed few steps from below link https://machiningcode.com/install-the-mtconnect-agent-in-two-easy-ish-steps & now below is the output as attached. How we can test further? any guidance? Thanks BR Madhumati RE: [INFO] Support for MTConnect standard confirmed - Armin@netPI - October-1st-2019 Hello Madhumati, I am sorry to say that I have never investigated the MT Connect stuff deeply. Your link sent seems to me a proper information how to get the cppagent installed. But what this agent is capable of and what it does I really don't know. All I know is that MTConnect is a system to transport data between devices and you need an agent. This is what the landing page of MT connect says: https://www.mtconnect.org/ What I also see is that the source code of cppagent and its README tells more about the agent in general: https://github.com/mtconnect/cppagent Maybe here you find how to use it and how to write a program that deals with the agent ... and then with other MT connect capable devices. Sorry for having no better information for you. Thx Armin |