Posted 25 Oct 2005 I've been thinking of PC software HMIs and how to make one using Openoffice.org. Why openoffice? Because it runs on linux (and windows). Well anyway. I haven't figured out a way to acquire/send the data from/to the PLCs (in my case omron) in a way that openoffice calc could be used. I was searching the net and found a project called Lintouch. It's an open source software HMI and it runs on linux and windows(only 2000/XP sadly). Anyway, it seems they don't have that many plugins for communicating with PLCs and other HW, so i was wondering, if there are people capable of PC programming and willing to make such plugins? I don't know, maybe someone else is interested too. I'm not a PC programmer, so i'm not much of a help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 19 Mar 2006 Check out factorySQL and factoryPMI. They're commercial products, but reasonably priced. You can use any OPC server to communicate with the PLC. ---- Nathan Boeger Integrator, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Inductive Automation Share this post Link to post Share on other sites