Pro-tool Pro Serial Comm

[DesertDog 0]

I have a project using Pro-tool Pro on a Siemens Panel PC that talks to serial devices through the PLC. I find this very cumbersome requiring the screen to talk to the PLC then the PLC to the device and back. Not to mention how complex serial communications are through the PLC Comm Cards. In the past I have used WinWedge with InTouch to talk to several devices using USB to Serial converters. WinWedge does not work with Pro-Tool. Does anyone know of any easier method, perhaps some sort of VB - Active-X method? Edited 12 Aug 2003 by DesertDog

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You can use Protoolpro as an Opc client its also possible to store/read variables directly from protool into an sql database.