pascal Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 This morning, while taking a coffee, I was considering next idea : shouldn't it be great to have the "remote access" or the "remote operator" software running on a smartphone or tablet PC ? Then we are done with all the problems of the enhanced webserver, where from time to time it stops running (only a cold reset -power OFF/ON can help). Then we are using the screens of the OPLC to control our project, instead of making some html pages. To access my OPLC without any problems, I now use "teamviewer" to access a PC who can execute the remote operator software ! and this works nice ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emil Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Thank you for the interesting idea. What do you expect from such application - surfing in your application while flying from Tampa to Sofia or having access to the system within the factory? How many persons you think need to serf at the same time in the same system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cara Bereck Levy Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Hi :-) Someone has, independently, developed an app for Android. Please be aware that this is third-party; Unitronics has not tested and therefore cannot endorse it, but here is the link: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jweav2223 Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 I've used ScadaMobile by SweetWilliams for Apple products (Iphone and Ipad). I use Modbus Gem 2.2 which is unlimited use for Modbus and is in the $30 range I believe. I used the Android App previously mentioned for use with Android products. Still waiting on a product for Windows 8 products. I think there is only one app currently to check basic connection and a few values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascal Posted January 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 now we need an win based PC to run remote operator of remote access. When You make this work on a android based of apple based (ipad?) system, then we have a very powerfull system, because we only need to program the PLC and not some difficult HTML pages ! An yes, I want to control the PLC from Tampa to Sofia. The amount of users ? I think 1 at a time is enough, because you are using the screens of the PLC (like you are in front of the PLC) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emil Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Hi Pascal, Fully agree with your suggestions. We are discussing this idea very seriously. I'm pretty sure we will do it, but don't know how much time ti will take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linxchas Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 "... We are discussing this idea very seriously. I'm pretty sure we will do it, but don't know how much time ti will take." Just a point to consider: May be the way is to embed in the PLC a messaging client of Message-oriented middleware as FB, for example HornetQ? "HornetQ is an open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system" This will give an easy way to connect controllers and PC applications anywhere in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVP 2014 Simon Posted January 22, 2013 MVP 2014 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 I think the protocol is already there (PCOM) and supports the information transfer. Remote Access and Remote Operator both work fine on a PC. The sticking point is the app development, to give something like Remote Access on mobile platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascal Posted February 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2013 I'm very pleased that the idea of creating an "app" - (for Ios and Android) of "remote access" will be considered. I can not wait until they appear in the app store ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gsxr1000au Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Still no app for remote access yet?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascal Posted January 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2014 started this topic one year ago, but still no app to download ? I found something in the app store for Ipad customers : the software HMI draw from sweetwilliamsl.com -> price 0.99 $ of 0.89 € I bougth this, tested it and approved 100 % good. But you have still a lot af programming to do ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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