festo-edcon 0.14.0

Library to issue profidrive tasks for Festo specific electrical drives

festo-edcon

festo-edcon is a python package which bundles modules to facilitate operation of Festo electric drives (currently via EtherNet/IP and Modbus) using PROFIDRIVE. Documentation can be found here and in the examples directory

Installation

Release

The latest release is available in the public PyPi repo. Install via pip:

pip install festo-edcon

From git repo

You can also install directly from the git repo.

1. Clone the repository

git clone <git-url> <destination>

2. Change into the clone directory

cd <destination>

3. Install via pip

pip install .

Usage

MotionHandler - edrive.motion.MotionHandler

The motion module which aims to replicate the function set of the Siemens SinaPos function block (both using telegram 111).

ComModbus - edrive.com_modbus.ComModbus

The Modbus/TCP communication driver used for transmitting modbus traffic between host and drive.

ComEthernetip - edrive.com_modbus.ComEthernetip

The EtherNet/IP communication driver used for transmitting EtherNet/IP traffic between host and drive.

Profidrive - profidrive

Contains telegram definitions that are currently supported by EDrives running PROFIDRIVE via Modbus/TCP and EtherNet/IP:

1. Telegram 1
2. Telegram 9
3. Telegram 102
4. Telegram 111

CLI - cli

festo-edcon is the main entry point to the CLI. It supports various subcommands which execute some basic functions.

For more information use the help flag (festo-edcon -h).

Subcommands

• position is a subcommand to execute very basic positioning tasks.
• pnu is a subcommnad to read or write PNUs.
• parameter-set-load is a subcommand to load a complete parameter set to a drive.
• tg1 is a subcommnad to run a test sequence using telegram 1.
• tg9 is a subcommnad to run a test sequence using telegram 9.
• tg102 is a subcommnad to run a test sequence using telegram 102.
• tg111 is a subcommnad to run a test sequence using telegram 111.