festo-edcon 0.7.6

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

Modules

There are two main modules which contribute to the package:

1. Generic PROFIDRIVE telegrams (profidrive):

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

2. Driver modules (edrive):

   1. EDrive: EtherNet/IP and Modbus
   2. Motion Module based on Siemens SinaPos functionality (using Telegram 111)

Tools

• festo-edcon-position is a CLI tool to execute very basic positioning tasks.
• festo-edcon-pnu is a CLI tool to read or write PNUs.
• festo-edcon-test-tg1 is a CLI tool to run a test sequence using telegram 1.
• festo-edcon-test-tg9 is a CLI tool to run a test sequence using telegram 9.
• festo-edcon-test-tg102 is a CLI tool to run a test sequence using telegram 102.
• festo-edcon-test-tg111 is a CLI tool to run a test sequence using telegram 111.

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 .