pyads - Python package
This is a python wrapper for TwinCATs ADS library. It provides python functions for communicating with TwinCAT devices. pyads uses the C API provided by TcAdsDll.dll on Windows AdsLib.so on Linux. The documentation for the ADS API is available on infosys.beckhoff.com.
Documentation: http://pyads.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
Issues: In order to assist with issue management, please keep the issue tracker reserved for bugs. For any questions or feature requests, please use the discussions area. Alternatively, questions can be posted to Stack Overflow tagged with twincat-ads and state you are using the pyads library. Please search around before posting questions, particulary around route creation and ads error messages when reading or writing variables as these are common issues.
Installation
From PyPi:
pip install pyads
From conda-forge:
conda install pyads
From source:
git clone https://github.com/stlehmann/pyads.git --recursive
cd pyads
pip install .
Features
- connect to a remote TwinCAT device like a plc or a PC with TwinCAT
- create routes on Linux devices and on remote plcs
- supports TwinCAT 2 and TwinCAT 3
- read and write values by name or address
- read and write DUTs (structures) from the plc
- notification callbacks
Basic usage
import pyads
# connect to plc and open connection
plc = pyads.Connection('127.0.0.1.1.1', pyads.PORT_TC3PLC1)
plc.open()
# read int value by name
i = plc.read_by_name("GVL.int_val")
# write int value by name
plc.write_by_name("GVL.int_val", i)
# close connection
plc.close()
Contributing guidelines
Contributions are very much welcome. pyads is under development. However it is a side-project so please have some patience when creating issues or PRs. Please also follow the Contributing Guidelines.
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