chimera_commander plugin

Emerson Control Techniques COMMANDER SK driver for the chimera observatory control system https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera.

Usage

This is a Modbus implementation for COMMANDER SK family of Programmable Logical Controllers (PLC) intended to be used for remote controlling these devices using TCP/IP.

Installation

To use chimera-commander, you need first install pymodbus, ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymodbus ), a fully featured modbus protocol stack in python. After that, you can do:

pip install -U chimera_commander

or

pip install -U git+https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera-commander.git

Configuration Example

Here goes an example of the configuration to be added on chimera.config file.

instrument:
    name: Myplc
    type: Commander
    clp_host: 127.0.0.1 # Host IP
    clp_port: 502 # Host port

Tested Hardware (for instruments)

This plugin has been tested on the following hardware

• Commander SK - SKBD200110 Version 01.09.00
• SM-Ethernet Version 02.00.02

Contact

For more information, contact us on chimera's discussion list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chimera-discuss

Bug reports and patches are welcome and can be sent over our GitHub page: https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera-template/