OT: DeviceNet via Python (was Re: It's in Python. It just _works_!)
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Fri Sep 3 09:29:48 EDT 2004
Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2004-09-03, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>Grant, could you say anything about what gadgets were involved
>>that let you talk to DeviceNet with Python? Did it have a
>>serial port, or talk TCP directly, or something else?
>
> I use a USB/CAN interface from PEAK-System Technik GmbH.
[snip]
Thanks so much for that detailed description! I've
filed it for reference the next time we have to talk
CAN to something, and passed it on to a number of
people.
Our own approach used a CAN4USB device from Zanthic
Technologies, and talked to a Windows DLL using calldll.
We had also experimented with a plug-in card from a
German company (different one, I think), but that
didn't work out as well.
I'm curious if anyone has yet contrived a working
solution for both Linux and Windows... Zanthic
didn't have a Linux driver for theirs, and I don't
know what the API would have been to talk to it
from Linux.
-Peter
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