MII PCO COM1 Communication

[adnanmaqbool]

Hi All

Is there any possibility to read data from COM1 Port of any system/PC using Plant Connectivity.

I am able to read it using Hyper Terminal but how can same be achieved using MII PCo

[Kevin_Hunter]

Hi Adnan,

Could you please provide more details ? Is this RS232 or RS422 ? Is the protocol standard serial data or Modbus RTU ?

If its Modbus then yes you can connect directly with PCo. If its standard serial then you have some options:

• Use a serial to ethernet adapter (something like Serial to ethernet) which converts the serial data into a tcp socket then use the PCo socket source
• Write a custom source system (see the developers documentation in the help page)
• Use 3rd party middleware to convert the data into OPC such as KepServer EX
• Write your own serial to ethernet / OPC middleware

Hopefully this helps but with more details I can be more specific

Thanks

Kevin