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

Installation

Release

The latest release is available in the public PyPi repo. Install via pip:

pip install festo-edcon

To install with GUI support:

pip install 'festo-edcon[gui]'

From git repo

You can also install directly from the git repo.

  1. Clone the repository

git clone <git-url> <destination>

  1. Change into the clone directory

cd <destination>

  1. Install via pip

pip install .

Usage

MotionHandler - edrive.motion.MotionHandler

The motion module which aims to replicate the function set of the Siemens SinaPos function block (both using telegram 111).

ComModbus - edrive.com_modbus.ComModbus

The Modbus/TCP communication driver used for transmitting modbus traffic between host and drive.

ComEthernetip - edrive.com_modbus.ComEthernetip

The EtherNet/IP communication driver used for transmitting EtherNet/IP traffic between host and drive.

Profidrive - profidrive

Contains telegram definitions that are currently supported by EDrives running PROFIDRIVE via Modbus/TCP and EtherNet/IP:

  1. Telegram 1

  2. Telegram 9

  3. Telegram 102

  4. Telegram 111

CLI - cli

festo-edcon

Main entry point to the CLI.

usage: festo-edcon [-h] [-i IP_ADDRESS] [-q] [--ethernetip] {position,pnu,parameter-set-load,tg1,tg9,tg102,tg111} ...

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i IP_ADDRESS, --ip-address IP_ADDRESS
                        IP address to connect to (default: 192.168.0.1).
  -q, --quiet           suppress output verbosity
  --ethernetip          use EtherNet/IP (instead of ModbusTCP) as underlying communication.

subcommands:
  {position,pnu,parameter-set-load,tg1,tg9,tg102,tg111}
                        Subcommand that should be called

Subcommand

Description

position

execute very basic positioning tasks.

pnu

read or write PNUs.

parameter-set-load

load a complete parameter set to a drive.

tg1

run a test sequence using telegram 1.

tg9

run a test sequence using telegram 9.

tg102

run a test sequence using telegram 102.

tg111

run a test sequence using telegram 111.

For more information use the help flag (festo-edcon [subcommand] -h).

festo-edcon-gui

Entry point to the GUI.

usage: festo-edcon-gui [-h] [-i IP_ADDRESS] [-q]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i IP_ADDRESS, --ip-address IP_ADDRESS
                        IP address to connect to (default: 192.168.0.1).
  -q, --quiet           suppress output verbosity

For more information use the help flag (festo-edcon-gui -h).

Features:

Examples:

Indices and tables:

Reference: