Friends of Toddy
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The friends of toddy, back the Apache PLC4X project. The project aims to provide open-source drivers for communicating with industrial equipment.
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Implementation of a first S7Comm Plus driver
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Rewrite the existing PLC4J SPI, to work without Netty and other third party dependencies.
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Produce a new release-candidate for the Apache PLC4X 0.13.0 (Includes the release of Apache PLC4X...
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The release of version 0.13.0 is still waiting for financial backing ...
This version is packed with loads of improvements and bugfixes. The probably most noteworthy additions are optimizers for both the modbus and s7 modules, which allow much faster reading of much data. Also will this be the first release that...
Published on May 15, 2025 by Christofer Dutz
First contribution
we wanted to use the opportunity to thank our first sponsor for sponsoring part of the S7CommPlus driver project. I am really happy that I no longer have to sit on the bill for the device that needed to be purchased in order to get started...
Published on April 15, 2025 by Christofer Dutz
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The "Friends of Toddy" collective is created and contains only members of the Apache PLC4X PMC.
In general using and creating open-source is free of charge. However, PLC4X is slightly different here. In order to build drivers for industrial equipment, we usually need investments to purchase the equipment that we want to build drivers for. Mostly also expensive software is required.
Also, even if the users of PLC4X consist to almost 100% of users from the industrial and commercial space, development is currently completely done by volunteers in their free time and using their mostly private money.
With this collective, we hope to be able to provide the means for our users to support our work, and to incentivise our work and help finance some of the expenses we have in order to continue to provide you a one in a kind project for free.
In general using and creating open-source is free of charge. However, PLC4X is slightly different here. In order to build drivers for industrial equipment, we usually need investments to purchase the equipment that we want to build drivers for. Mostly also expensive software is required.
Also, even if the users of PLC4X consist to almost 100% of users from the industrial and commercial space, development is currently completely done by volunteers in their free time and using their mostly private money.
With this collective, we hope to be able to provide the means for our users to support our work, and to incentivise our work and help finance some of the expenses we have in order to continue to provide you a one in a kind project for free.
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