Communication to Mitsubishi PLC using MC Protocol/ SLMP

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Hi, does anyone have any experience or examples of reading and writing variables to a Mitsubishi PLC using SLMP protocol?

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Hi Ben,

I’m no familiarized with MC Protocol, but I don’t think B&R support it. At least, I didn’t find any documentation of it in Automation Studio Help.

Probably you would need to find another compatible protocol to make this communication. You can find an overview of B&R supported fieldbus protocols in this post: Communication Protocol Devices - Share Info & Ideas - B&R Community (br-automation.com)

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Hi Ben,

I’ve developed an MC protocol library, though it’s not actively supported at the moment. However, feel free to utilize it as a foundation should you require additional functionalities.

Attached, you’ll find a sample project featuring the library, which has been tested with Mitsubishi Q and R CPUs.

The library supports two communication types:

Batch Read/Write:

This mode allows for reading/writing a block of data, with a maximum size of 960 WORD.

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Random Read/Write:

This mode allows for reading/writing multiple variables from different memory areas, with a maximum of 192 WORD.

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By default, all communication is set to read-only. However, if you enable the option auto_write = 1, the mapping.Values will be monitored. Any changes initiated from the B&R side will automatically be written to the Mitsubishi PLC.

MC_Sample.zip (169.0 KB)

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Hi @lukas.emersberger, it would be cool to add this to our GITHub with a short documentation, what do you think about it?

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Hi @kovarj, that sound good! I also have an Omron FINS library that I’ve developed that could be shared.

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if you are open to share it with us your solution with source files, it would be really great, that is what is community about :slight_smile:

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Great thankyou, this is exactly what I am looking for!

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