Technical Spotlight - Q3 2024 summary

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Hi B&R community

Here is an overview of recent technical guides, improvements and ideas shared within our B&R Community. Make a :coffee: and I wish you happy reading :student:

1. MpDatabase

Configuration of mpDatabase using python script can be quite tricky. Do you know that stephan has developed sample, link to get repository is here and Kyle has developed MySQL Connector For B&R PLC Without MappDB

2. OpcUA

For OPC UA communication you can use either OPCUA_any or library AsOPCUaC/S. If you would like to use something between, interesting would be to use EasyUaClnt a simplicity wrapper library based on AsOpcUac shared by Javier . We are still waiting for update to AS6 version, any volunteer here at B&R community?

Update: EasyUaClnt was updated to AS6. Cool.

3. Automation studio

It may be worth to automate certain modifications in the Automation Studio project using pre- or post-build mechanisms. Very popular is used Python for that. Running a PreBuild python script.
If you are not sure how to compare two projects, check guide from Michael Guide: Project Compare .
Cool is also Dark Theme for Automation Studio shared by Oliver

4. Mapp motion

Are you curious about possibility to change settings related to mappMotion configuration then check Use MC_BR_ProcessConfig for configurations using unbounded arrays provided by Philipp.
New filter for noisy signals can improve
motion performance, try it out and share with us your experiences.

5. Mapp View

Do you know who was one of the star of ECAMP 10-2023? Let me highlight Andrea and Im very happy that he shared with us modified version mappView landing page revision.
Very interesting is also New mappView widget PoC developed by Florent for week planning in mappView visualization.

6. Technology guarding

Are you not sure how to install license using B&R technology guard. This guide is intended to walk you through pulling a Technology Guard license from the B&R licensing server
(Using Technology Guarding to Install Licenses). Thanks Austin for this cool overview.

And there is much more, are you curious? check out Share Info & Ideas - B&R Community, there is search and filter functionality included.

Do you have your own guide, example, or anything else interesting? Share it with our B&R community, there are more then 2000 users waiting for it :slight_smile:

Jaroslav

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Happy to annouance that EasyUaClnt (mentioned in chapter 2. OpcUA of technical spotlight) was updated to AS6.

For more info go to original topic.

Thanks Javier.

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Already used it. A great idea.

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was there any challenges with this solution? if so, you can create topic about that and share it with us :slight_smile:

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I like the idea of a regular summary of topics over a certain period of time. It gives me a good overview of where the focus is in the community at the moment and which topics I can learn more about. A great thing. Keep up the good work!

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