Standard Plug-ins
MERLIC already provides the some standard Communicator plug-ins that can be used immediately after the installation. Most of them are implemented for the communication via specific types of protocols and clients to control and monitor the vision system whereas the "save-results" plug-in can be used to save data on disk.
The following topics provide more information on each of the provided plug-in including the available configuration options and their usage.
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This plug-in enables the communication with a Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC PLC via the MELSEC (MC) protocol.
This plug-in enables the communication with a Schneider Electric Modicon®* PLC via the Modbus protocol.
This plug-in uses MQTT to interact with external components. MQTT is an open OASIS and ISO standard for information exchange between (I)IoT devices.
This plug-in provides an OPC UA server that can be used to integrate MERLIC as a machine vision system into a manufacturing machine and set up the communication to an OPC UA client.
This plug-in exposes a subset of the Communicator's C API in the form of a RESTful API, including a built-in example web application.
This plug-in saves data contained in MVApp results to a configurable directory on disk.
* Modicon® is a registered trademark of Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
