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The ADS (automation device specification) describes a device-independent and fieldbus independent interface for communication between Beckhoff automation devices running TwinCAT and other devices implementing this interface.
{% linkable_title Configuration %}
To enable ADS, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
ads:
device: '127.0.0.1.1.1'
port: 48898
{% configuration %}
device:
description: The AMS NetId that identifies the device.
required: true
type: string
port:
description: The port that runs the AMS server on the device, typically this would be 801 or 851.
required: true
type: integer
ip_address:
description: The IP address of the ADS device, if not set the first 4 bytes of the device id will be used.
required: false
type: string
{% endconfiguration %}
{% linkable_title Service %}
The ADS component will register the service write_by_name allowing you to write a value to a variable on your ADS device.
{
"adsvar": ".myvariable",
"adstype": "int",
"value": 123
}
Service parameters:
- adsvar: Name of the variable on the ADS device. To access global variables on TwinCAT2 use a prepending dot
.myvariable, for TwinCAT3 useGBL.myvariable. - adstype: Specify the type of the variable. Use one of the following:
int,byte,uint,bool - value: The value that will be written in the variable.