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Introduction

PLCsim Advanced Manager is a project that aims to modernise the way of working with simulated PLC's. It is build around the Siemens PLCsim Advanced software and provides a web-based user interface to manage your PLCsim Advanced instances. In the backend, it uses the API of PLCsim Advanced to communicate with the instances.

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project status

The project is mostly trying to show functionalities. Code optimization and UI improvments are definitely a thing!

If you have an issue or a feature request, don't hesitate to create an issue

Goals​

The goals of the project are:

  • Manage your PLCSIM Advanced instances remote in a webserver. This way you don't have to log in to the target PC, but can start instances over the network
  • Exploit the functionalities of the PLCSIM Advanced API to create a more advanced UI
  • Read and write variables from the PLC (DB/Inputs/Outputs)
  • Advanced network setting. Being able to set every interface of the instance to an interface of the host machine
  • Create snapshots and restore them
  • Easy virtual commissioning by e.g. setting buttons and lights in the UI to the PLC variables
  • Traces on the variables for analysis
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The main focus is on Siemens PLCsim Advanced, but generally speaking, this could be extended to other PLC simulators as well. (if they provide an API)