Is it possible to program GROOV with Node-red and at the same time with the CODESYS runtime (and other questions)?

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First I want to welcome you to Opto 22. I will provide information to each point that I have answer for.

  1. Yes, you can run both Node Red and the Codesys runtime Engine at the same time.

  2. Yes as well. They can communicate. Node Red has an OPC-UA Node, and Codesys has an OPC-UA Server on board. This would allow for any tags that are exposed via the OPC-UA server on Codesys to be accessible in Node Red.
    To your bullet point, this is exactly the use case we are seeing with Codesys and Node Red. Codesys for control, and Node Red to move data to cloud/web/database solutions.

  3. I will have to defer on this one.

  4. If you are using Codesys, you would have to use our GRV-CSERI-4 for any serial communications. If you wanted though, you could potentially use a USB to serial with Node Red and pass the data into Codesys per the above method

to your closing statement, the groov AR1 does not run Codesys, so if you need control, the EPIC will be your best option.

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