Available out-of-the-box. With CODESYS you avoid a complex fieldbus implementation and can instead focus on the value adding application only, saving engineering time and resource. For application programming you can use the PLC language of your choice. CODESYS is a widely adopted software system in the industrial automation and control space. XSOFT-CODESYS is the ideal programming environment for all machine and process-relevant applications for mechanical and plant engineering. The software is the optimal programming environment for applications requiring a powerful PLC or HMI PLC with different field bus connections.
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Related subreddits. I am obviously very bias as my development environment is based on Codesys. That being said here are the pros and cons Pros. Free, I mean you can't beat free.
Free soft PLC simulator that runs on windows. It's awesome. You don't need hardware to test all your code.
Powerful, things like unions, OOP, generating your own function blocks, etc. Open - It's non-propriatary, which means there are tons of free code samples and libraries available. OSCAT is developed in Codesys for instance. 61131-3 compliant, for real, it has all the languages and they all work well together. Built in visualizations, built in recipe manager, built in alarm manager, built in OPC UA server, built in oscilloscope trace, etc.
Plug ins - Raspberry Pi is my personal favorite. I can turn my Pi into a PLC for testing and whatnot. I also like the simulink plug in to turn my simulink programs into PLC programs. Lots of protocols - EIP, Modbus, Profinet, Ethercat, etc. Cons. The Ladder editor is not as fluid as Logix/Studio5000, although this got better with SP12 and SP13.
Powerful - Yes this is a pro and a con, there is enough rope to hang yourself with here. Learning curve - the first time you use it, it takes a while to get used to. small bugs.
What IDE doesn't have bugs, but some of these are funky. I find closing and reopening is somewhat common. Constantly evolving. I feel like once I get used to a version and it's bugs, a new version comes out.
Codesys 3 is a decent IDE, but I would like more ways to organize the project. I really don't like how hard it is to tell programs from subroutines from function and how the variable declaration files are organized separately. I'd also like to be able to include documentation (like PDFs) in the project. They really need to store the project source code as text and to not packed into a single binary (the.pro or.project file) so 3rd party version control software will work with it. If you want to email projects back and forth, you can zip them up, there is no benefit from using the.pro file format. I won't talk much about Codesys 2, its obsolete and they already replaced it.
It wasn't very good and 3 could have come a few years earlier. Most of my experience with Codesys comes in the form of EPas 4 (ELAU, codesys 2) and SoMachineMotion (Schneider/Elau, codesys 3). So maybe my complaints are addressed in some other IDEs. Still nothing else close to B&R's Automation Studio, but they are on the Codesys board, so hopefully more of their stuff makes it into Codesys 4. I do like how monitor mode of ST code in Codesys 3 shows the variable values in-line.
B&R relies on a watch window, which is fine and works better than most watch window implementations, but I would still like those values to be inline as an option. We just moved from Schneider to B&R 2 years ago. I love automation studio, however miss a few codesys features. The in-line monitoring mode is awsome in codesys. The other part that takes some getting use to is the inability to declare VARINPUT and VARINPUT in PRGs. It not too big of a deal, I was just use to keeping my global variable list size down and liked the variable organization. As for automation studio, I like the overall look and feel of the IDE, the ability to setup multiple configurations, and the new reference files for repeated code.
In the future I hope automation studio bring in more codesys features. Would love to see true pointers along with the already existing references.
I'd also like to be able to include documentation (like PDFs) in the project. You can do this with Codesys 3. They really need to store the project source code as text and to not packed into a single binary (the.pro or.project file) so 3rd party version control software will work with it. Have you seen the SVN plugin for version control? It makes it super easy if you use SVN.
I'd love to see a git plugin. For code you can also export to PLC Open, send that, and then import. This isn't the cleanest option but it would work with 3rd party version control.
Programming System CODESYS Development System V3.5.8.0 or higher Runtime System - Supported Platforms/ Devices. Pi Model B / B+, Pi2 Model B from CODESYS V3.5.8.0 or later.
Pi3 Model B from CODESYS V3.5.9.10 or later. All models from CODESYS V3.5.11.0 or later Note: Use the project “Device Reader” to find out the supported features of your device. “Device Reader” is available for free in the CODESYS Store. Additional Requirements. The CODESYS Control requires a network interface (LAN, WLAN), especially with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module and the Raspberry Pi ZERO.
If the product is used for industrial purposes, it is the responsibility of the system manufacturer to ensure compliance with the necessary specifications. The operating system “Raspbian”. Restrictions. The combination of Raspberry Pi and a CODESYS Runtime is primarily intended for test and teaching purposes. The runtime system does not have real-time behavior. Its Jitter depends on many factors, especially on parallel executed Linux applications, and is ideally approximately 50 µs with maximum values of approximately 400 µs. Licensing License activation optional on CODESYS Runtime Key or CODESYS Soft Key (free of charge component of CODESYS Controls).
Licensing via CODESYS Soft Key is strictly linked to hardware. Note: Without a license the software runs in demo mode. Runtime: Two hours (manual restart is possible). Fieldbuses: 30 minutes Required Accessories. SD-card (minimum 4GB).
Optional: CODESYS Runtime Key.