Dear Julian,

thanks for your kind reply, I will study the video you post me and I
will try to understand with the PLC expert if using "plain" block will
be an issue or not.

Thanks,
Stefano Bossi


On 04/07/2020 23:13, Julian Feinauer wrote:
> Dear Stefano,
>
> first, welcome to this list and thank you for your kind words!
>
> I, and many others here on the list would love to be able to read "optimized 
> Data Blocks" from Siemens.
> There are technical as well as legal reasons why we do not provide such a 
> driver as of now.
> I (and others as well) hope that we will be able to do it one day but so far 
> we cant.
>
> In our industrial applications we usually copy the block over to another 
> unoptimized Block which we use as "exchange block".
> Tim talks a little bit about that in the video we did together on PLC4X: 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIp_0OcDTr4
> [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MIp_0OcDTr4/maxresdefault.jpg]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIp_0OcDTr4>
> "Hands On": Reading Siemens S7 with 
> PLC4X<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIp_0OcDTr4>
> In our first (technical) webinar Julian Feinauer and Tim Mitsch as members of 
> the Project Management Committee (PMC) of PLC4X will introduce the Apache 
> PLC4X...
> www.youtube.com
>
>
> If you have more questions we will try to help you with that or give you 
> enough advice what to tell the PLC programmer guy : )
>
> Best!
> Julian
>
>
> ________________________________
> Von: Stefano Bossi
> Gesendet: Samstag, 04. Juli 2020 15:31
> Bis: dev@plc4x.apache.org
> Betreff: Reading compress Data Block
>
> Dear plc4x developer,
>
> my name is Stefano and I am dealing with a project which is briefly reading 
> data from a Siemens 1200 or 1500 and use these data to make some statistics.
> I am writing a software in Java with your wonderful library but I didn't 
> written the PLC software (some automation expert guy wrote that)
> The PLC software has some DB I need to read but the PLC use "optimized Data 
> Block".
> Is there a way to read with PLC4X library an optimized Data Block ?
>
> Many thanks for your work!
>
> Regards,
> Stefano Bossi
>
>

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