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- Computer: Windows® - the oldest OS we support is XP® Circa 2002 with at least SP 2. Any later version is also fine, like Vista® or Windows® 7.
- Visual Studio® 2010 or later, Can be Express. We will only need C#, no other languages are required.
- .NET® 4.0 or later.
- Some programming experience is helpful. C# is best.
- Follow this link to download the materials: https://s3.amazonaws.com/mc2-material/AdapterLabMaterial.zip
- We have provided the complete project at each step, so if you get lost or stuck, you can always open up the next step and catch up.
- There's a preconfigured MTConnect agent to test the adapter you will be writing
- We also provided a small adapter client app (dump.exe) that simple writes the data out to stdout. The default telnet that comes with Windows (not 7) does not format as so the output looks ugly.
- Creating a simple adapter with a couple of events.
- Creating both a polling and event based samples (one that calls an API and one that receives change events).
- Conversion of data from some external representation to MTConnect.
- Adding conditions when they are in a fault or warning state.
- Activation of multiple conditions and demonstration of the two ways to handle conditions depending on the controller API.
- Creating an Asset (CuttingTool) and sending it to the agent. We can also update the cutting tool as well.
- Creating a real-time audio sensor (assuming you computer has a mic) and creating 1khz time series streaming data.
All source code is available on github (click code) and each step is on a separate branch. The dump utility is also available in the dump directory. If you would like to download the agent, goto https://github.com/mtconnect/cppagent. I have included 1.2.0.19 as part of the materials
All software is made available using the Apache 2.0 license. (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). You are free to use this in any project, for profit or otherwise. I only ask that if you find a problem, please send me the fix. If you like it, we can even turn it into a library and maintain it.
There are no external dependencies to use this code except for .NET (of course) and Windows. It is a port of the C++ adapters library with a lot of idiomatic changes for C#. There are many examples of existing C++ adapters in the https://github.com/mtconnect/adapter project. The FANUC adapter is one of the most complete and can be used to get an idea of how to create a dynamic adapter with FOCAS 2.