io-adapter

Generic hardware and protocol MTConnect adapter with extensive transform rule support. The following protocols are supported:

• MTConnect Adapter (SHDR)
• MTConnect Agent (XML)
• Modbus-TCP
• OPC-UA

The following IO devices have first-class support, beyond the above listed protocols:

• LabJack U3
• LabJack T4
• LabJack T7
• ADAM 6052

Pre-Setup

Non-WSL Windows users can skip this step. However, non-WSL Windows users should NOT commit changes to the package.lock file; the node-labjack-u3 package and dependencies will get stripped out.

Ensure the necessary native build tools are installed and that liblabjackusb has been built and installed from the included /linux.

sudo apt-get install make g++ libusb-1.0-0-dev`

cd ./linux/liblabjackusb
sudo chmod 755 add_ldconfig_path.sh
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo rm *.o

Note: Although WSL Windows users can cleanly install the labjack optional dependency, they cannot test a real LabJack U3 (USB-based) device. Only true Linux or Darwin users can do so.

Setup

npm install

Running

To run the adapter normally, which will load all YAML files in the /config directory, run:

node app.js

It's also possible to invoke one of the files in /config/example and ignore the rest of /config by using:

node app.js example examplefile.yml

Documentation

Complete documentation for the adapter's configuration lanuage is available in the MachineMetrics Quip:

• /MachineMetrics/Integration/IO