DMD Simulator

[LWgreys]

Question! Why does the DMD Simulator go in to STOP mode every time windows screen saver activates?

[BobO]

It shouldn't. It does go to program mode after running for an hour though.

[LWgreys]

My screen saver was set for a hour. So it's not the screen saver.
But after an hour, the simulator goes into STOP mode, not terminal programming mode.
Still can write updates to the simulator just have to put the switch back in TERMINAL or RUN mode before running the program.
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[BobO]

Program mode and stop mode are two names for the same thing. It kicks out of run mode by design, because it fully supports Modbus and Ethernet I/O comms and could otherwise be used to actually control a machine.

[LWgreys]

Been on vacation and away from computers.
I see your point! I think I would put it as short as half an hour.

Just a thought!
Have you considered creating a PC base Do-more PLC software that controls actual PC base I/O and use a USB Code Key encrypted to the installing disk to prevent duplication?

[BobO]

Just a thought!
Have you considered creating a PC base Do-more PLC software that controls actual PC base I/O and use a USB Code Key encrypted to the installing disk to prevent duplication?

Yeah, we've talked about it. Biggest consideration against was just that to do it right, it should be deterministic, and we don't yet have a strong enough sense of market demand to feel good about doing the work required to make it so.

We also thought it would be cool to bundle the engine into a library with a programmatic interface, so that users could build it directly into a UI. At that level, it would be possible to integrate virtually any custom I/O that might be tethered to the PC.

Are we still open to it? Sure, with enough apparent demand.

[LWgreys]

We also thought it would be cool to bundle the engine into a library with a programmatic interface, so that users could build it directly into a UI. At that level, it would be possible to integrate virtually any custom I/O that might be tethered to the PC.

This I would Like!. Current Do-more does not have enough built-in memory to handle the type of application I am thinking of building. This app is a memory hog as it will have to hold and process large amount of data in a buffer, then send the data to the appropriate machine with the parts for that machine. That's why I asked about a PC base version.

Have you consider a larger memory version of the Do-more or a version of the Do-more that will let you use a flash drive or card for added memory storage?