crash (Customer) asked a question.
Help using P1AM with Secomea SiteManager
We use Secomea SiteManagers for remote support. We have had a customer that has started using P1AM PLCs in their systems. The Secomea SiteManager is supports remote USB programmers, but I have run into the issue of it not working at all with the P1AM PLC. I dug out an Arduino Leonardo and attempted to push a program to that and failed as well.
I am testing with the SiteManager 1129 as this is what's in our portable troubleshooting kit.
Secomea has not been able to resolve this issue yet, and I was wondering if anyone here uses Secomea's hardware, or could potentially help us troubleshoot it.
https://kb.secomea.com/helpdesk/KB/View/24998531-special-case-sitemanager-serial-to-sitemanager-serial-communication
I have not worked with Secomea directly but the above may help you out.
Regards,
Garry
https://accautomation.ca/series/productivity-open-arduino-compatible-industrial-controller/
This is interesting, I did not know this was a capability. I can connect to remote com ports, their software just creates a virtual com port on the computer.
They have something similar for USB. I think the issue is that right as programming starts it disconnects and reconnects. When the P1AM does this the SiteManager drops the connection.
Is there a way to program the P1AM from an RS232 serial port?
I think the disconnect is because of the process the SAMD based arduino boards use when programming. Here is the process:
I'm not familiar with SiteManager, does it have an OS that you can run shell commands from?
This thread's best answer is the process I did on a Pi where I manually connected at 1200 to force the bootloader and then upload using the normal bossac tool.