Program your groov product for industrial control and monitoring using any familiar IEC 61131-3 compliant language and the CODESYS Development System.
The IEC 61131-3 standard includes several languages, some of which you may already know.
groov EPIC and
groov RIO (with firmware 3.5.0 and higher) support all IEC 61131-3 compliant languages, including:
- Function Block Diagram (FBD)
- Structured Text (ST)
- Sequential Function Charts (SFC)
- Ladder Diagram (LD)
Choose the language or languages that work best for your application.
Best of all, you can combine any of these languages for control with many of the other software tools available in your
groov EPIC or
groov RIO—like Node-RED and Ignition or Ignition Edge—in order to do everything you need to on a single edge device.
On groov RIO, control programming is for small applications with limited control. It is best for 10 devices or fewer, counting both local I/O and devices you're controlling through protocols. If you have more than 10, opt for a powerful groov EPIC system instead.
You’ll use the PC-based CODESYS Development System V3 to create and compile IEC 61131-3 programs for download to a CODESYS Runtime running on your groov product.
The CODESYS Development System is available at no charge from the CODESYS Store. To enable the CODESYS Runtime for your groov product, order a CODESYS license:
Then follow licensing steps in the
groov EPIC User's Guide, the
groov RIO Universal I/O User's Guide, or the
groov RIO EMU User's Guide.