AdvancedHMI and Arduino Via Mudbus.

AdvancedHMI
A different approach to HMI development

Quick Start Guide

AdvancedHMI
Quick Start
1) Visual Studio 2008 (or higher) or Visual Basic Express will need to be
installed on the
development PC. If you do not already have one installed, you can get Visual
Basic Express from Microsoft at the following link:
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visualbasic-express
2) You will now need the AdvancedHMI project, this can be downloaded from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/advancedhmi/
3) After downloading AdvancedHMI, extract the files from the zip file

4) Open the solution file (AdvancedHMI.sln) by either double-clicking or

starting Visual Basic and going to File->Open Project and browsing to the
AdvancedHMI.sln file
Note : If you are using Visual Basic 2010 or higher, you will see an upgrade
wizard. Just click the Finish button to proceed
5) Open the MainForm by double-clicking the name in the Solution Explorer

6) The project will now need to be compiled in order to add the components
to the Toolbox
Note : If you do not see the Build menu option, Enable the Expert settings:

7) From the ToolBox, add a Comm driver by dragging and dropping to the
form.

8) Set the appropriate properties for the comm driver you selected, e.g.
IPAddress.

9) Add a visual control to the form by dragging and dropping from the
Toolbox.

10) Set the PLC address that you want displayed on the selected control. Here

I used 40001 to reference Mb.R[0] in the Arduino Sketch witch is Analog pin 1.
(more on that later)

11) Now open the Put the Mudbus library in Arduino IDE.

12. Open the Mb example sketch

13. Edit the Ethernet information - mac, ip, gateway, subnet to suit your
needs.

14. We already set the Panel meter to display the value in A0 so as a test just
plug in a value.

As you can se here i Just plugged in a value of 7 to be stored in Mb.R[0] for

testing.
Now Upload to the arduino.
And then press the start button in visual studio. Your panel meter should read
7.

If that all works then you can hook up an analog device and put the
analogRead statement back in and upload one again. Make sure to stop the
HMI before you upload. It may cause the program to crash otherwise.

Hope this helps!