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Many of you know I use the BCS-462 from Embedded Control Concepts. I have had it for 6+ years and it works great, but with some I/O limitations such as no RTD input, and no analog output.
Recently, they upgraded the forward to a whole new paradigm and we lost the HMI (human machine interface) GUI... I was a bit disappointed.. Fortunately, really smart member has written a very snappy JSON GUI and shared it.
Details - optimized for 1080P but will work with 4K also, The base code is at a 3rd site, but once that is loaded, all the communications seem to be direct between browser and the controller. Here is the discussion on the forum.
I plan on figuring out how to have this on a 4k TV for distillery tours..
I shot a YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYKVaN5xn1g
If anyone out there uses a BCS, maybe we can team up on the component drawings for the still items... All I have drawn is a condenser
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and if that gets you excited, guys have working amazon developer AWS projects that allow you to run this with your amazon echo... "alexa, what is the product condenser temperature"...
Amazing @CothermanDistilling , where do you find the time for this? I'm getting home at 4am and still not finding time to do the essentials around the plant. I'm hoping to get a better work/life balance very shortly.
heck, I am thinking the same thing about the guy who wrote the code for this! I just spent an hour or two on it..
That's pretty neat. Surprised they ditched the UI vs just keeping what existed and allowing others to extend.
The 4k would be nice, I would put up a big screen with tons of graphs.
the 3.7 code had a built in HMI, when they went to 4.0, it was a low priority, and for a $2-300 retail price device, hard to ask for more... and it took resources, the new one pretty much 'lives' in the browser itself
Still waiting to hear about the "pro" version with support for RTD's & 4-20mA devices
If they come out with a new and improved I'm first one in line