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S7 Joystick v2.0  - Ethernet/Profinet connection only

Send joystick position and buttons to your S7 PLC!

This tool reads position and buttons state from a common PC joystick connected to your PC and send the relevant data to a datablock in your S7 PLC (S7-300/-400 and TIA 1200/1500).


With S7joystick you can use an inexpensive PC joystick to control a device, to ease your commissioning, to test machinery.


Basic joysticks have two X-Y axis and four buttons, advanced joysticks may provide hat (or point-of-view) button, additional axis and more buttons.


Current version of S7joystick manages up to 6 analog axis, two hat buttons sets and up to 32 joystick buttons.


A sign-of-life variable is also provided in order to implement a safe communication check on PLC side.


NOTE: this utility works with Ethernet connection only,
Profibus MPI/DP connections are not supported.

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Sample interface data block

Joystick interface area is mapped to a data block, button state and axis value can be easily accessed.


DATA_BLOCK "Joystick"

TITLE =

VERSION : 0.1

  STRUCT  

   StatusFlags : STRUCT  

    JoystickActive : BOOL ; //TRUE=joystick is detected by Windows

    JoystickDataValid : BOOL ; //TRUE=incoming joystick data are valid

   END_STRUCT ;

   SignOflife : INT ; //watchdog counter

   Buttons : STRUCT  

    Button1 : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    Button2 : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    Button3 : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    Button4 : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    …

    Button31 : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    Button32 : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

   END_STRUCT ;

   Hat1_POV : STRUCT  

    North    : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    NorthEast: BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    East     : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    SouthEast: BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    South    : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    SouthWest: BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    West     : BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

    NorthWest: BOOL ; //TRUE=button pressed

   END_STRUCT ;

   AxisX : WORD ; //0..65535, 32767=center position

   AxisY : WORD ; //0..65535, 32767=center position

   AxisZ : WORD ; //0..65535, 32767=center position

   AxisRX : WORD ; //0..65535, 32767=center position

   AxisRY : WORD ; //0..65535, 32767=center position

   AxisRZ : WORD ; //0..65535, 32767=center position

   AxisSLIDER1 : WORD ; //0..65535

   AxisSLIDER2 : WORD ; //0..65535

  END_STRUCT ;


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