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[PatrickRitchie]

MTConnect.NET - News

Coming 2.0 Update

I'm planning to release a v2.0 update of the Agents around the beginning of the year that will include the changes listed below:

• InnoSetup installer included in the repo so that you can build your own installer for distribution
• Change license from Apache 2.0 to MIT. The MIT license should be more open and should be more compatible with other licenses. Everything will still be free to use and distribute for both personal and commercial purposes
• Updates to AspNetCore Agents. These agents support use with IIS and allow easy setup of SSL
• Updates to a few namespaces and class names such as MTConnectClient will change to MTConnectHttpClient in order to fit with the new MTConnectMqttClient. These will be under the namespaces MTConnect.Clients.Http and MTConnect.Clients.Mqtt respectively
• Updated / Additional documentation. Specifically for Adapter development.

MTConnect SHDR Tool

I published a new repo MTConnect SHDR Tool which is a client tool used for testing Agents and Applications using the SHDR protocol. It uses the MTConnect.NET libraries and is simple to use.

Support

I want to thank everyone for the support for this project and I hope it has been helpful to others looking to implement MTConnect. In just under a year since our first release this project has:

• 70,000+ Total Nuget downloads
• 1,600+ Total Github Release downloads

To further support this project, make sure to "Star" this repository on GitHub as this helps it show up in search results.

Thanks again for all of the support and please let me know if there are any issues or feature requests.
-Patrick

[PatrickRitchie]

Upcoming v6.0 Release

Http Server

The Http Server is being switched to use the Ceen Httpd library as opposed to the standard HttpListener. The Ceen Httpd library has more straight forward TLS configuration and should provide better streaming functionality.

New ability to configure multiple Http Servers with different configurations. This allows a localhost server for HTTP Put/Post and a separate Http/Https server that doesn't allow Put/Post for remote connections. Overall it should allow for more flexibility.

MQTT

Better MQTT functionality and more streamlined TLS configuration (should be identical to HTTP TLS configuration)

Single Agent Application

A single Agent application that supports HTTP, MQTT, and Gateway/Broker configuration. This should help with confusion of which Agent to use. I can still publish the individual Agent applications if requested.

Admin API

I'm looking at implementing an Admin API for updating the configuration. This would be accessible from an external configuration GUI.

EntityClient classes

New "EntityClient" classes for accessing just the MTConnect entities (Device, Observation, Asset) that can use the same Interface across HTTP or MQTT.

[PatrickRitchie]

Video Tutorial Series

@versex799 is doing a tutorial series on how to implement MTConnect for use with Fanuc FOCAS and is using MTConnect.NET as the library. Be sure to check out the first video on how to setup a TrakHound MTConnect Agent https://youtu.be/sT8-DMDwy_8

Upcoming Releases

New updates are coming soon and I'm planning on a new v6.0 release at the end of the May.

Thank you to everyone who has used and supported this project.

-Patrick