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General => Technical support => Topic started by: colin.williams on December 18, 2017, 06:24:21 AM

Title: SD card on a SmartTILE-Fx
Post by: colin.williams on December 18, 2017, 06:24:21 AM

I noticed there seems to be a place for an SD card connector on the SmartTILE-Fx and I was wondering if there are any plans to add support for SD cards on the SmartTILE-Fx and if so when would it likely happen.

Title: Re:SD card on a SmartTILE-Fx
Post by: support on December 19, 2017, 07:55:49 PM

Thank you for your interest in the SmartTILE-Fx. At this point there isn't any on-going development to add the SD card support as there are a few other options for data storage and transfer.

SmartTILE-Fx based PLCs are often connected to the Ethernet network and data can be written directly to a network server as they become available, so that these data can be accessed by other applications without having to physically remove the SD card to access the data.

SmartTILE-Fx also has data file space that allows you to store quite a lot of data locally on flash memory. The data file created by the CPU can be downloaded from the SmartTILE using a web browser.  Alternatively, you can also program the PLC to upload the data via FTP to a FTP server and that can automate the data collection without human intervention.