← PLC Sidecar
0.5

What's new

Every version of PLC Sidecar — what you can do now that you could not before.

0.5
  • Versions: every change gets a version before and after, with a short AI description in six languages.
  • Review before pushing: what is in TIA Portal now next to what will be sent, block by block and line by line.
  • Roll back to an older version — the whole version, or only the changes you pick from the list.
  • After every push the app compiles the whole PLC and saves the project by itself.
  • If somebody changed a block directly in TIA Portal in the meantime, the push stops and offers to take it over.
  • The app now speaks Czech, German, English, French, Chinese and Hindi.
0.4
  • Watch tables: edit them row by row in the app and send them to TIA Portal in one step.
  • HMI tag generator: tags for a panel prepared from the PLC data in one go.
  • Every push ends with saving the project and a check that TIA Portal is still running.
  • Before a push the app warns about names TIA Portal would refuse, so you do not lose a round.
  • After an interface change of an FB you see which blocks call it.
0.3
  • Several TIA Portal projects open at once — pick the one you want in Target.
  • HMI: browse screens, see the tag and event of every object, bring a prepared screen into the project.
  • LAD and FBD blocks drawn network by network.
0.2
  • One desktop app for Mac with Apple silicon and Windows.
  • Before any change the app checks that the project is offline, instead of failing halfway.
  • First edits on a real machine project, checked on a test copy first.
0.1
  • First connection to a running TIA Portal and its project tree.
  • Load SCL, STL and data blocks as readable text.
  • Send an edited block back, compile it and see the result.