Available Packages
Overview
This list showcases some of the core packages that are available, but it is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all packages in the registry. For such a list, you can call lpm viewall, and all available packages will be printed to the console.
Package Types
There are many different types of packages available. Each has a different format and functionality:
- Library packages: these are binary libraries that are intended to be installed into an Automation Studio project. They don’t run any code in and of themselves, but must be called from a task.
- Folder packages (i.e. ‘pkg’): these are source packages that represent an entire folder in the Logical View of Automation Studio. They can include resourcew such as tasks, .typ and .var files, and subfolders.
- Project packages: these are source packages that contain an entire Automation Studio project.
- HMI packages: these are source packages that contain frontend frameworks and templates.
Library Packages
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| a3br | Library | AR Library for communicating with ABB targets via RWS. ABB + BR = A3BR! |
| atn | Library | AR Library for broadcasting commands from an execution context agnostic master. All Together Now! |
| chopper | Library | AR Library for building strings with embedded variable values |
| csvfilelib | Library | AR Library for reading and writing variable values to and from CSV files |
| errorlib | Library | AR Library to handle error collection, acknowledgement, and display |
| fiowrap | Library | AR Library for basic File IO operations |
| hammers | Library | AR Library with general tools - Every problem’s a nail when you have the right hammer |
| iotmqtt | Library | AR Library for MQTT client handling |
| jsmn_parse | Library | AR Library for parsing JSON packets |
| llhttp | Library | AR Library for handling HTTP(S) clients & servers |
| logthat | Library | AR Library for adding diagnostic information into the CPU’s logger |
| matrix | Library | AR Library for manipulating points, vectors, and 4X4 transformation matrices in 3D space |
| omjson | Library | AR Library for websocket-based JSON comms. OMG! It’s JSON! |
| persist | Library | AR Library for storing variables to permanent memory |
| piper | Library | Piper is a distributed machine sequencing library developed by Loupe for B&R controllers |
| ringbuflib | Library | AR Library for implementing a ring buffer |
| stringext | Library | AR Library for extending string parsing functionality |
| tcpcomm | Library | AR Library to handle TCP communication |
| udpcomm | Library | AR Library to handle UDP communication |
| vartools | Library | AR Library for getting and setting variable values |
| websocket | Library | AR library for WebSocket communications |
Folder Packages
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| firstinitprog | Folder | First program run upon machine boot. Initializes file devices, machine configuration, persistent data, loggers, etc. |
| piperprog | Folder | Full executable Piper implementation |
| revinfoprog | Folder | RevInfo automatically creates Git commit data and Automation Studio build information for use in an AS project. |
| luxprog | Folder | Server-side task for Loupe UX implementations, running on the PLC |
Project Packages
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| starterasproject | Project | Minimalist Starter AS Project |
| librarybuilderproject | Project | AS Project for building libraries into binaries |
HMI Packages
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| starterhmiproject | HMI | Starter HMI Project with basic template content |
| loupe-ux | HMI | Client side implementation of the UI ↔ PLC comms |
| tmplits | HMI | Template components for HMIs |