About HMI Droid
NOTE: Read the description carefully before downloading! Operator panel for various industrial PLC's. Communication over Bluetooth, WiFi or mobile internet with the protocols COMLI, Modbus/TCP (Class 0 and 1), Modbus RTU...
NOTE: Read the description
carefully before downloading!
Operator panel for various industrial PLC's. Communication over Bluetooth, WiFi or mobile internet with the protocols COMLI, Modbus/TCP (Class 0 and 1), Modbus RTU class 1, SattBus COMLI, Siemens Fetch/Write or Siemens S7 Communication (ISO on TCP). Can also run on stationary devices such as media player or Raspberry Pi and with cabled Ethernet connection.
HMI Droid is an evolution of the HMI program LEDpanel for Windows and is a supplement or alternative to traditional SCADA systems and operator panels. It handles logical and numerical variables and has easy navigation between panels (pages) using swipe gesture or with buttons.
HMI Droid is also great to use for home automation with PLCs that have eg Modbus/TCP protocol is implemented to remotely control and monitor lighting, ventilation, heating etc in the residence or holiday home.
Advantages:
Excellent technical support.
Free updates.
Long expected life cycle.
Graphic HMIs with multi touch function can be created in minutes.
Free-of-charge development tool with test run feature.
Virtually unlimited number of panels (pages), objects and variables.
Does not require any third-party services.
Genuine native app.
Features:
Parameters for communication such as IP address, port number, protocol, etc. can be specified per panel (page).
Automatic polling of all variables displayed in the current panel (page), no need for separate tag list.
Many formats for numeric variables such as 16 and 32 bit integer, unsigned, hex, ASCII, float (IEEE 754), etc.
Prioritized event-driven transfer to the controller.
Panels (pages) are edited in the measurement unit dp (Density Independent Pixels).
Life bit for monitoring the operator panel in the controller. (Function similar to coordination area in Siemens S7.)
Auto-scaling allows for using the same panels (pages) on smartphones, tablets and other devices.
Numeric variables can be displayed as predefined text for example alarms, sequence steps etc.
Detailed diagnostics of connection and communication.
Variable areas for system and local variables.
Possibility of automatic return to the start panel (page) after some time of inactivity.
Selectable order for high and low words of 32-bit variables in the Modbus protocol.
Poll interval can be set do save data traffic or battery.
Support for Arabic, Baltic, Central European, Chinese (GB2312, BIG5), Cyrillic, Eastern European, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese (Shift JIS), Korean, Turkish and Western character sets.
Implemented protocols in the current version:
COMLI: Message 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Addresses register 0 - 3071 and flags 0 - 37777 (octal).
Modbus/TCP: Class 0, Function 3 and 16. Reads and writes 64,512 holding registers.
Modbus/TCP: Class 1, Function 1, 2, 4 and 5. Reads 65,535 discrete inputs, 65,535 input registers and reads and writes 65,535 outputs (coils).
Modbus RTU: Class 0 and 1.
SattBus COMLI i.e. COMLI SattBus over Ethernet.
Siemens Fetch/Write: Reads and writes variables in data block 1 to 255 between bytes 0 and 4095 and byte 0 to 127 in variable areas for inputs, outputs and memories.
Siemens S7 Communication (ISO on TCP).
System requirements:
Android 5.0 or later.
External storage must be available. (Not to be confused with SD Card.)
Windows PC for editing panels (pages).
Download the free-of-charge development tool for PC that is used to make the panels (pages) to be run by HMI Droid:
https://www.idea-teknik.com/hmi_droid_download.html
Manual:
https://www.idea-teknik.com/hmi_droid_manual.html
Version history:
https://www.idea-teknik.com/hmi_droid_version_history.html
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of HMI Droid since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-25 02:41:40.
The latest version is 1.7.8.129 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 13:50:12. See below the changes in each version.
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.129
Updated At: 2023-12-07
Changes: New item FAQ in the menu.
Color for welcome message changed from red to black.
Improved functionality in the system registers indicating Modbus RTU devices online.
Diagnostic dialog for image objects.
Updated icons.
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.128
Updated At: 2023-10-18
Changes: Bug fix for reading boolean variables mapped on bits in the Modbus Input Registers.
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.127
Updated At: 2023-08-27
Changes: Bug fix in the Modbus RTU protocol driver for malfunction if the poll interval is greater than or equal to the value for timeout.
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.126
Updated At: 2023-06-29
Changes: Bug fix for Slider when using unsigned format with the data type byte.
The communication diagnostics dialog displays the device name for Bluetooth SPP connections.
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.125
Updated At: 2023-03-31
Changes: Bug fix for misplaced background image under some circumstances after rotation of the device.
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.119
Updated At: 2022-04-02
Changes: Support for Hebrew character set in the Text objects and in the 'As text' format in the Numeric variable objects.
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.116
Updated At: 2022-03-11
Changes: New option 'Always read full bytes' in the settings for Modbus data type Coils and Discrete Inputs. Default value is true for backward compatibility.
New directive $changeSign="true"; for the Bar Indicator object when using the signed integer format.
Improved vertical centering of text in the Checkbox and Radio button objects.
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.102
Updated At: 2021-05-11
Changes: Bug fixes in the settings.
The term "Link" in the settings for connection and in the communication diagnostics dialog is changed to "Connection type".
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.101
Updated At: 2021-04-13
Changes: Support for using FC06 (Write single register) in the Modbus/TCP Class 1 protocol driver.
HMI Droid version 1.7.8.99
Updated At: 2021-01-19
Changes: The delete command can be disabled.
Dead zones around the Slider objects.
The Panel information dialog displays any runtime error codes.
Support for BYTE datatype in the Numeric variable, Slider Bar, Bar Indicator and Radio button objects by entering a special directive $typeOverride="byte"; in the comment area.
Bugfix for reading the integer part of the displayed value via the Objects area.
Bugfix for default text when using the As Text format.
