Robot Raconteur was specially designed as an unique and Open Source tool that is supposed to provide a solution for distributed controls and component interfaces.
Robot Raconteur acts as a language and client-service framework for automation systems.
Requirements:
· .NET Framework 4
· Visual Studio C++ 2010
· Python 2.7 (optional)
· MATLAB (optional)
· LabVIEW (optional)
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Automatic Node Detection (Plug and Play)
· Fully compatible with IPv4 and IPv6
· Nodes on same subnet can detect available services and connection URL
· Service definitions -> auto-protocol negotiation
· Client-service security
· Username – credential logon security
· Exclusive object use locks
· Pipe object member type
· Object interface "implements" statement
· Automatic backwards compatibility for enhanced interfaces
· Wildcard value and object types in service definition
· Indexed-set data types
· Node pass-through message routing