Previously on this forum (and from the German forum) there was an Excel spreadsheet that could access a Logo to read and set values. However this communicated over a serial port, which is of course not present on a Logo! 8 and most modern PC's.

Has any one rewritten/modified/updated this Excel spreadsheet to communicate over Ethernet  for a Logo! 8 ?

That's a shame as the Excel method was wonderfully usefully in setting systems up.

Enter values in spreadsheet, load to Logo, job done.

ian_m42

That's a shame as the Excel method was wonderfully usefully in setting systems up.

Enter values in spreadsheet, load to Logo, job done.

Ian,

For my case I had all the adjustable parameters available on the built in screen. What I then did was to run a simulation and make all the adjustments on the PC. Thereafter I loaded the program with changed parameters to the LOGO.

Now with the OBA8 we have a web server that emulates the screens on a web page. This gives the chance to make screen pages that is private.. only shown on the web page. Again the adjustments can be made there. The advantage is also that anyone with web capable device and login password can now make adjustments to private parameters without special software.

There is also an App available for your hand phone that you can try. Search Google Play for more details.

Helpful?
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Its just that using Excel you could do a bit of sanity checking on the values before configuring the Logo.

The user/operator setting up the system would fill in the Excel cells with the required values for the particular machine/process run. You could do simple sanity checking in Excel and check that the user/operator did not enter -300'C for process temperature etc