About Providers

What are Providers?

With the COBOTTA, ORiN2-compliant add-ins are used, enabling external devices to be used with a common interface specification. These add-ins are known as Providers. To control the generation and/or delete of a provider, use Cao object or gCao object, which are embedded object.

What is ORiN2?

ORiN stands for "Open Resource interface for the Network" or "Open Robot interface for the Network", and is standardized technology used to access equipment from application software. This technology is promoted by Japan's ORiN Forum for the popularization of ORiN2 and promotion of functional improvement activities. Refer to the ORiN Forum website for details.

Provider Types

The following providers can be used with the COBOTTA.

Refer to the respective instruction manual of each provider for details of specifications and commands.

Refer to "Standard Use" for details on the description method for PacScript.

Note 1) Click the name of a user's manual to open the user's manual for each provider in PDF format.

Note 2) Manuals which with "(Sample)" are available to download samples from the Sample page.

Note 3) Providers that have a License lock require to enter a license key. For details, refer to [License] section in this page.

Communication Specifications

With regard to the communication specification, refer to following documents.

License

In some products, a license has been locked. For such products, enter a license key to activate the function before use.

For information of how to enter a license key, refer to "Display, Add and Delete a Function Extension Window" of TP App Operation Guide.

The way of how to obtain a license key is different from a paid license and a free license. See the table below.

Part Number of Paid License

The following table shows part numbers of paid licenses.