1.4 Installation of the driver on the target device

1.4.1 Windows machines

The target part of the driver, which is used for communication with Siemens devices on Windows Vista/7/8/10 is included in the Development tools of the REX Control System as mentioned above.

1.4.2 Windows CE machines

The target part of the driver, which is used for communication with Siemens devices on Windows CE based machines is part of the installation package (.cab file) of the REX Control System runtime module.

1.4.3 Linux machines

If there is no RexCore runtime module installed on your target device, install it first using the Getting started guide of the REX Control System for the given platform, e.g. [2].

In order to enable communication with Siemens devices in the REX Control System the driver must be installed. This is done from command line using the command
Debian:
sudo apt-get install rex-s7drvt
OpenWrt:
opkg install rex-s7drvt