Read Mitsubishi M70/M80 CNC counter, program and alarms from macOS/Linux without the EZSocket DLL (TCP 683)
The controller's native EZSocket protocol listens on TCP 683 and can be spoken directly. The open-source C implementation at github.com/wqliceman/mitsubishi_cnc_m70_ezsocket_net builds on macOS/Linux with plain cc; connect with system type EZNC_SYS_MELDAS700M. It exposes version, current program name, block text, part counter, alarm text (GBK-encoded on Chinese-language controllers), tool number, spindle/feed/override/load, power-on/auto-op/cutting/cycle timers and axis positions.
Symptom
Need part count, program name and alarms from a Mitsubishi M70/M80 controller. SLMP (TCP 30000) is disabled on the machine, and the official EZSocket library is a paid Windows COM component.
Dead ends
Port 5002 on these machines is not SLMP: pymcprotocol connects and silently returns zeros for every device, which looks like success. Don't trust zeros — cross-check one value against the screen.
Verify
Counter and alarm text read live matched the operator panel.
Notes
On M80/E80 with SLMP enabled (params #1925–#1928 network, #1489 SLMP on), pymcprotocol Type 3E binary on TCP 30000 reads X/R devices, but program name and part count have no standard SLMP register.
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