Licensing
A licence is verified entirely offline. The editor never calls anywhere — an industrial PC usually has no internet, and licensing that needs a network would stop working on the machine exactly when you need it.
Levels
| Level | What it includes |
|---|---|
| DEMO (no licence, or after expiry) | the full editing scope of FULL, but nothing reaches the hardware (download to panel and runtime flash are locked) |
| SMALL | WEBview, tags, logic, simulation; no HMIview (the display shows a status screen), no CAN/Modbus |
| MEDIUM | as SMALL + HMIview screens; no CAN/Modbus |
| FULL | everything: CAN, Modbus, the board generator, custom component libraries |
WEBview is in all levels.
A lower level never discards your data
Content beyond the level is displayed, it just cannot be compiled or downloaded — and the editor lists exactly what exceeds the level. Your project is not trimmed because a licence expired.
Activation
- In the editor, Buy licence opens the checkout in a browser. Sales and taxes are handled by a merchant of record, so you get a proper invoice outside Slovakia as well.
- Back in the editor, paste the order number → Activate. The editor fetches the licence, verifies its signature and loads it immediately. No files, no waiting for a human.
- For a PC without internet the same step is available from a browser on another computer — you generate a request, carry the licence file over and import it.
The licence is tied to a machine fingerprint. Replacing the PC means a new request and a new issue — within the validity period at no extra charge. Validity is one year; the editor warns 30 days ahead.
Deployed panels run forever
This matters and it is deliberate: the licence is on the editor, not on the machine.
- A panel you have downloaded a program into keeps running after the licence expires.
- There are no monthly fees for a deployed device.
- After expiry exactly one thing stops working: downloading new projects.
So a machine at a customer's site never stops because you forgot to renew.
The runtime licence in the device
Besides the editor licence there is a runtime licence bound to the board's serial number. The editor writes it during commissioning — it is not something you have to handle when ordering hardware.
The record reserves room for feature packages (positioning, extra axes, more WEBview clients). The practical consequence: a unit bought today can be extended without reflashing and without shipping it back — the editor writes a new signed record to it.
A licensing fault never stops the machine
When a record fails to verify, the unit is marked unlicensed in the diagnostics and refuses extensions — but base control keeps running. The same rule applies here as everywhere else: logic comes before everything else.