Your customers' panels will keep dying. Be the one who fixes it from your desk.

For system integrators

LineKeeper is a free bridge you put in a customer's hands: their phone becomes the temporary operator screen, and you stay the engineer who makes it right — on a call, without the windshield time. No licensed software on their side, no site visit on yours.

Their side
The free app
iPhone and iPad · Android in closed beta · no licensed software
Your side
A phone call
A list of tag names is enough · no site visit
Writes
Per-tag unlock
Confirmed and audit-logged on every value
Safety
Not a safety device
Safety tags are blocked in code on the device
The callA channel, not a competitor

A channel, not a competitor

Auto-discovery hands anyone hundreds of tags — and tag names mean nothing without the person who knows the scaling, the interlocks, and which of three Start bits is the real one. That person is you. LineKeeper removes the licensed-software and travel friction from a support call; the engineering stays yours to bill.

How the call usually goes:

  1. The customer installs the free app; a scan finds the PLC, and on Allen-Bradley Logix the tag list loads by itself.
  2. You tell them which tags matter — a list of names over the phone is enough.
  3. They drag-and-drop the screen; you watch the values and sanity-check it live.
  4. Writes stay locked until their administrator unlocks the specific tags you named — confirmed and audit-logged on every value.
On the recordAudit log and remote access

Your work, on the record

LineKeeper On keeps an audit log of every sign-in, every tag unlock and every value written to the machine — role, time, tag, value, result. Built-in remote access (Tailscale) lets you open a customer's device from your desk to look and support — values, alarms, history, settings. Writes to the machine and alarm acknowledgment are refused over a remote connection and are done at the device or on the plant network. Access is per person, revocable in your own admin console, and the plant switches it off with one tap. The plant gets a maintenance-log record; you get a documented role in the loop.

In the free app today, writes are a per-tag unlock with confirmation and limit checks, and every write is journaled. Safety tags are blocked in code on the device and can never be unlocked — LineKeeper is not a safety device.

The migrationQuoted, not rushed

The panic weekend becomes a planned migration

With a bridge screen running, the dead panel stops being a Sunday-night favor. The replacement becomes a job you quote properly: firmware and application conversion planned, hardware ordered without overnight freight, commissioning scheduled. And nothing is wasted afterwards — the bridge stays as the machine's logging and dashboards layer, which the old panel never did anyway.

Is / isn'tHonest limits

What LineKeeper is — and isn't

The app Free app for iPhone and iPad (Android in closed beta): EtherNet/IP, Siemens S7 (S7-1200/1500 need PUT/GET; optimized DBs need absolute addresses) and Modbus TCP.
The device Backup-HMI touchscreen device on preorder (7″ $800, 10″ $900, one-time; ships within 8 weeks of order, full refund before shipping, 30-day money-back after delivery) — EtherNet/IP (ControlLogix/CompactLogix), AB legacy PCCC (SLC-500/MicroLogix, PLC-5 experimental), PowerFlex drives (read-only), Modbus TCP/RTU, S7 and OPC UA.
The converter The free converter rebuilds buttons, indicators and values from a project export — graphics and alarm logic aren't carried over, and a bare .mer runtime can't be converted.
What it isn't Not a safety device, never for safety functions; not a certified replacement for an OEM machine interface.
RequestsBuilt with integrators

Missing something your customers need? Tell us.

The driver list, the reports and the exports on the device grew out of support calls, not a roadmap slide. A protocol we don't speak yet, a report your customer's quality team wants, a CSV their MES imports, a preconfigured profile shipped with the machine — write to us. The developer reads every request and answers it; the ones that make a support call shorter tend to get built.

Already there for integrators: a profile per machine on one device, profile export from the app so the customer gets your exact screens, per-tag write unlock with an audit log, and Tailscale remote access you revoke yourself.

Try itOn your own bench first

Try it on your own bench first

It's the same app your customers get — with a built-in demo line, so you can see the whole flow before recommending it.

Working with plants that need this? We're looking for integrator partners for pilots — tell us about your plants in the contact form.

FAQFair questions

FAQ

Does LineKeeper replace the integrator?

No — it removes the licensed-software and travel friction from a support call, not the engineering. Auto-discovery hands anyone hundreds of tags, but tag names mean nothing without the person who knows the scaling, the interlocks and which of three Start bits is real. That knowledge stays yours to bill.

Can I review a customer's configuration remotely?

Yes. With LK On (on preorder), built-in Tailscale remote access opens the same interface from your desk — per person and revocable — for looking and supporting: live values, alarms, history and settings. Writes to the machine and alarm acknowledgment are refused over a remote connection and are done at the device or on the plant network. The audit log records every sign-in, tag unlock and write with role, time and value. In the free app, writes are a per-tag unlock with confirmation and limit checks. Either way there is an audit trail of who did what.

What does it cost the customer?

Reading is free in the app. Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription) unlocks writing values and machine history on real controllers. The backup-HMI touchscreen device is on preorder: 7″ $800, 10″ $900 one-time — ships within 8 weeks of order, full refund any time before shipping, 30-day money-back after delivery.

Can you add a feature our customers need?

Ask. The driver list, the reports and the exports on the device grew out of support calls, not a roadmap slide. A protocol we don't speak yet, a report your customer's quality team wants, a CSV their MES imports, a preconfigured profile shipped with the machine — write it in the contact form and the developer answers, not a bot. We can't promise every request, but every one is read and answered.