Avoid loading PLC at startup when autostart is not set in command line. As a side effect PLC status is artificially set to Stopped, and StartPLC eventually loads PLC if it is not already loaded.
from __future__ import absolute_import
from etherlab.etherlab import *
from util.BitmapLibrary import AddBitmapFolder
import util.paths as paths
AddBitmapFolder(os.path.join(paths.AbsDir(__file__), "images"))