Welcome to EtherNet/IP Driver for Communication to Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLCs

[dazach]

LV executables install other dlls that are required, do know why this one would be excluded.

[BlueCheese]

My hunch is that your other driver DLLs get installed as part of the "Additional Installers" settings in the installer. This driver does not yet have the full support to appear in that list to be installed as an installer dependency. For other drivers this would be a bigger problem because they have many more DLLs and installer pieces (not to mention other dependencies) that must be installed to work right, hence their need to actually include an additional installer rather than just installing a DLL inside of the LabVIEW installer.

Eric

[RichardJennings]

Hello,

I have a couple of projects with immediate use for these VIs, however I'm having difficulty understanding correct usage. I am currently reading and writing to a MicroLogix 1500 using an Automation Direct OPC server via DF1. There has been no problem with communications but I would like to remove the extra piece of software. I have downloaded the drivers and am able to read data using EthernetIP SLC500 Read Float and Read INT, but am not able to read and write to Booleans. Using the VI "EthernetIP Tag Read BOOL.vi" returns the following error when I try to read the tag B3:0/4

Error -251723772 occurred at EthernetIP Tag Read BOOL.vi;
Details: The tag name is not correctly formatted

Possible reason(s):

Ethernet/IP Industrial Protocol: (Hex 0xF0FF0004) The tag name is not correctly formatted

Can you help me with the correct format?

Thanks,

Richard

[BlueCheese]

Hi Richard,

The Tag Read/Write VIs are for Data Table Read/Writes which I believe only the ControlLogix and similiar support (the ones programmed with RSLogix5000). For the MicroLogix you'll want to use the SLC500 Read/Write VIs on the same palette. Currently though they only support accessing integer and float register files, not binary, so you'd have to alias some of your data over to the integer register file via some simple ladder logic or other fashion.

Let me know if you run into any other issues,

Eric 

[RichardJennings]

That severely limits the usefullness of these VIs. Modifying the PLC is not an option.

[BlueCheese]

Richard,

I prototyped adding support for the Bit register file as well. I'll try to see if it can be pushed into an updated version shortly.

Eric

[JF3M]

Hello Eric,

Is it possible to include string arrays in a future version also (for ControlLogix)?  I noticed all arrays seemed to be supported except string arrays.  I tested a way to make this work using the RAW format, but it is kind of a pain and hard to document.