Post by mil581 on Modbus TCP Server connection is ESTABLISHED but all holding registers are value 0? ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hello everyone! I'm facing a weird issue with CODESYS Control Win V3 x64 on a fresh Windows install. The situation is as follows: CODESYS Modbus TCP Server (Slave) is running and I can see live values in the mapping display of Modbus settings: GVL (e.g., 32, 42, 50). Port 502 is LISTENING according to netstat. When connecting via Modbus Poll or Node-RED, the connection status changes to ESTABLISHED and everything reports as fine. The Problem: Despite the successful connection, all holding registers return 0 no matter what. It's like the OS accepts the TCP handshake, the request counter goes up but the data payload never reaches Modbus Client (in this case Node-RED or Modbus Poll). Quick Stats: Firewall: Completely OFF. Unit ID: Verified & Matching. IP: Tried 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.1. Interface: Correctly bound in Ethernet Device settings. I already tried absolutely everything from changing IP address, subnet, port, deleting the project and starting new one and even nuking my old Windows install. Since I am near completion of my bachelor thesis only thing left for me to do is connect SoftPLC to NodeRED via Modbus but this issue is driving me crazy for weeks. I do not know what to do anymore.
Last updated: 2025-12-25

Post by edson-bueno on IFM Controller Connection Issue ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, Could you please send an print of your ethernet adapter info? Ip addr Subnet Mask Default Gateway Also, check if the gateway service is active in your windows. Win+R > services.msc > Look in the list CODESYS Control Win V3 x64 Gateway OR CODESYS Gateway V3 Hook up the M12 code D into the ETH port, supply the controller, it should apperars to you. Make sure when you try to connect with the controller, the target of your project has to match with the controller. Otherwise, click on the device in the devices tree > Communications Settings tab > Device > Options > And disable "Filter Network Scans by Target ID". Good luck.
Last updated: 2025-05-29

Post by antonz on CoDeSys v3.5: creating libraries for both 32-bit and 64-bit controllers ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Follow up question: in the Project Settings, under Library Development, there is an option related to this: Check all Pool Objects -> Pointer size to use Options are: * 32 Bit * 64 Bit * 32 and 64 Bit The descriptions and online help suggest to me this is only relevant for checking and showing any incorrect pointer types as an error in the IDE. E.g. using a DWORD to store a pointer value on a 64-bit controller. It would not control the creation of either 32-bit or 64-bit compiled libraries. Is that correct?
Last updated: 2025-09-01

Post by bbmussatto on Connetion with Topcon Opus B3 ECO Full display ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I have a Topcon Opus B3 ECO Full display and i wanna program it with codesys, but i cant connect it to the display. After creating a new project, i choose the device "Opus B3-B4-B6-3.5.19.50" that is already available in my version of codesys, but i think the problem is that my version of codesys or something else is not the same as the codesys runtime version running on my display. Can anyone tell me how i can see the codesys runtime version on my display? i tried looking in the settings (Daemon > CDS) on the display, but all i see is "N/A" for "Customer Number", "Customer Part Number" and "Customer Serial Number". Can anyone help me make this connection?
Last updated: 2025-10-07

Post by imdatatas on MC_MoveAbsolute: C0138: No matching 'FB_Init' method found for instantiation of SMC_MoveAbsRelPerformerImpl [ERROR] ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Dear @gseidel, Thank you for your reply. The exact version of Codesys and its compiler was 3.5.21.20. The compiler version was fixed and could not be changed in project settings. Since I couldn't continue due to this compilation error, I temporarily overcame this issue as follows. -- I completely uninstalled Codesys 3.5.21.20 and completely deleted the Codesys folder in the C:\ProgramData folder. -- I restarted my computer and installed Codesys 3.5.19.70. -- I updated the Codesys Installer and all its add-ons to the latest versions. -- The project that was giving me the compilation error I mentioned before is now open with Codesys 3.5.19.70, compiled it, and successfully downloaded it on the device. -- I haven't encountered the same problem anymore. I think this issue is related to SP21 and its compiler. Frankly, I'd expect a project created with an older version to compile without errors after opening it with the latest Codesys version and updating all libraries. Regards, imdatatas
Last updated: 2025-09-26

Post by edepalos on Text list from sd card ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi guys, I have a textlist in my project which is working just as expected in a drop down list. I would like to move this text list to a sd card and access it from there, because I want to ease the editing of the contents of this textlist. I'm imagining a solution like the operator shuts down the plant, takes the sd card out, edits the textlist on the card with a windows machines notepad, then reinserts the card in the PLC and restarts the plant, having the new content of the textlist populating the dropdown list. I'm sorry that I'm asking you to spoonfeed me, but I did not find anything straightforward to do this... I saw in the Project>Project settings>Visualisation a relative path thingy, but I have the plant in operation and I would not like to make 100 trial and errors right now... I'm also not interested in SysLib file read commands and stuff, I would just like to access the file from the cards part, I don't want to replace its contents dynamically or such... nor I have language files or recipes... Thank You in advance! Br, Ede
Last updated: 2024-01-16

Post by willbechel on Project Login Problem ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I saved it as the same project but in a different location. I opened this "new project". I clicked on the "Direct Login from Automation Builder" button. It automatically directed me to CODESYS, where I was able to create the "Create Boot Project" but first I also clicked login again but inside CODESYS keeping the automation builder login online. Additional Information: The "Create Boot Project" function in CODESYS is used to create a project that will automatically start when the controller is booted up. To create a boot project, you must first create a new project in CODESYS. Once you have created a new project, you can then use the "Create Boot Project" function to create a boot application. The "Create Boot Project" function will create a new application that is based on the current project. The new application will be saved in the same location as the current project. You can then download the new application to the controller.
Last updated: 2024-02-01

Post by jeroenaero on Targetvisualisation full screen with CmpTargetVisu settings ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, How can i display targetvisualization in full screen on the target device? I installed Targetvisu For Linux SL 4.16.0.0 on target device which contains Raspberry PI 64bit PIXEL desktop. When i connect my PLC program to the remote targetvisu, the targetvisu displays for 60% horizontally. We contacted CODESYS and they said it is a bug. they had a workaround, and with the settings below added to the file /etc/codesysvisualization/CODESYSVisualizationTV.cfg, the targetvisualization display for 100%, but with the taskbar at the top. VisuClient.BestFit=1 ;VisuClient.ScaleTypeIsotropic=0 VisuClient.FillWholeBackground=1 [CmpTargetVisu] WindowPositionX=0 WindowPositionY=0 WindowSizeWidth=1280 WindowSizeHeight=800 WindowType=2 How can we let it display fullscreen without taskbar?
Last updated: 2025-07-24

Post by kthomas on Cant login to Rpi4 but can see it in codesys communications settings. ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I have been struggling for over a week to program my rapspberry pi 4 with codesys. I purchased the license. I installed the runtime and the gateway, and I can see the pi in the communication settings. But cannot log in. I have checked the status of the pi with sudo systemctl status codesyscontrol and it is running. I have enabled traffic to and from the pi with iptables and checked the logs and all looks good. I just cannot connect through the codesys ide. Can anyone help me before I lose my mind?
Last updated: 2024-06-22

Post by kthomas on Cant login to Rpi4 but can see it in codesys communications settings. ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I have been struggling for over a week to program my rapspberry pi 4 with codesys. I purchased the license. I installed the runtime and the gateway, and I can see the pi in the communication settings. But cannot log in. I have checked the status of the pi with sudo systemctl status codesyscontrol and it is running. I have enabled traffic to and from the pi with iptables and checked the logs and all looks good. I just cannot connect through the codesys ide. Can anyone help me before I lose my mind?
Last updated: 2024-06-22

Post by swol on HTML 5 - Controls -> Change Content-Security-Policy settings ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Sorry for being late to the party... so it is not possible to use the webbrowser tool to display external websites in a visu anymore? As it is not possible to simply "adjust the ContentSecurityPolicyIncludeTrustedOrigins setting in the automatically generated webvisu.cfg.json file" as stated in the docs? We need to display data read from a Raspberry Pi (part of our computer network) in our webvisu. We used to do it by entering the Pi's IP address as the URL variable in the webbrowser element but now (I don't know since when, I'm new on the job) "The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource (frame-src) at 'IP address' because it violates the following directive: “default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'”. What are the options for displaying the data?
Last updated: 2025-11-11

What is the best way to upgrade a project to a new version of Codesys? ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
What is the best way to upgrade a project to a new version of Codesys?
Last updated: 2022-03-01

"Update boot project" is default unchecked by login in V3.5 SP14 Patch1 ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
"Update boot project" is default unchecked by login in V3.5 SP14 Patch1
Last updated: 2019-04-22

Start Codesys project and then execute python script from command line ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
Start Codesys project and then execute python script from command line
Last updated: 2024-09-30

Post by ton on Project loses 'Download time' information ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, This is with Combivis Studio. I thought you need a license from KEB to create a boot project.
Last updated: 2024-12-20

Connecting Parameter 'A' in G-Code to Physical Axis in CNC Project ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
Connecting Parameter 'A' in G-Code to Physical Axis in CNC Project
Last updated: 2025-05-07

Post by ranadheer on PHOENIX CONTACT Axioline PLCnext project in CodeSys SodftPLC ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Is my approach to create a project without using PLCnext possible?
Last updated: 2025-09-09

download project via codesys is slow but tftp/ftp/iperf is fast ?? ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
download project via codesys is slow but tftp/ftp/iperf is fast ??
Last updated: 2025-09-20

download project via codesys is slow but tftp/ftp/iperf is fast ?? ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
download project via codesys is slow but tftp/ftp/iperf is fast ??
Last updated: 2025-09-20

Post by ouzago on ERROR C0138: No matching 'FB_Init' method found for instantiation of VisuClientObjectMgr ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
When I created a new project in CODESYS using the "Standard Project" template and then added a Visualization, I was receiving the C0138 error during compilation. This issue persisted even with a new, completely empty project. A Quick and Effective Solution (My Method): After many attempts, I solved the problem as follows: From the File -> New Project menu, I selected the "HMI Project" template directly, instead of the "Standard Project" template. After creating the project with this template, I added my POUs, Tasks, and programs (e.g., Ladder, ST). Using this method, the project compiled successfully without any errors. So, my question is: are there any other solutions besides this method?
Last updated: 2025-10-07

Post by matteodigani on Add library .dll to project codesys. ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, Is it possible to add a .dll library to a codesys project ? The .dll library is created with C++/CLI.
Last updated: 2025-10-14

XSoft-Codesys 2.3.9 Crashed, I can't load my project now ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
XSoft-Codesys 2.3.9 Crashed, I can't load my project now
Last updated: 2014-06-13

Unable to get retain variables to work in a specific Raspberry Pi project ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
Unable to get retain variables to work in a specific Raspberry Pi project
Last updated: 2019-12-03

V 1.56.49.0 Project not loading on Codesys V3.5 SP17 Patch 2 ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
V 1.56.49.0 Project not loading on Codesys V3.5 SP17 Patch 2
Last updated: 2021-11-12

Codesys Control RTE Win V3 x64 Project download slow (500 kbps) ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Thread)}
Codesys Control RTE Win V3 x64 Project download slow (500 kbps)
Last updated: 2023-06-08

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