Post by darwin03 on Mismatch between coordinate monitor and actual motion using SMC_GroupJog2, MC_MoveLinearAbsolute (6DOF) ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi Georg, Thanks for your previous suggestion. I was able to resolve the issue! I'm now trying to build the 6DOF robot again, but I'm not sure why this is happening. Even when I simulate it in RoboDK using the joint angles from my code, the robot's motion still seems abnormal. Do you have any ideas what might be causing this? Thank you for taking the time to look into my question! Best regards, darwin03 Video link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PBqS4yIY2R_CZ3celSKz-BXVRk8pCHKz/view?usp=sharing
Last updated: 2026-10-09

Post by kevintumibay on Struggling to connect to EK1100 to Raspberry Pi ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
SUMMARIZED VERSION OF QUESTION: I'm trying to connect a Raspberry Pi running "Codesys Control for Raspberry Pi" to a Beckhoff EK1100, unfortunately, when I try to connect I get the following messages SEE FIRST PICTURE DETAILED VERSION OF QUESTION: Hi everyone, I'm a college student that is super interested in learning about PLCs. I wanted to dive into the subject and decided to follow this great Instructables article: https://www.instructables.com/Programming-Raspberry-Pi-With-CODESYS/ Thank you in advance for your help! My current setup is as follows: 1. I have Codesys Control for Raspberry Pi, version 4.14.0.0, (https://store.codesys.com/en/codesys-control-for-raspberry-pi-sl.html) installed on a Raspberry Pi 3B. 2. I am using my smartphone hotspot to create a network. 3. I have CODESYS 3.5 SP21 (64 bit) installed on my Windows 11 laptop. 4. Both the Raspberry Pi and my laptop are connected to the smartphone hotspot network (I am wirelessly connecting to the Raspberry Pi). Connecting to the Raspberry Pi from CODESYS on my laptop: 1. I launch Codesys Installer -> I install Codesys Control for Raspberry Pi (link to the software). 2. I launch Codesys 3.5 SP21 (64 bit) on my laptop. 3. I go to file --> new project --> standard project --> in the pop-up I select "Codesys Control for Raspberry Pi" and "Structured Text" 4. I click on tools -> Deploy Control SL (on older versions of Codesys you would click on "update Raspberry Pi", I got that information from this video: link) 5. Inside Deploy Control SL --> I go to the "communication" menu and I input the IP address of my Pi, the password, and click on connect. 6. Inside Deploy Control SL --> I go to the "deployment" menu and I install Codesys Control for Raspberry Pi SL and Codesys Edge Gateway for Linux 7. Now I double click on "device" in the left hand tree and put in the IP address of my Raspberry Pi and click on connect --> success! I am able to connect! SEE SECOND PICTURE Powering the EK1100 and connecting it to the Raspberry Pi: 1. I am supplying the EK1100 with 24 V across the + and - pins. 2. I have jumper wires going from the + pin to the 24V pin and from the - pin to the 0V pin. SEE THIRD PICTURE 4. I am pretty confident that the EK1100 is receiving power because the "LED Us 24 V" and "LED Up 24 V" are lighting up. 5. I then run an ethernet cable from the EK1100 to the Raspberry Pi port (the Raspberry Pi is connected to my laptop wirelessly over WiFi). I think this connection should also be good since the LINK/ACT LED lights up. Trying to connect to the EK1100: 1. Back in Codesys I right-click on "Device" in the left tree and then in the pop up I click on "add device". 2. I then click on EtherCAT Master. 3. Next in a terminal window I SSH into the raspberry Pi and run the "ifconfig" command. 4. From there I get the MAC address for eth0 --> in my case: b8:27:eb:29:a9:25 5. Then, back in Codesys I double click on "EtherCAT Master" in the left hand tree. I then paste the MAC address into the "Source Address (MAC)" field. 6. I go to the Beckhoff official website and download the XML files for EtherCAT: https://www.beckhoff.com/en-en/products/i-o/ethercat-terminals/ek1xxx-bk1xx0-ethercat-coupler/ek1100.html? 7. I unzip those files in my computer into some folder that I can remember. 8. Back in Codesys I click on "Tools" --> "Device Repository" --> "Install" --> and then on the "Beckhoff EK11xx.XML" file. 9. In theory the necessary XML file is now installed. 10. THIS IS WHERE I RUN INTO THE PROBLEM: I then click on login --> I right click on EtherCAT_Master and then scan for devices --> and nothing. 11. It just doesn't detect it. On top of this whenever I login I get those orange triangles on the left on my tree. When I check the Log I get the messages at the very first screenshot of this post. SEE FOURTH PICTURE Solutions that I have tried to resolve this problem: 1. I thought it was maybe the .XML file so I installed all the .XML files from the EtherCAT folder that I downloaded. That didn't fix it. 2. I went on the Wayback Machine and got the .XML files from 2018 as I thought maybe an older version would work. This file of EtherCAT folders had a .XML file named "Beckhoff EKxxxx.XML" I thought this would work because that's the name of the file the guy in the Instructables used (https://www.instructables.com/Programming-Raspberry-Pi-With-CODESYS/). That didn't do anything. 3. I ran the PLC on my computer instead of the Raspberry Pi and tried to connect to the EK1100, in case the issue was with the Raspberry Pi, but I still ran into the same error from the picture above: "Attention! The device was not found in the repository. Vendorcode: 0x0. Productcode: 0x0. Revision: 0x0". SEE FIFTH PICTURE 4. I reinstalled Codesys, I was originally on version 3.5 SP20 when I did this, I upgraded to 3.5 SP21 with no success. 5. I then thought the solution might be to first add the EK1100 hardware before connecting so I did the following: 6. Right click on "EtherCAT Master" on the left hand tree --> then click on "add device" --> then I added the "EK1100 EtherCAT Coupler (2A E-Bus)" MY THEORY OF WHAT IS CAUSING THE PROBLEM: I asked ChatGPT for help and it said that it might have something to do with the revision number. On the physical EK1100 it says "Rev. Nr.: 0018". I believe that this means that I need to a revision 0018 XML file but if you look in Codesys it says the version is 16 (picture above). This is confusing because I got my .XML file from the official Codesys website so it should be the most up to date version possible. I searched and I searched and I couldn't find a version 18 .XML file, I don't even now if this exists. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated, I don't know what to do anymore and I really really want to get this working. Thank you!
Last updated: 2025-03-30

Post by jinlee on Dynamic I/Os Mapping ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi guys, Recently, I am working at the Dynamic I/Os mapping feature in Ecockpit or Codesys v3.5. I have been trying the libraries. However, it looks like it will not work as I wanted. I want to build the PLC which can detect all the I/Os itself and from there, I can do something on these channels. For example, the current setup is one digital input card, one digital output card and one analogue input card. Then, I want to add one more card into the setup e.g. one more digital input. Then, wago screen can detect this and we can assign them to tasks for example to control digital output. May I know is it possible ? Kind regards
Last updated: 2023-08-18

Post by sunfloweeerrry on Edgelogix-rpi-1000-cm4102032 SPI port connection to PiFace I/O Driver in CodeSys. ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Please anyone help there is not a lot reference about this.
Last updated: 2023-08-21

Post by eschwellinger on Raspberry Pi Control SL MC - Restoring License not working anymore! ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
you need to use 'my question ' in the CODESYS store
Last updated: 2023-08-24

Post by smercante on Unable to Import PLC Open XML from Easy Remote IO ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hello dear. I have the same problem. Could you solve it? Do you use GLV variables?
Last updated: 2023-08-24

Post by jegerjon on Same program to more than one PLC ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I guess you could archive the project, open the archive and go online. Is that suffiecient for your use case?
Last updated: 2023-08-25

Post by gregor on PFC 200 - codesys V3.5 ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
As far as I know, only if someone downloaded sourcecode to the PLC.
Last updated: 2023-08-25

Post by arnaud on eCockpit - unable to start simulation ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi there! I'm using eCockpit WAGO software to develop HMI's for multiple projects. As I recently starting this, my knowledge on the software is somewhat limited (so maybe my question is a simple one). For most of my projects I can simulate the application and start it to test the code and HMI. However for two projects, I can initiate the "simulation activation" but I cannot start it. Nothing happens when I press start and the visualization shows "The online visualization is waiting for connection. please start the application". - I don't see any errors in the messages - Initially the project are made by a colleague, which moved on. I guess I'm forgetting something, like missing a setting. I appreciate any help I can get. If you need more information to help me out, let me know. Thanks!
Last updated: 2023-08-25

Post by eschwellinger on Problems connecting to Codesys 4.9.0.0 runtime on my Wago PFC200 ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I've send out a workaround for this.. Best Regards Edwin
Last updated: 2023-08-26

Post by totorovic on CSVReaderInit returns error : INVALID_HANDLE ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hello, Can we please have some details about the error : INVALID_HANDLE? So we can try to avoid it.
Last updated: 2023-08-28

Post by eschwellinger on v3.5 SP19 - Modbus TCP Devices - Channel Limit? ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Guess you could just add two modbus slaves with the same ip, to enlarge the 10 channel limit.
Last updated: 2023-08-28

Post by reinier-geers on Trun off webvisu ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
How do i see if Webvisu is active and how to shot down if i dont want webvisu?
Last updated: 2023-08-29

Post by eschwellinger on new feature: list/view plclogs from the plcs ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Since 1.31.0.0 version there is this really helpful feature to browse the plclogs remote via CODESYS Automation server:
Last updated: 2023-08-30

Post by hwillems on Ranges, Lambdas, on Fixed arrays of structs ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I do datastructures and algorithms in Codesys. For example a Struct of Person with thing's like IdNumber, Name, Age etc. as example. Now i do all kind of calculations, filters. So i have this pretty big Fixed Array with Structs. On this struct i want to do simple stuff you can do easily in C++/Python/Rust etc. For example i want to do this: AvererageAge := Average(Peoples.Age); Then it will return the average of all members ages. Or Sort struct on age etc. Or sort on alphabetical Name. Or use Lambda functions to filter/mutate out things like, filter out everybody above 18 years old. Or remove people who it's name start with "A". Currently i have to write my own custom function for example sorting on Age. And make a super specific function based on that particulare datastructure. Here an Example: (*Before calling this FIlter method, set the mNodeFilterSwitch to the desired filter.*) CASE mNodeFilterSelect OF (********************************[ Status Filters ]***********************************) NodeID: FOR x := ACS_OUT_BEGIN TO ACS_OUT_END BY 1 DO FOR y := ACS_IN_BEGIN TO ACS_IN_END BY 1 DO IF marrNode[y].Status.oiNodeID > marrNode[y + 1].Status.oiNodeID THEN mNodeTemp := marrNode[y + 1]; marrNode[y + 1] := marrNode[y]; marrNode[y] := mNodeTemp; END_IF; END_FOR; END_FOR; Started: FOR x := DES_OUT_BEGIN TO DES_OUT_END BY -1 DO FOR y := DES_IN_BEGIN TO DES_IN_END BY -1 DO IF marrNode[y].Status.oxStarted > marrNode[y - 1].Status.oxStarted THEN mNodeTemp := marrNode[y - 1]; marrNode[y - 1] := marrNode[y]; marrNode[y] := mNodeTemp; END_IF; END_FOR; END_FOR; Starting: FOR x := DES_OUT_BEGIN TO DES_OUT_END BY -1 DO FOR y := DES_IN_BEGIN TO DES_IN_END BY -1 DO IF marrNode[y].Status.oxStarting > marrNode[y - 1].Status.oxStarting THEN mNodeTemp := marrNode[y - 1]; marrNode[y - 1] := marrNode[y]; marrNode[y] := mNodeTemp; END_IF; END_FOR; END_FOR; END_CASE; I have like 30+ of these in the enum. Not really DRY code right? These are custom made bubble sort filters in a function. You pass in the Datastructure, and say what function you want. (This is an enum collection of sorting functions) And then the Array with Nodes of Structs gets ordered. Why can't we have Iterators and Lambda's and build in standard functions like regular languages? Also i use bubble sort because it's the easiest to implement because i can't get this to code DRY. Problem with ST (Even the new one with classes) that it's very limited for programming datastructures and algorithms. Yes you still not want dynamic memory and you need to choose the correct algorithm so you know the most extreme edge cases regarding the time it takes to execute the algorithms.(Real-time execution) How are other people dealing with this? Here for example saw some software using an adjusted ST language and having FOR EACH possibility: https://www.fernhillsoftware.com/help/iec-61131/structured-text/st-for-each.html You can then build your own custom Iterator functions. I wish the IEC 61131-3 standard would be more expressive and having more standard modern features, but still keep close to the fact of no dynamics memory and real-time systems.
Last updated: 2023-08-31

Post by jegerjon on VPN ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, witch VPN provider for remote PLC Acess do you use/recomend? Preferedbly one where you can Grant certain users acess to specific controllers.
Last updated: 2023-09-06

Post by jegerjon on VPN ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, witch VPN provider for remote PLC Acess do you use/recomend? Preferedbly one where you can Grant certain users acess to specific controllers.
Last updated: 2023-09-06

Post by jegerjon on VPN ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, witch VPN provider for remote PLC Acess do you use/recomend? Preferedbly one where you can Grant certain users acess to specific controllers.
Last updated: 2023-09-06

Post by jari-koivuluoma on JSON_Utilities_SL JSONFileWriter error NULL_POINTER ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
FB jsonFileWriter gives a NULL_POINTER error, why? JSONByteArrayWriter works fine so the JSONData FB should be fine. The device is CODESYS Control Win V3 x64 in simulation mode. Codesys version is V3.5 SP16 Patch 5 JSON_Utilities_SL version is 1.3.0.0 Src: ST_TestStruct1a; TXT: WSTRING(10000); MakeJSON : BOOL := TRUE; SrcJSONData: JSON.JSONData; jsonFileWriter : JSON.JSONFileWriter; IF MakeJSON THEN MakeJSON := FALSE; // Struct data to JSONData FB F_TestStructToJSON(ADR(Src),ADR(SrcJSONData)); // Writing to file jsonFileWriter( xExecute := TRUE, sFileName := 'c:\JSONTEST\JSON.txt', eEncoding := JSON.Encoding.UTF_16, xAsyncMode := TRUE, jsonData := SrcJSONData ); // Waiting to finish WHILE jsonFileWriter.xBusy DO ; END_WHILE // To text jsonArrayWriter( xExecute := TRUE, pwData := ADR(TXT), udiSize := SIZEOF(TXT), jsonData := SrcJSONData, xAsyncMode := FALSE, ); END_IF
Last updated: 2023-09-08

Post by eschwellinger on Project compiling error in Simulation mode ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I fear you need to update if you need a solution for this.
Last updated: 2023-09-08

Post by necatibilgin on How to access files correctly in Linux ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
This may help you. https://forge.codesys.com/forge/talk/Engineering/thread/3da9ded84e/?limit=250#62b3
Last updated: 2023-09-12

Post by transmin01 on EL6751 Canopen_Manager issue ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Fixed, in the end it just required the target to be rebooted. DOH! Regards Trevor
Last updated: 2023-09-12

Post by timvh on Get the numer of day ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
For a demo application related to date/time, see: https://forge.codesys.com/prj/codesys-example/date-and-time/home/Home/
Last updated: 2023-09-14

Post by eschwellinger on EtherCat Master cannot open network adaptor on Win10x64 target ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
you need to have either Winpcap (versions < CODESYS 3.5.19.0) or Npcap installed
Last updated: 2023-09-20

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