Post by blitz on Can't get SMC_SmoothPath to work ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
So in my case the solution was that I had both smooth path and round path in the code. Both blocks had their own buffer and seemed completely separate but still triggering Execute on both caused the mentioned problems. When I blocked Execute the problems disappeared.
Last updated: 2026-01-11

Post by gilad on CODESYS SoftMotion Generic DSP402 on WAGO PFC200 + Festo CMMT-AS: MC_Power stays Busy, Controlword remains 0 ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Thank you very much, What FESTO provides should work even if I use another PLC (WAGO) that is not from FESTO?
Last updated: 6 days ago

Post by davidbo on *EXCEPTION* [ProsessorLoadWatchdog] codesys 3.5.11.40 ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Under Application->"Task Configuration" you can find your task double click on that and you will see a fane to the right. You find the watchdog enable switch it off or increase the time
Last updated: 2025-11-17

Post by seler on Custom button with output status ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I did some work around by adding IN switch on top of OUT bulb picture(SwitchImage) and setting IN switch button to invisible but this is not quite elegant. How to combine it to one visu element?
Last updated: 2025-11-20

Post by danamocca on SM3_CNC Sentence modifier ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi! Does anyone have an example of ReadNCFile2 with Sentence Modifier? Current examples on CODESYS help page are outdated and have a lot of errors, like "SMC_CNC_LibParams.MAX_SUBPROGRAM_NESTING_DEPTH" calls, which are not present in current version of SMC3_CNC library.
Last updated: 2025-12-25

Post by karsonsv on CODESYS HMI and 2 monitors ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I need open visualization on two monitors (every monitor 19201080). In TargetVisu i configure Scaling Options as Fixed 38401080. But visualization open onli main monitor and onli half.
Last updated: 2026-01-02

Post by nulltrace on How change Unity-ID in TCP Modbus Slave ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hey Husarz. i don't forget you, the Thing is, to give you my answer, i have to wait for Answer from Codesys/E. Schwellinger. i suspect Mr. Schwellinger is on in Vacations that week. so please, be patient at moment
Last updated: 2026-04-10

Post by away on Visualization stops responding ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi @spiritcore, Did you find a resolution to this? I'm running into a similar issue using TargetVisu when a user uses the login. It only happens sometimes, and when it does the login/logout buttons still work but the other buttons on the screen don't work.
Last updated: 2026-04-22

Post by timvh on Alarmmanagement – Dynamic Alarm List ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Probably best to create an alarm template for your motor function block. Then automatically the alarm manager can be filled with all the alarms for all instances of the motor function blocks (based on the created alarm template). See: https://content.helpme-codesys.com/en/CODESYS%20Visualization/_cds_obj_alarm_group_template.html
Last updated: 2026-04-25

Post by caualima on AI + Programming ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
What do you think about having an AI Agent specialized in ST programming in Codesys? I see this saving hours and hours of work for those who program on a daily basis.
Last updated: 2026-01-24

Post by eschwellinger on The element of type 'VisuFbElemImage' could not be updated. Reason: Index was outside the bounds of the array. ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
check with the CODESYS Installer er if you are on latest Visuversion. 4.9.1.0
Last updated: 2026-01-27

Post by husarz17 on How change Unity-ID in TCP Modbus Slave ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I need the same issue. In my application TCP server on raspberry (codesys) should have UnitID 1. But it only works when I am requesting with UnitID 255. And my application can't work with this parameters...
Last updated: 2026-03-31

Post by nulltrace on How change Unity-ID in TCP Modbus Slave ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hey Husarz, thanks for your Message, now i understand your Problem, also able to reproduce that. Pls. give me a Short Time to Check some stuff on this, i'll come back to this Topic with news ASAP. Greetings
Last updated: 2026-04-03

Post by malie on Issue with library updates ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hello, i got the same problem, but on my site it started with version 3.5.21, with version 3.5.19.7 it worked like a charm. How get the old behavior back? Or how to reload the librarys in an open project/library manually?
Last updated: 2026-04-24

Post by reinier-geers on Network variable stops sending ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
What version. 20.5 ? ive got also problems wiyth that version. Online change, it hangs itself after one hour. Then one project can problems. Ive change display with 21.0 . At home i turned on the 20.5 display. After 1 hour i goes to stop.
Last updated: 2026-05-06

Post by dhumphries on install codesys runtime on linux ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
I'm running the 3.5.18.20 IDE, installed the control for linux SL package from the installer. Following the directions here: https://content.helpme-codesys.com/en/CODESYS%20Control/_rtsl_install_runtime_on_controller.html it says: Installing the runtime package with CODESYS on the Linux device Click Tools → Update CODESYS Control for <device> SL.</device> I don't have the update option in my tools menu. I've tried it without opening a project, as well as with a project open that uses the control for linux SL as a device. I have found the update device option by right clicking on the device in the device tree, but this only lets me change the device the project is using not load the runtime on the linux computer. Is there an updated instruction somewhere, or do I need to do some further preparation like install additional packages?
Last updated: 2023-11-04

Post by appling on License status of Linux 64Bit runtime via CLI ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, I have a Linux 64Bit system with a Codesys application running on it. It stops after 2hours and a few minutes, which makes me think something is wrong with the installed license. (in my last timing it stopped after 2h4min, on the codesys website it is stated that runtimes without a license stop after 2h) I installed the license via a USB license dongle that I activated on my workstation with the Codesys IDE a while ago. Now the system is shipped at not accessible physically, only remotely via SSH. So is there a way to check the status of the License of the Codesys runtime when it is running on the system? Running the codesyscontrol script with "status" just tells me that it is running, but does not provide any license information. Best regards
Last updated: 2023-12-04

Post by andre-luis on Check if Codesys runtime is on 'Running' or 'Stopped' state? ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi there, I'm running the Codesys runtime on Windows 64 and I need to know if it is on "Running" or "Stopped" state just after a system crash. The following commands works perfectly well to (re)start it... net stop “CODESYS Control Win V3 - x64" net start “CODESYS Control Win V3 - x64" ...however I'm unable to determine when it is required to be call; I mean, by checking the System Tray icon, it is possible to know if it is on "Stopped" state, but I wanted to run a .BAT command to retrieve it. How can we do that?
Last updated: 2024-07-02

Post by shrikantp007 on help to get codesys understand ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hello , I need some help on how to start with , 1) how to get test license to test codesys , 2) how to take a configuration backup or running process back and post file on fourm so people can understand and deploy same file and get idea what is missing or configure wrong 3) where i can get pdf for codesys admin or programmer 4) what is hardware recommand ,i am running on windows guest on kvm server .is it ok ? 5) i am trying to get ardunio porject working ,using ardunio board as a modbus slave but its not working some how https://forge.codesys.com/forge/talk/Engineering/thread/bf832569b8/ Thanks in advance . shrikant pune -india
Last updated: 2024-07-22

Post by peterkcontrols on TargetVisu started in windowed or not full screen ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hello, I am using Codesys on an industrial pc with a single monitor. I would also like to have a separate vision software running on the PC and would like to display it half screen. When I run the soft PLC the my visualization screen appears full screen, I would like to be able to set the size of the visualization screen so I can display other software on the monitor. Is it possible to set the width/height of the targetVisu? Anyone try something similar? I would like to avoid having to put it on a Virtual Machine. Thank you
Last updated: 2025-02-26

Post by s1mon on Two OneWireMaster on one Raspberry PI 5 ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, I want to use two OneWireMaster on a Raspberry Pi5. I'm running Codesys Control for Raspberry Pi 64SL V 4.15.0.0. Under Linux I've configured two GPIOs for 1w bus usage on GPIO4 and GPIO27. Under Linux both masters seem to work fine and I can readout both sensors connected to both GPIOs. The two masters are 'w1_bus_master1' and 'w1_bus_master2'. In Codesys I've configured to OneWireMasters with the corresponding file paths. But in Codesys the 2nd onewiremaster "w1_bus_master2" doesn't work. Status is showing "OnewireMaster : Not running" What am I doing wrong? Does Codesys on Raspberry support multiple OneWireMasters? Any help is appreciated.
Last updated: 2025-06-10

Post by s1mon on Two OneWireMaster on one Raspberry PI 5 ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi, I want to use two OneWireMaster on a Raspberry Pi5. I'm running Codesys Control for Raspberry Pi 64SL V 4.15.0.0. Under Linux I've configured two GPIOs for 1w bus usage on GPIO4 and GPIO27. Under Linux both masters seem to work fine and I can readout both sensors connected to both GPIOs. The two masters are 'w1_bus_master1' and 'w1_bus_master2'. In Codesys I've configured to OneWireMasters with the corresponding file paths. But in Codesys the 2nd onewiremaster "w1_bus_master2" doesn't work. Status is showing "OnewireMaster : Not running" What am I doing wrong? Does Codesys on Raspberry support multiple OneWireMasters? Any help is appreciated.
Last updated: 2025-06-10

Post by monteta on Automation without UI ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hello all, there is my problem. i have a project on a PC A who work properly, I aim to take this project and place it on a Pc B with a blank Codesys installed. All seemd to work, the project is created on the PC B, i create my with with online.create_online_application(project.project.active_application) recover my onlineDevice and try onlinedevice.connect() so that i can use create_live_user_management() but then a problem occure on my connect() saying gateway not configured properly. I have setted my set_credentials_for_initial_user(). when i use the Ui, there is absolutely no problem. an other question, is it possible to use the Start and Stop PLC of codesys Control Systray directly in my python script? So that if it detect that it's stopped, then he automatically start it?
Last updated: 2025-09-25

Post by esave on OPC UA Server with on Codesys + OPC UA Client on Labview ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hello everyone I want a communication between my PLC as an OPC UA Server and Labview on my PC as the OPC UA Client. I have an Festo CPX-E-CEC-C1-PN PLC and I have the OPC UA Toolkit from Labview. I created some Variables for testing (see picture 1) on Codesys. I tried to use this Labview block diagram (see picture 2) but I cant connect the PLC to it. What do I have to type in the Server Endpoint URL and what in the Node ID? Is this a good way for communication with a PLC to a PC? If not is there another way?
Last updated: 2024-04-12

Post by adaffern on Runtime on Raspberry pi5 stops after 15 seconds ^{CODESYS Forge talk (Post)}
Hi Guys, I'm new to CODESYS on the pi and I'm struggling to get it working. My issue is that the runtime keeps stopping after approximately 15 seconds. I have installed the runtime package 4.11.0.0 on the pi, trying on both a 64 bit and 32 bit OS. Looking at old forums it all references the 4B and the fact they used 32 bit Debian bullseye (the last version of raspberry pi os) however the pi 5 doesn't offer this version when I try select it in the imager. Has anyone managed to get running using the pi 5? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Adam
Last updated: 2024-06-10

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