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Hello i am using opc FBs to connect to some opc server, read, write & monitor items. While i am not having issues creating & adding new items to the monitored items list, unfortunately i am not able to delete items from the list. In the demo example shown on codesys store, we don't have any facility to delete monitored items from the list. (Not at least through visu) But their are methods (DeleteMonitoredItem) provided on UaMonitoredItem FB to do this. I tried calling this method but without any...
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Hello, we are trying to use the new OPC UA library example project. In this project, the timestamp which is provided by the OPC server in the LINT or OpcUa_DateTime Later it is converted in to codesys datatype DT using a function DateTimeToDT. In the implementation of this fuunction some EPOCH constants (11644473600) with datatype LINT is used. This is equivalent to Sunday, January 1, 2339 12:00:00 AM. But this function only gives timestamps in seconds. the problem is we want it in milliseconds....
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Hello, I am working on codesys visualizations & trying to solve a problem. I have a Main_Visu(Type is visualization) & a Dialog_Visu(Type is Dialog). I have defined the number of instances of Dialog_Visu as 4 in the settings (As i want to read data from lets say 4 sensors for example). Inside Dialog_Visu i have a table which could be having different values from 4 different sensors. Now i want to see different values from all 4 sensors simultaneously at the same time on the Main_Visu screen(That...
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Hello, I am working on codesys visualizations & trying to solve a problem. I have a Main_Visu(Type is visualization) & a Dialog_Visu(Type is Dialog). I have defined the number of instances of Dialog_Visu as 4 in the settings (As i want to read data from lets say 4 sensors for example). Inside Dialog_Visu i have a table which could be having different values from 4 different sensors. Now i want to see different values from all 4 sensors simultaneously at the same time on the Main_Visu screen(That...
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Hello, Thank you for the response. I guess i have to do it manually in each project. I thought Codesys shopuld automatically identify these things. Anyways, that was my just 1 of the observations. The origonal problem is I cant see all the other tabs like Application etc. And therefore i am not able to download any new applications in SoftPLC. The issue is same with any 3rd party PLC programmble by Codesys. This is the main issue. Hope somebody could help regarding this.
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Hello, I made a clean installation of both the versions of codesys again. But now also i am facing the issues. Only 5 tabs i.e. Communication, Log, PLC Settings, IEC Objects, Information are shown. Other tabs are not shown. Also, somehow when i load / create a new project, the codesys takes all the "dependent libraries" with SP17 versions. I dont know why this happens. Maybe winPLC of SP14 is not at all installed?? I dont see it in the windows services. Please find attached images.
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Hello I am having problems with codesys win Soft PLC. The editor page is not at all available. No tabs/pages are shown in the editor page of codesys win Soft PLC. Also when i right click the codesys win Soft PLC, i cant find the option "Add Device". I dont understand why. Please find attached images for reference. I am repeatedly facing this issue since some days now. I have already installed & re installed whole codesys multiple times to fix the issue. It works ok for some time & then again same...
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Hello, I am working on OPC UA & recently installed SP17 along with the package for OPC UA. Inside the OPC UA package I found an example project for OPC UA Client implementation which makes use of some visualizations. I also had a look at how the different FBs are being called & responses are received in the callback methods. ALso, I found that first we are going into a root node & then based on the root nodes we are browsing the subsequent nodes. (Done in methods BrowseGotoRoot & BrowseNode) However,...
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Hello, I am having problems in Library documentation. I am using codesys version 3.5.14.20 The library documentation is not displayed for the library which i have developed. Also, when i try to save it in compiled format, i get an error box. Please find attached image showing the error. Could anyone help with this error???
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Hello Everyone, I am trying to use codesys SoftPLC as Modbus RTU Master which is supposed to communicate with an actual(physical) slave device. The slave device is connected to COM port of my PC. I created a codesys project with Codesys WinSoftPLC as device(PLC). Also, i added a COM port as Modbus Master in the codesys device tree. Now i want to send read & write requests to slave. What library can i use for Modbus RTU commands?? I saw the ModbusRequest FB in IoDrvModbus Library, but it requires...
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Ok Thankyou for the info. I guess we cant really do type safety of pointers... The second part wont cause much issues. I think i can manage it in my code...
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Hello I have a Interface Method defined with following inputs. VAR_INPUT //receive buffer pbyRxBuffer : POINTER TO BYTE; //size of the receive buffer udiRxBufferSize : UDINT; END_VAR For eg: If i get udiRxBufferSize = 10, then i copy 10 bytes through pointers Now I am relying on udiRxBufferSize for the actual size of buffer. but what if i get a wrong input from user?? He says 10 bytes, but doesnt actually provide the required size. Can i somehow check the size of actual variable which is provided...
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Hello I have a Interface Method defined with following inputs. VAR_INPUT //receive buffer pbyRxBuffer : POINTER TO BYTE; //size of the receive buffer udiRxBufferSize : UDINT; END_VAR For eg: If i get udiRxBufferSize = 10, then i copy 10 bytes through pointers Now I am relying on udiRxBufferSize for the actual size of buffer. but what if i get a wrong input from user?? He says 10 bytes, but doesnt actually provide the required size. Can i somehow check the size of actual variable which is provided...
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Hello I have a Interface Method defined with following inputs. VAR_INPUT //receive buffer pbyRxBuffer : POINTER TO BYTE; //size of the receive buffer udiRxBufferSize : UDINT; END_VAR For eg: If i get udiRxBufferSize = 10, then i copy 10 bytes through pointers Now I am relying on udiRxBufferSize for the actual size of buffer. but what if i get a wrong input from user?? He says 10 bytes, but doesnt actually provide the required size. Can i somehow check the size of actual variable which is provided...
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Hello morberis Thanks for the reply. I was having problems since yesterday. I spent the whole day installing and uninstalling codesys. But finally at the end of the day it started working again.I am not sure though exactly what steps solved the problem. I think I reinstalled the codesys without uninstalling. Basically repair installation. The First time I did this it removed the above program. But since problem was not solved I did a repair installation again. This time the setup installed above...
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When I tried to re – install 3.5.1.4.20, I got following error code…1722 I have attached screenshot…
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Hello, I was using CodeSys 3.5.14.20 until yesterday it worked fine. Today i tried to install 3.5.16.30 & the problem started. I am not able to start CodeSys softPLC. So i uninstalled all versions of CodeSys & deleted all installation folders related to codesys from installation directory. I again made a fresh installation of 3.5.14.20 but the issue is not resolved. I also tried to activate it from windows services but without any success. I get following error code in windows services. error 1075...
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Hello, I was using CodeSys 3.5.14.20 until yesterday it worked fine. Today i tried to install 3.5.26.30 & the problem started. I am not able to start CodeSys softPLC. So i uninstalled all versions of CodeSys & deleted all installation folders related to codesys from installation directory. I again made a fresh installation of 3.5.14.20 but the issue is not resolved. I also tried to activate it from windows services but without any success. I get following error code in windows services. error 1075...
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Hello dFx, Firstly, in the actual data i may get null values also. I need to find some other key value maybe. I didnt understand you properly. How can i handle my array of DUT?? Could you please elaborate a little?
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Hello, I am a library developer & new to CodeSys. I have a very simple question. I have 2 FBs with some input & output parameters. I want to take the output of 1 FB & use it in the 2nd FB. (irrespective of the instance of FB) One way is that maybe i can use GVL. But i dont want to do so as i am making a library & not end application(PLC program) Is their any other way to get data of a 1st FB instance in a 2nd FB?? Maybe using some interfaces?? Could someone post an example??
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Hello h-hermsen Thank you for the reply. However i made a small mistake while posting the question. 1) VAR_IN_OUT is not permissible in DUT objects. I can somehow make it fix as it wont be greater than 64bytes. 2) Secondly, i dont want to use VAR_IN_OUT as it is mandatory for the user to pass a fixed length array as input parameter, which is not possible for the user as he doesnt have that information. I hope now i make it more clear....
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Hello, I am library developer & new to CodeSys OOPs programming. I have a problem where it is required to define variable size arrays & varaible size structure(DUT) objects. As i will get the information of size at runtime only. I want to create something like below. I know the below code doesnt work, but i am just trying to explain what i want to do. TYPE DUT : STRUCT abyReadBuffer : ARRAY[*] OF BYTE;// I dont know the size of this array. It could be maximum of 64bytes but i get this information...
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Thank you very much. The problem is solved.
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Hello, i was working with codesys 3.5.14.20 version to test some projects. I am using demo license of Win PLC. My project was working fine untill recentlly when suddenly Win PLC stopped working. I tried to restart it manually from system tray icon, but without any success. As soon as i click start PLC it starts and then goes to stop mode again. Could anyone help me with this? Feel free to drop comments for any further clarifications.