KB-36113: Using the same driver with Elipse SCADA and E3.
Question: Can I use a driver from Elipse SCADA with E3, and vice-versa? Solution: Yes, you can, because the supervisory being used does not interfere with driver’s usage.
Question: Can I use a driver from Elipse SCADA with E3, and vice-versa? Solution: Yes, you can, because the supervisory being used does not interfere with driver’s usage.
Question: How can I generate daily logs for Elipse’s drivers? Solution: With drivers using IOKit (version 1.10 or higher), just locate the log’s name (at Log to File: on Logging…
Question: How can I disable the message Abort in Error of the driver at Elipse SCADA? Solution: To do so, select the driver at the Organizer and uncheck the option…
Question: How many licenses are needed to communicate with a network with five PLCs via Ethernet? Solution:To do so, you will need one license per driver object in the application,…
Question: Is it possible to establish communication with Siemens’ PLC S7-300 by using Siemens’ “softnet” software? Solution: Yes, it is possible. The “softnet” software works as an OPC server, and…
Question: How can I use the driver to visualize the communication status? Solution: In the driver’s folder, there is an icon called TagBrowser. This object has several I/O drivers from…
Question: How does Driver starts in listen mode option behave when enabled? Solution: Listen Mode happens when the driver is able to ‘listen’ to the connection of another master/slave. The…
Question: Can I use two PLCs working in redundancy with the same driver? Solution: Yes. To do so, you must enable the option BackUpAddress on IOKit’s Ethernet tab, and insert…
Question: Can I export a driver’s I/O tags to a list in Excel format? Solution: Yes, you can. To do so, you must right-click the driver object and choose the…
Question: Can I access IOKit‘s options via application? Solution: Yes, you can. In E3 Studio, when the driver is open, you will just have to access the option Tag Browser.…