Question: Can I establish communication with Siemens’ S7-1200 PLC via M-Prot driver? Solution: Yes. To do so, you must select the protocol ISOTCP (Ethernet) and set the following items: Uncheck…
Question: Can Prodave’s communication baud rate be increased? Solution: According to the driver’s documentation, you can increase its baud rate via Siemens’ software. As for Elipse’s driver, you do not…
This sample application shows how to access some of the variables from Siemens’ S7-200 PLC via M-Prot driver. Note: this application has been developed with Elipse SCADA v2.29 b092. Attachments:…
Question: Can I establish communication with a PLC via M-Prot driver and a Siemens’ USB cable? Solution: No, you can’t. To communicate using a USB cable, you must use either…
Question: How can I establish communication with an S7-200 PLC via PPI? Solution: To establish communication with an S7-200 PLC via PPI, you must use version 2.09 (or higher) of…
Question: How can an S7-200’s VD20 be read via Ethernet with M-Prot driver? Solution: To establish communication with an S7-200 CP243 via Ethernet, you must set Network field as ISOTCP243.…
Question: How can I access a bit from a memory byte from a S7-200 at E3? Solution: To do so, set a tag’s N2 parameter as 108, and its N4…
Question: Can the bit from a digital input be read? Can Bool-type tags be used? Solution: No; this can only be done indirectly. To read/write a single bit, the whole…
Question: Is there a driver to send SMS messages via E3? Solution: Yes, there is. To do so, you can use the driver Siemens M20. If you are not equipped…
Question: What settings are required to establish communication between Omron FINS driver and a PLC? Solution: In the example below, the PLC’s model is CJ1M – CPU13-ETN. This CPU’s model…