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General Category => Support Questions => Topic started by: razm on December 23, 2020, 06:54:53 AM

Title: Change to program mode in Contollogix?
Post by: razm on December 23, 2020, 06:54:53 AM

Is it possible to change the Controllogix PLC state to remote program by code?
Is there an example for that?

Title: Re: Change to program mode in Contollogix?
Post by: Archie on December 23, 2020, 09:49:09 AM

Not since firmware version about 16. They changed the protocol to make it more secure, therefore very difficult to replicate in a driver.

Title: Re: Change to program mode in Contollogix?
Post by: MajorFault on December 23, 2020, 10:53:46 AM

I don't even think there is a way to do it in PLC code via SSV. 

If you want to stop executing code, put a negative preset in a "running" timer.  That will do the trick. :)

Title: Re: Change to program mode in Contollogix?
Post by: dmroeder on December 23, 2020, 03:05:00 PM

I read some release notes in the command line interface tool that suggested after a specific firmware, a full upload of the program is required for the mode to be changed.  So the driver would have to replicate that process in a way that the controller thought it was RSLogix/Studio5000, which would be an order of magnitude beyond the scope of any communication driver like this.