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General Category => Support Questions => Topic started by: doggo on November 18, 2014, 04:03:12 PM

Title: accessing SLC500 addresses from a 1756-DHRIO ethernet bridge connection
Post by: doggo on November 18, 2014, 04:03:12 PM

Is it possible to access (display with the Advanced HMI digitalpanelmeter indicator) any SLC 500 tags with the following RSLinx processor communication path?:

DT-STATION!AB_ETH-1\172.25.45.23\Backplane\0\CH A\4

This is a CLX processor and rack with a DHRIO card that runs out to a DH+ network composed of 10 or so SLC 5/04 racks.

0 is CH A
4 being the DH+ node address of the SLC 5/04 PLC.

Is any of this communication setup supported in AHMI?

Regards,

Doggo

Title: Re: accessing SLC500 addresses from a 1756-DHRIO ethernet bridge connection
Post by: Archie on November 18, 2014, 06:42:55 PM

The Ethernet/IP drivers do not support routing beyond the backplane to a processor. The feature has been looked into and may show up in a future version.

Title: Re: accessing SLC500 addresses from a 1756-DHRIO ethernet bridge connection
Post by: doggo on November 18, 2014, 09:21:27 PM

OK thanks Archie for saving me a lot of testing trying to get that working. I guess the workaround (for now)is to read and copy the data from the DH+ SLC to the CLX PLC first, then read the CLX version from AHMI.

We have multiple DH+ networks set up like this with the majority of our plant's data behind these DH-RIO interfaces- if you ever get the time to add this feature, it would be a great one!