A device is added using the node context menu.
The device is user-configured one. Tags can be added manually or by importing from files formed in the development environment Omron CX-Programmer.
By default, a device contains the Failure tag in the Diagnosis group (that tag cannot be deleted). The tag jumps to True if communication with the device fails.
Settings, which concern a controller, are placed in the Protocol settings section.
•Source Network Address – a source network address; the default address is 0, local network (a controller itself). The addresses 1-32 correspond to a remote network Controller Link.
•Source Node Address – a source node address: 0 - inner PC network, 1-255 - remote network. The default value is 254.
•Destination Network Address – a destination network address. That address is used if a controller works as a gateway. The default value is 0, a local network of a controller; 1-127 - remote network.
•Destination Node Address – a controller address. That address is set by the special hardware switch or in the development environment:
•Destination Unit Address – a module address. The default value is 0, CPU. Other values correspond modules connected to a controller.
•Maximal admissible interval between addresses in read request – maximal admissible interval between addresses in one read request. For example, registers 0, 1, 2, 4 and 5 are requested. If the parameter equals 0, two requests are formed to poll the registers (0-2, 4-5). If the parameter is equal to 1 or greater, one request is formed to poll the registers (0-5, and the unused register 3 will be ignored when analyzing the reply). Increasing the parameter decreases number of requests and speeds the poll up but makes the reply frame longer.
•IP Address – IP address of a controller.
•IP Port - UDP port for requests to the controller. The default value is 9600.
•IP Source Port - UDP port for controller responses. The default value is 9600, 0 - dynamic port (automatically selected by the system).
•Byte sequence of a string - the setting needs to be changed if, when reading lines, the letters are mixed up in pairs.