Communicate Emulators 500 and 5000

Hello all,

I am trying to set up a simulation environment. I have successfully set my RSLogix 5000 online with Emulator 5000 and my RSLogix 500 with my Emulator 500.

Now I would need to be able to message from one to the other. Is this possible? I intuitively think it has to do with setting an OPC topic on RSLinx, so I created one that points to the Emu500, but how do I read the tags from RS5000?

Thanks in advance for your help!

You could theoretically set up an "OPC Mirror" that reads from one Emulator and writes to the other Emulator.

Or you could connect them using MSG instructions and emulated serial ports on both Emulators.

In my opinion, communications simulation and troubleshooting for a PLC-based control system should *always* be done with actual hardware. The hardware layer and system resources of an emulator are never going to reveal problems in real hardware and real systems.