RMA
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I've got the HMI PC and the laptop I use as PG both attached to the MPI input and I've had problems with them from the word go. Until now I've always been able to wriggle round the problems, because I usually only needed one or the other connected and by downloading a suitable project from whichever system was working I could persuade the other one to work.
Now that we've started testing though, I need both together so that I can run the HMI on the PC and observe program flow and VATs on the laptop. At the moment the HMI PC is running happily connected via its CP5611 card and running at 1.5 Mbit/s. I can try what I like to configure the laptop's interface under "Extras > PG/PC interface settings" but it doesn't want to know. Now, suddenly, I'm getting the message:
"Online: There is an incompatible adapter version or the wrong type of adapter connected."
even though I haven't changed any of the devices in the adapter list! banghead
I'm sure that part of my problem is that NetConfig is not properly setup. I must have read the manuals at least half-a-dozen times, but somehow I still don't fully understand them.
Question 1:
Do I actually NEED to configure the PG in NetConfig or not.
Question 2:
If so, how do I do I configure everything, so that regardless of whether I download from the laptop or the HMI PC, everything will still work (this hasn't been the case up till now).
Question 3:
Somewhere along the line, presumably after a S/W update, an icon labelled "Component Configurator" landed on the desktop. I only get six hits on the Siemens Support pages and they seem mainly to be concerned with OPC / Network use (certainly not MPI). The Help file doesn't help very much either (not unusual!).
Does anybody know how to use the thing and is it worth my while spending time trying to learn how to use it? For example, could it simplify diagnostic work at a later stage.
Further Info.:
In the "Extras > PG/PC interface settings" setup on the HMI PC, the setting is described as being PROFIBUS (active). Since I don't get any similar options for the laptop MPI adapter, is the PROFIBUS reference here to the H/W or to the S/W protocol (which I presume is different to the MPI protocol)?
I want to use the HMI PC on the MPI port because with 21 DP slaves in the final version, some of the HMI screens are chock full with large numbers of update points (running 1280 x 1024, the screen is still fuller than I would ideally want). I don't want competition between the HMI commmunication and the CPU - slave communication and I can also get 12 Mbit/s on the MPI port with the CP5611 (Max 1.5 Mbit/s with the MPI adapter and the laptop).
Now that we've started testing though, I need both together so that I can run the HMI on the PC and observe program flow and VATs on the laptop. At the moment the HMI PC is running happily connected via its CP5611 card and running at 1.5 Mbit/s. I can try what I like to configure the laptop's interface under "Extras > PG/PC interface settings" but it doesn't want to know. Now, suddenly, I'm getting the message:
"Online: There is an incompatible adapter version or the wrong type of adapter connected."
even though I haven't changed any of the devices in the adapter list! banghead
I'm sure that part of my problem is that NetConfig is not properly setup. I must have read the manuals at least half-a-dozen times, but somehow I still don't fully understand them.
Question 1:
Do I actually NEED to configure the PG in NetConfig or not.
Question 2:
If so, how do I do I configure everything, so that regardless of whether I download from the laptop or the HMI PC, everything will still work (this hasn't been the case up till now).
Question 3:
Somewhere along the line, presumably after a S/W update, an icon labelled "Component Configurator" landed on the desktop. I only get six hits on the Siemens Support pages and they seem mainly to be concerned with OPC / Network use (certainly not MPI). The Help file doesn't help very much either (not unusual!).
Does anybody know how to use the thing and is it worth my while spending time trying to learn how to use it? For example, could it simplify diagnostic work at a later stage.
Further Info.:
In the "Extras > PG/PC interface settings" setup on the HMI PC, the setting is described as being PROFIBUS (active). Since I don't get any similar options for the laptop MPI adapter, is the PROFIBUS reference here to the H/W or to the S/W protocol (which I presume is different to the MPI protocol)?
I want to use the HMI PC on the MPI port because with 21 DP slaves in the final version, some of the HMI screens are chock full with large numbers of update points (running 1280 x 1024, the screen is still fuller than I would ideally want). I don't want competition between the HMI commmunication and the CPU - slave communication and I can also get 12 Mbit/s on the MPI port with the CP5611 (Max 1.5 Mbit/s with the MPI adapter and the laptop).
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