BITS N BYTES
Thank you for the reply,
I had been looking @ that document as well as some others before posting.
Building from scratch and doing all of the needed debugging, I can probably muddle through,
but would take me much longer than somebody else that has done it before.
The Sockets manual mentions how to create needed messages ie. Open Socket, but not much on the needed code in front of the messages, other confusing things are it tells you to create a “Source element” UDT but no mention of radix or size.
I did get the Modbus TCP I/P sockets to work using sample code.
Sockets uses some memory but is cheaper, has a smaller foot print and creates a cleaner build.
Another bonus of working through this is now we do not need to buy expensive Modbus TCP I/P cards for every tool
I have not found a UDP sample code for Compact Logix yet.
Maybe I can take apart the Modbus sample and learn a bit.
It has to be 100% reliable and there may be a learning curve I am trying to avoid.
There is money in the project to pay for help.
Dave