Hello, im new to this PLC World, im a student currently in an internship, my boss wanted to know if i knew if there is any way to extract data from the PLC to see it in real time or as close as it can, i started to investigate and found OPC UA as an option, the PLC also has Secomea sitemanager but i found it very hard to setup and also kinda impossible to know the id tags of the things we want to see
My problem is:
I found OPC UA as an option and ET-200 CPU or S7-1500 is what we have currently in like 13 assembly lines, i connected succesfully using TIA v18 but when trying to do an "Upload from device" i got several errors, mostly wrong software, i needed TIA V17 and startdrive something something
I got TIA V17 and tried again only to receive the error that
"The consistent fail-safe upload is not enabled for the online device. Either the online device doesn't support fail-safe upload or the appropriate setting in the safety administration editor is not active and downloaded."
Searching i found out that maybe the program its block and i cant do a backup
My plan was to do a Backup of the PLC, modify some settings to setup OPC UA and then load it up to the PLC again
But now that im locked out of that option
Is it possible to enable OPC UA Server on the PLC without deleting the program it already has
My problem is:
I found OPC UA as an option and ET-200 CPU or S7-1500 is what we have currently in like 13 assembly lines, i connected succesfully using TIA v18 but when trying to do an "Upload from device" i got several errors, mostly wrong software, i needed TIA V17 and startdrive something something
I got TIA V17 and tried again only to receive the error that
"The consistent fail-safe upload is not enabled for the online device. Either the online device doesn't support fail-safe upload or the appropriate setting in the safety administration editor is not active and downloaded."
Searching i found out that maybe the program its block and i cant do a backup
My plan was to do a Backup of the PLC, modify some settings to setup OPC UA and then load it up to the PLC again
But now that im locked out of that option
Is it possible to enable OPC UA Server on the PLC without deleting the program it already has