moofish2842
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Good afternoon!
For the past several days, I have been trying to set up this Balluff BIS018A RFID head to communicate with a Do-more BRX DM1E-M-D PLC. The PLC Ethernet/IP scanner function only supports explicit messaging and I am having trouble figuring out what messages to send. Here is the manual for the RFID reader. It doesn't say much about connectivity over EtherNet/IP, only showing what to do with the input and output buffers.
I have set up an environment for testing different combinations of class and instance for outgoing messages. I can get responses from things like class 1, instance 1, as they are universally dictated as to what kinds of data they define. However, I can't find out what it takes to send and receive active data from the head. Every combination I have guessed has resulted in an error response and a status code of 5, 8, or 20.
I downloaded the EDS file from the web configurator of the reader. Here is a link to the text of the file. I can't gleam anything that looks obviously helpful. I have tried many class and instance combinations involving 100, 101, 1, 0, 128, and 209.
I found the manual for another Balluff device using Ethernet/IP but the manufacturer-specific objects (chapter 5.9) don't seem to work. The generic ones do however so I know that communication is happening.
I don't really know where to go next for this kind of information except for to the supplier and manufacturer themselves. Does anyone have an idea what I could do?
For the past several days, I have been trying to set up this Balluff BIS018A RFID head to communicate with a Do-more BRX DM1E-M-D PLC. The PLC Ethernet/IP scanner function only supports explicit messaging and I am having trouble figuring out what messages to send. Here is the manual for the RFID reader. It doesn't say much about connectivity over EtherNet/IP, only showing what to do with the input and output buffers.
I have set up an environment for testing different combinations of class and instance for outgoing messages. I can get responses from things like class 1, instance 1, as they are universally dictated as to what kinds of data they define. However, I can't find out what it takes to send and receive active data from the head. Every combination I have guessed has resulted in an error response and a status code of 5, 8, or 20.
I downloaded the EDS file from the web configurator of the reader. Here is a link to the text of the file. I can't gleam anything that looks obviously helpful. I have tried many class and instance combinations involving 100, 101, 1, 0, 128, and 209.
I found the manual for another Balluff device using Ethernet/IP but the manufacturer-specific objects (chapter 5.9) don't seem to work. The generic ones do however so I know that communication is happening.
I don't really know where to go next for this kind of information except for to the supplier and manufacturer themselves. Does anyone have an idea what I could do?