Panelview plus 7 wont connect to factory talk

[miller20]

can anyone help with trying to connect a panelview plus 7 to a pc i made a ip address for the panel view i ping it from my pc and its seeing it but it wont stay connected in factory talk and it sees it in there also. i attached some photos to the thread.

 

[miller20]

Is it something i have wrong on my PC end? i attached pics of that also

 

[dmroeder]

What IP address did you assign your computer?

Edit: wait, you appeared to assign your computer .21 and the PanelView .21. That won't work. Try assigning your computer .20 instead.

Edit2: The ping replies are coming from your own network adapter, not the PanelView. All Ethernet devices that are to communicate to each other must have unique addresses.

 

[miller20]

ok you are correct but when i change it to 20 then i dont get anything when i ping.

 

[dmroeder]

I would probably remove the gateway address, unless there really is one.

Did you reboot your PanelView after giving it its IP address? That configuration takes place after a reboot.

 

[miller20]

ok so i got it to comuincate from PC to panelview now when i try to download the program file it says, the destination selected is not a valid factory talk view me station destination
please select a valid destination and try again. what in the heck does that mean? why cant anything be easy with programming lol

 

[Ken Roach]

Everyone who has done PLC programming over Ethernet has inadvertently assigned duplicate IP addresses and felt foolish about it for a few seconds.

If you can, post a screenshot of your FactoryTalk View ME Transfer Utility and how you have browsed and selected the PanelView Plus to which you are downloading the *.MER runtime application file.

Usually, "the destination selected is not a valid FactoryTalk View ME Station destination" means that you have inadvertently selected a PLC or other device in your browse, or the PanelView is a newer firmware revision than is recognized by your software.

The PV+ menus should tell you the firmware revision of your PV+ terminal, and of course the Help -> About on FTView Studio will tell you what version and support you have installed.

 

[miller20]

tranfer utility fault picture

This is the fault i keep getting i posted a picture of it on here

 

[dmroeder]

On the panelview, go to terminal settings, network and communication, rslinx enterprise setup (something like that). Restore to default, then try downloading

 

[L33er]

LO, you are breaking my neck!

 

[dmroeder]

LO, you are breaking my neck!

Lol, took me a second

 

[miller20]

lol sorry guys by the way thanks for all this help, so i restored them to factory default but just fyi there was nothing in there

 

[dmroeder]

lol sorry guys by the way thanks for all this help, so i restored them to factory default but just fyi there was nothing in there

Did that then allow you to download?

 

[miller20]

give me just a sec going to try

 

[miller20]

Still wouldnt let me download

i did ping the ip address and i am connected i attached a photo of my transfer utility so you can see if maybe i have something wrong on that. sorry if it comes in side ways lol