RSLinx putting startup in auto

[George Graziano]

Whenever I startup RSLinx, any connection using USB, even though I put in manual startup, reverts to auto mode. I can manually stop them and put them back in manual and when I shutdown RSLinx, they revert back.

Thanks
George

 

[Mickey]

HMM?, I have never seen that dialog.

I just tried it on my laptop and it works as it should. FYI, RSLinx was not running as a service, if that makes a difference.

When all else fails with RSLinx you might try deleting the harmony files, see text below.

 

[George Graziano]

Mickey,

I'll try that in the morning. I have service turned off. But I will turn off the 6 or so that use the USB port. I put them back in manual and as soon as I stop RSLinx and restart, it puts them all back in run and in Auto.

George

 

[Ken Roach]

Are the drivers being used by an OPC Topic ?

One of the strange things RSLinx does by default is create an OPC Topic with the name of the RSLogix 5/500/5000 controller name. This is supposed to be convenient but might also result in your driver being started when you don't expect it to be.

 

[George Graziano]

Ken,

I don't believe so.

George

 

[OkiePC]

If you open RSLinx GUI and look under the main menu for Topic Configuration, you can see all the topics remembered by RSLinx, and any in use *should* be marked with a padlock icon. I have seen that locked status get stuck on, although the app using it had long since shut down. Only once or twice have I had to delete a topic manually but it has happened. Sometimes, I will blow all the stale ones away just to tidy up when I go in there. Using RSLogix500 Pro definitely creates a topic for every program you open offline or online. Those topics get very active when you run CGMs, big CDMs, trends and other things. I suppose it enhances responsiveness of the RSLogix interface if those DDE topics are pre-configured.

The long list of inactive topics you might find shouldn't cost you any horsepower, but I don't need a topic saved away in some mysterious harmony file for every project I might ever open and glance through.

 

[George Graziano]

I just used Logmein and took a look. I have nothing under active topics.
Under Topic List, the left side is full. I was trying to get data logging working last summer on the test bench. SHould this be empty?

Thanks
George

 

[George Graziano]

I was in service mode even thou I have turned that off before. I also deleted the harmony files. I then restored my drivers. Now, only 3 USB drivers still change from Manual to auto and restart when I open RSlinx. Before about 8 of them would go back into auto mode. Thanks so far for the help.

George