rta53
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I'm hoping Ken Roach will see this post because he has worked with these issues.
Ken and others,
I saw your post on the RSView ME forum addressing the issue of using OPC and RSLinx 2.4 with RSView Machine Edition. For better or worse I have recently jumped into using PanelView Plus and ME. I tried to connect to a SLC 5/05 using the RSLinx 2.4 OPC server. The ME manual plainly describes how to do this and I assumed it would work. I can browse the tags in the processor but when I try to do just one numeric display and do a test run all I get is stars on the display and the program freezes for a long time. I usually end up having to stop the program and reboot. If I use a direct connection using RSLinx Enterprise it works fine. The first time I called RS tech support the technician I spoke with said I should be able to do OPC with no problem. He told me to reboot first before I tried it and give him a call back if it did not work. Well when I called back I did not get the same support person and the second support person I spoke with seemed much less sure OPC would work with ME 3.1. My local Rockwell distributor said he had never done OPC with ME so he really couldn't help me. RS tech support was supposed to call me back and give me an answer about this but they never did. I called them again and spoke with a 3rd support person who told me maybe the 2nd guy was still trying to get an answer for me. Rockwell is usually pretty good with their support and the cost is not cheap, but I am somewhat dissapointed with them about this issue.
Ken and others,
I saw your post on the RSView ME forum addressing the issue of using OPC and RSLinx 2.4 with RSView Machine Edition. For better or worse I have recently jumped into using PanelView Plus and ME. I tried to connect to a SLC 5/05 using the RSLinx 2.4 OPC server. The ME manual plainly describes how to do this and I assumed it would work. I can browse the tags in the processor but when I try to do just one numeric display and do a test run all I get is stars on the display and the program freezes for a long time. I usually end up having to stop the program and reboot. If I use a direct connection using RSLinx Enterprise it works fine. The first time I called RS tech support the technician I spoke with said I should be able to do OPC with no problem. He told me to reboot first before I tried it and give him a call back if it did not work. Well when I called back I did not get the same support person and the second support person I spoke with seemed much less sure OPC would work with ME 3.1. My local Rockwell distributor said he had never done OPC with ME so he really couldn't help me. RS tech support was supposed to call me back and give me an answer about this but they never did. I called them again and spoke with a 3rd support person who told me maybe the 2nd guy was still trying to get an answer for me. Rockwell is usually pretty good with their support and the cost is not cheap, but I am somewhat dissapointed with them about this issue.