I'm using a 3rd party USB to MPI adapter cable. I can see 157 blocks of various types listed under Accessible Nodes in Simatic Manager. The Upload to PG option is greyed out under the PLC menu. How do I actually get the upload and save it to my PC?
Post a photo of the physical S7-300 rack.
If you manually note down the hardware used, does it all exist in your hardware catalog ?
Is anything connected as DP slaves on the DP port ?
Do you have diagrams that have the hardware addresses of the I/O ?
In worst case, you might get away with manually setting up the hardware and combine with the uploaded software.
Double-click the "Hardware" icon under "Simatic 300(1)" station in Simatic Manager"Excuse my ignorance but how do I open the HW Config?
No. This just updates the hardware catalog in Step 7. Your project is not affected.When you're talking about installing HW updates on the HW Config, I assume this is firmware?
PS: one thing to try, is to open the HW config, then go to Options -> Install HW Updates..., click the Execute button. When it finishes downloading, click the Install button.
The drives are connected to the Profibus network of the 313C-2DP ? If so, use the DP port instead of the MPI port. And set the PC adapter to Profibus and the same baudrate as DP port is set to in the 313C+2DPs HW config.This is using an Amsamotion 6ES7 972-0CB20-0XA0 USB to MPI/DP/PPI NetWork adapter for S7 system, plugged into the X1 MPI port on the PLC. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong? What should the settings be for the "Set PG/PC interface" dialog?