I’m trying to connect a Balluff BNI004A to Ignition without a PLC. Is there any way do get data from the connected ports through scripting/non OPC-UA methods? I have a air humidity sensor connected to the I/O block, and I would like a way to get the raw data from the I/O block and either write it to…

Balluff has multiple models. IIRC, some are Modbus TCP, which Ignition can natively poll. There are other brands of IOLink masters with full OPC/UA servers. If it has to be the BNI004A, I’m pretty sure only my module will talk to it. Short of scraping its configuration web page. Not sure if li…

@pturmel has an EIP comms module for such things. https://inductiveautomation.com/moduleshowcase/module/automation-professionals-llc-ethernetip-class-1-communications

See these posts: [image] Complete Newbie, how to add a BNI EIP-508-105-Z015 Ignition The BNI EIP-508-105-Z015 is an IO-LINK master (If I use the terminology correct, remember newbie here) It is on the network and you can grab sensor data by going to address/ports.jsn IO…

Is there any other options than this? Even if it is more involved, I would like to find a way to do this without @pturmel 's module.

The BNI004A module constantly publishes json formatted data on the connected sensors/device. This can by accessed via the master IP address with '/dprop.jsn' at the end. -> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/dprop.jsn. Below is a small code example: jsonString = system.net.httpGet("http://192.168.50.70/dprop.jsn") …

Connecting Balluff BNI004A to Ignition

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pturmel June 23, 2021, 7:26pm 3

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