I have In-Line Checkweighers that I need to connect to from Mettler Toledo and they have ethernet/IP fieldbus module installed on them. What driver can I use to connect to them? Does anyone have experience connecting to other devices with the same setup or other forums posts or pointers they can provide that might help?
What are the actual model of these? Do you have user manuals?
Phil's driver may work since they have ENIP.
Once upon a time there were Mettler-Toledo drivers for IND-XYZ and SICS-compatible stuff, but it was unofficial and fell out of maintenance. I'm curious though because maybe they're worth trying to resurrect or rewrite.
Model # is CS3600 XE. Do you think a TCP connection would work? I just found this on the spec sheet as well:
In that case, I'd say, the standard Ignition TCP driver. Ethernet/IP is a different protocol. Sorry for the false alarm, Phil.
EDIT: IIRC, those were Raw ASCII over Ethernet, right?
Hopefully it is just TCP, the rep from Mettler Toledo kept using the phrase EtherNet/IP
Looking at the XE manual, it mentions EIP as a fieldbus protocol. Without seeing the actual unit, the EIP interface may be a separate RJ45 connection.