how do I map the tags in a Weidmuller 1334950000 UC20-WL2000-AC from my Ignition Designer Tag Browser?
I've tried several things and although I do see some tags, none of the tags from the I/O modules seem to populate.
I am new to Ignition, BTW.
Also, I am using a CODESYS app running in my Weidmuller UC20-WL2000-AC. I do see some system tags after I created a connection to the Weidmuller which seems to be working fine. Its basically the I/O modules attached to the controller that I cannot see from Ignition Tag browser.
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for your reply.
So, I used the gateway to connect (Using OPC UA connections) and created a TCP Driver connection. Connected via Ethernet to the default static IP address and used port 502 on the Weidmuller Controller (both to default values per documentation).
After creating it I got the following status:
(something that caught my eye was the "0/1 Connected:" message as if there's no connection at all (??))
When I used the Ignition quick Client, and browsed into Devices in the Ignition OPC UA Server => Devices, I got the following (apparently I do have some tags available):
Then in the Ignition Designer (in my Vision Project) I did get to see the device and actually also get some tag values for some system tags in the Tag browser like so:
The TCP driver is not suitable for this. It's not suitable for most things - it's mainly for connecting to barcode scanners and scales, or other things that just spit out regular ASCII data.
Do you have a user manual or documentation for this device? You need to figure out if it supports OPC UA or some other protocol Ignition has a driver for.
OPC UA would be best if you can get it working. You'll get full tag browsing that way.
Modbus TCP will work if not, but that requires manually creating and addressing tags in Ignition, because there is no such thing as "tags" or "browsing" in the Modbus protocol.
I'm not entirely sure the NodeRed stuff is even necessary. I saw one video where the web UI on this thing made it super easy to enable the OPC UA server. Not sure if it was the same model or what.
