I’m trying to connect a Siemens S7‑1200 PLC to Ignition. I have enabled PUT/GET on the PLC and set the access level to Full Access.
On the Ignition side, I created the device connection and entered the PLC’s IP address in the Host Name field. The connection status shows Connected.
However, when I open the Quick Client, I don’t see any PLC tags.
Is there an additional setting or step required to make the tags visible?
Thanks.
Are you using an OPC Connection, or one of the siemens drivers? If one of the drivers, which one?
To use the s7-1200 over opc ua, you will need to set up the tags on the interface in the plc.
And, are you able to map tags in the designer?
The classic Siemens driver does not have browsable tags, you have to enter them manually.
The Enhanced Siemens driver in 8.3 or the OPC-UA direct connection are browsable, but they do not use the PUT/GET system.
Dear Jasmine,
This is the driver I used for the connection. For the hostname, I only entered the PLC’s IP address.
I’ve previously used Kepware OPC with this PLC, and everything worked correctly — the tags were fully browsable.
After researching online, I found that Ignition requires using non‑optimized DBs and mapping I/O values into DB variables before they can be accessed. I attempted this approach, but so far I haven’t had any success.
Thanks
Thanks David,
as I mentioned to @Jasmine_Quick , I have used this driver at gateway.
2 questions:
1- how we can insert them manually? I am not very sure what is the correct format of tag insert to ignition?
2- Also what is the Enhanced driver of Siemens? I did not see anything about it at Gateway to define.
Thanks
In case it isn't clear, the Enhanced Siemens driver is a new feature in Ignition v8.3.
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