# More issues with Emulate connectivity **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [July 6, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547 "2021-07-06T19:23:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pdixon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pdixon/32/6899_2.png) [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/1 "2021-07-06T19:23:47Z")
I know this is not the first time this topic has come up, but I cannot get Ignition device connectivity to an Emulate slot. I have done this successfully on other machines, but on this VM I cannot get out of ReconnectWait status. Does anybody see anything in the attached config that is wrong? I replaced “localhost” with the IP address in the Hostname and it doesn’t fix it. OPC Quick Client also does not see the device. ![ig_emulate_device_2021-07-06 at 2.15.19 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/0/e0c7b8e3cd3b735058d261d718134bec38d53308.jpeg) ![ig_emulate_device_2021-07-06 at 2.17.17 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/a/7ad4af1807a421baa08f40907bdeb20bddfcd83c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Paullys50](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paullys50/32/3324_2.png) [@Paullys50](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Paullys50)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/2 "2021-07-07T00:23:08Z")
You need to use the OPC-COM driver and connect to the OPC topic you setup in RSLinx. Have a read. > **[Setting up and troubleshooting OPC-COM connections](https://support.inductiveautomation.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047134152-Setting-up-and-troubleshooting-OPC-COM-connections)** > >   > > ImportantClassic OPC is based on COM, which is a technology in Microsoft Windows. Therefore, the information in this section only applies to Ignition gateways installed on Windows. For other ope... ---
**Author:** ![Paullys50](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paullys50/32/3324_2.png) [@Paullys50](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Paullys50)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/3 "2021-07-07T00:25:11Z")
Also, you might be able to use FactoryTalk Linx and make an OPC-UA connection since that is a OPC-UA server. I have not tried it, but maybe someone on the forums has. ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/4 "2021-07-07T01:51:59Z")
> [@Paullys50](#): > > You need to use the OPC-COM driver and connect to the OPC topic you setup in RSLinx. Have a read. Not necessarily, see this post, [Connecting to Allen Bradley simulated plc](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-allen-bradley-simulated-plc/45930). @pdixon saw that post, he was the last to respond. I'm not sure why it's not working for you. ---
**Author:** ![Paullys50](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paullys50/32/3324_2.png) [@Paullys50](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Paullys50)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/5 "2021-07-07T02:41:08Z")
> [@jlandwerlen](#): > > Not necessarily, see this post, [Connecting to Allen Bradley simulated plc](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-allen-bradley-simulated-plc/45930). Well, this is news to me. Just tried it, worked. Sorry OP, I've got nothing...I'll see myself out. ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/6 "2021-07-08T21:19:58Z")
I just noticed today @Travis.Cox made a L5K parser, I think it’s been out for a while though. Download here: > **[Ignition Exchange](https://inductiveautomation.com/exchange/2114/versions)** > > Discover, share, and download community made Ignition resources in collaboration with your organization or the Ignition community. Not a fix to your issue necessarily, but a way to test nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/7 "2021-07-08T22:54:18Z")
You can also dump your Logix project into my Ethernet/IP module if you don't need emulation of the ladder logic. > [@AB PLC tag import/export](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ab-plc-tag-import-export/33050/4): > > Start in your gateway’s configuration section, under the OPC Server’s “Device Connections” and click on “Create new Device…”: Select the Ethernet/IP Class1 Host Device: Give it a name and serial number… … and a slot number and listening address (required for external access) then “Create”: Then, in the list of devices, pick the new device’s “More” button, and select “Co… ---
**Author:** ![pdixon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pdixon/32/6899_2.png) [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/8 "2021-07-09T10:18:46Z")
Thanks Phil, but I need emulation; I need the logic to run and operate ---
**Author:** ![pdixon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pdixon/32/6899_2.png) [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/9 "2021-07-09T10:23:23Z")
For an example, this is another VM that I have. Everything works. I don’t see any difference between the 2 VMs or my configuration. This shows the device configuration for SheetTest, which I am using to connect to a slot in Emulate. I am using Flintium objects configured for the SheetTest OPC device ![ig_emulate_sheettest_2021-07-09 at 5.14.51 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/6/969bc09cd22734e643252d01789167684e9b2425.jpeg) This shows that I successfully connect ![ig_emulate_sheettest_2021-07-09 at 5.11.54 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/2/12fc16431b3730dfb9f23f5e43f7a6a2eb8c74a4.jpeg) This shows what it looks like in runtime. My Ignition application is able to connect the Flintium object and faceplate to the running logic in Logix. ![ig_emulate_sheettest_2021-07-09 at 5.15.20 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/7/977e99411e9e789298685adab99cba131d97c3f7.jpeg) I am now trying to do the same thing in another Win10 VM. I cannot get the device to connect to my Emulate slot. ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/10 "2021-07-09T13:42:09Z")
> [@pdixon](#): > > For an example, this is another VM that I have. Everything works. I don't see any difference between the 2 VMs or my configuration. Ah, more important info. If you have one VM working, and the other isn't, that's obvious to me that there is something different between the two of them. Screenshots really aren't going to help much. ---
**Author:** ![pdixon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pdixon/32/6899_2.png) [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/11 "2021-07-10T21:54:42Z")
We narrowed it down. We setup trace level logging and found a connection refused: io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AnnotatedConnectException: Connection refused: no further information: /192.168.148.4:44818 java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further information ![ig_emulate_sheettest_2021-07-10 at 5.49.02 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/5/353585f572c780a7ab33f87d5a6eb058aa67cde8.jpeg) I assume this is a security level thing in Linx, but not sure where ![ig_emulate_sheettest_2021-07-09 at 4.24.51 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/4/04397c7e10055721c6877df2e0a26faeeae3f847.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/12 "2021-07-10T21:56:45Z")
Port 44818 is the Ethernet/IP port, not an OPC/UA port. Are you using the Logix driver (Ethernet/IP) or are you creating a separate OPC/UA connection? If the former, have you told RSLinx to bind the local Ethernet/IP port? ---
**Author:** ![pdixon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pdixon/32/6899_2.png) [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/13 "2021-07-18T18:02:51Z")
Logix driver. It is a connection refused issue, which implies security (see above). I have never had to bind an ethernet port in Lix to make it work; other VMs work without having to do anything special in Linx. The Linx Gateway configuration (see screenshot above) looks correct ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/14 "2021-07-18T20:24:23Z")
Can’t you just use the other working VM? ---
**Author:** ![pdixon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pdixon/32/6899_2.png) [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/15 "2021-07-19T00:02:19Z")
No. The whole point is to get this working on the VM with the Rockwell licenses that are authorized on this VM ---
**Author:** ![pdixon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pdixon/32/6899_2.png) [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/16 "2021-10-11T15:25:36Z")
It has been a while, but this is still an issue. It looks more like an Ignition configuration issue. Notice in the attached image I have 2 test clients successfully connected to a tag in the emulator, but Ignition still cannot connect. If the problem was on the Rockwell side, neither OPC test client would be able to connect. The fact that OPC test clients can connect but Ignition cannot suggests there is an Ignition configuration problem ![ig_emulate_sheettest_2021-10-11 at 10.01.00 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/6/c6e6c91e839882a15e8fa446d24331f3a95bfe66.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/17 "2021-10-11T15:27:11Z")
> [@pdixon](#): > > The fact that OPC test clients can connect but Ignition cannot suggests there is an Ignition configuration problem Only if you consider the configuration problem to be that you're using an EtherNet/IP driver connection from Ignition and an OPC (Classic?) connection from those clients... entirely different methods of connecting. ---
**Author:** ![pdixon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pdixon/32/6899_2.png) [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/18 "2021-10-11T15:38:02Z")
Thanks for the reply. What I don’t understand is how it works on my other VM, as shown on Jul 9. I don’t see any difference in the Ignition config ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/19 "2021-10-11T15:42:45Z")
Sorry, I've never tried to set up a direct connection to an emulated PLC using the driver, so I don't have any helpful suggestions. Last time I looked at this it wasn't possible. Your error from the 10th is a pretty standard networking error. Usually either firewall or the other end simply isn't listening or accepting connections on that port. > [@pdixon](#): > > io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AnnotatedConnectException: Connection refused: no further information: /192.168.148.4:44818 > java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: no further information ---
**Author:** ![pdixon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pdixon/32/6899_2.png) [@pdixon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pdixon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547/20 "2021-10-11T15:43:08Z")
What is the recommended method for connecting to Emulate? I have always used this method, but the VM that I currently have licensed is not working. If there is another method for connecting to Emulate, is it documented? [Next page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/more-issues-with-emulate-connectivity/48547.md?page=2)