OPC Connection to Siemens

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Hello everyone,

I want to read data from a Siemens S7-1512 PLC using an OPC-UA connection directly to the PLC.

The connection in Ignition is working:

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I can browse inside the server. I can read data like the serial number of the CPU. But I cannot find a way to browse inside the tags...

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Can anyone help?

Thanks.

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Hi @vrautomation,
You should have something like that

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Verify that those two options are enabled in your hardware configuration
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Regards

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We enabled the options you shown but can't find any relevant data in the server.

Can you tell me where to find the data? I feel like I expant everything...

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Make sure you compile and download software/hardware changes. I haven't had much luck making OPC UA configuration changes online.

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We did it. No luck...

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You should see it under here

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Make sure of the following also:

Regards

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Ok we will try this tomorrow.
Thanks a lot :slight_smile: