# Siemens Driver support for S7 1500 PLC **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [September 5, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-driver-support-for-s7-1500-plc/7197 "2013-09-05T15:04:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RRNut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@RRNut](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/RRNut)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-driver-support-for-s7-1500-plc/7197/1 "2013-09-05T15:04:17Z")
Does the Siemens driver support the new S7 1500 PLC? I’m assuming there isn’t a substantial difference between the 1200 and the new 1500 series PLC but your official documentation does not list the 1500 series. Is there a tentative date of when IA will support the 1500? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-driver-support-for-s7-1500-plc/7197/2 "2013-09-05T15:27:09Z")
I thought I heard someone report that it does work. Have you tried just using the 1200 driver against it? If it doesn’t work unfortunately there’s not even a tentative date to work on it. It’s basically not on the radar at all right now. ---
**Author:** ![craigb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@craigb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/craigb)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-driver-support-for-s7-1500-plc/7197/3 "2013-10-17T19:42:19Z")
1500 PLC does indeed with with 1200 Settings. ---
**Author:** ![Malcolm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/malcolm/32/5970_2.png) [@Malcolm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Malcolm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2013, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-driver-support-for-s7-1500-plc/7197/4 "2013-10-27T09:08:25Z")
Hi Be aware the S7-1200 and S7-1500 have 2 methods of defining data blocks if they are defined as ‘symbolic’ the Datablocks do not have a Datablock/Dataword absolute address therefore may not be able to be read using normal addressing method.