# Siemens S7-200 drivers?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-200-drivers/4778>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 6, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-200-drivers/4778 "2012-07-06T13:56:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![eaolson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@eaolson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/eaolson)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-200-drivers/4778/1 "2012-07-06T13:56:11Z")

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I understand that the Siemens drivers support S7-300, -400 and -1200. Are there any plans to extend that to the S7-200? I have one PLC of that model. Otherwise, it seems like my best bet is to keep a KEPServer instance around and make an OPC connection to that.

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**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:** [July 6, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-200-drivers/4778/2 "2012-07-06T15:14:23Z")

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No plans currently, sorry. They use a different protocol than the 300/400/1200.

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**Author:** ![peter.a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peter.a](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peter.a)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-200-drivers/4778/3 "2019-02-19T00:19:50Z")

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any suggestions on how to connect a S7-200  
TIA

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**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:** [February 19, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-200-drivers/4778/4 "2019-02-19T00:20:37Z")

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Use Kepware or a Siemens OPC server.

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**Author:** ![harigobu.gb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b77776/32.png) [@harigobu.gb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/harigobu.gb)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-200-drivers/4778/5 "2020-10-23T07:32:03Z")

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Hi Kevin, Are there any updates over here, We do have three s7 200 SMART Plc’s. Is it possible to connect with the help of Siemens Drivers came with any recent Ignition stable release 8.0.X

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**Author:** ![chi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@chi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chi)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/siemens-s7-200-drivers/4778/6 "2020-10-23T07:42:31Z")

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Since the S7-200 series ist discontinued for about 10 years now, i would not expect IA to add support.  
There are OPC-UA servers like [TANI](https://www.tanindustrie.de/en/Opc.php) with full support for all Siemens plc models.