[SOLVED] Connecting Studio 5000 Emulator to Ignition

[bmeyers]

Thank you so much. With a combination of your link and the following:

OPC-DA to RSLinx Classic (Emulated PLC)

While doing testing I found a way to use the OPC-DA connection to create a link between 2 computers and read values from an RSLinx topic I had created to an emulated PLC. Note: Because this uses OPC-DA (because RSLinx does not yet support OPC-UA), this will only work on Windows (unless an OPC-DA client has been released for the linux version since last I used Ignition) Pre-requisites: Two computers (or VMs) that can communicate to each other using IP addresses and computer names. A computer …

I was able to get my Emulator setup working on Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit,opc-core-components-redistributables-3.00.107-20180130 installed, Ignition 7.9.10, Studio 23, and Emulator 23.

Tomorrow I'll try a similar setup on Studio 30 and Emulator 30.