I’m using super old and horrible OPC-DA to connect to RSLinx (to connect to Studio Emulate 5000), and I’m connected and can browse tags, but they’re all coming up at STALE quality. When I use a 3rd party OPC client, I can read the values no worries.
RSLinx Classic and Ignition are on the same machine.
Any tips?
I managed to get it sorted. I had issues with running RSLinx Classic. I had to kick it in the guts (Australian for ‘restart it’).
However, my setup is actually this:
Rockwell VM: running RSLinx Classic, Logix 5000 Emulate, and Ignition gateway with OPC-UA and OPC-COM modules installed (basically just using to connect locally to OPC-DA to avoid horrid DCOM config and serve up PLC tags to other remote Ignition).
Ignition VM: running full Ignition gateway. This is the Ignition gateway I actually need to be reading the PLC tags.
OK, I know what I’ve been doing wrong. I’m trying to use Ignition as a pass-through OPC-UA server for another Ignition gateway to access tags from, but confused the purpose of a remote tag provider, which is not to create tags locally, but to access them remotely via the gateway network.
I’ve resolved everything by creating an OPC-UA connection to the remote Ignition gateway’s OPC-UA server, dragged all (or most - that took a while…) of the tags from the PLC (via RSLinx - OPC-DA) into the remote Ignition tag browser, and I can now access these tags as I expect, and create new tags within my local Ignition using these tags.
You can also use the OPC COM Tunneller module for this - https://support.inductiveautomation.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/80/0/a-primer-to-the-opc-com-tunneler-module.
Thanks Paul, super handy to know!!