# ToddySoft Connect 1.2.0 — Beckhoff ADS driver for Ignition (now with auto discovery & automated route setup)

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**Category:** 3rd Party Modules\
**Tags:** ignition81, ignition83\
**Created:** [September 11, 2026, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/toddysoft-connect-1-2-0-beckhoff-ads-driver-for-ignition-now-with-auto-discovery-automated-route-setup/117048 "2026-09-11T07:59:38Z")\
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Connecting **[Inductive Automation](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inductive-automation/)** Ignition to a **[Beckhoff Automation](https://www.linkedin.com/company/beckhoff-automation/)** controller used to involve a detour: find the AMS Net ID, type it in, then log into the PLC and register an AMS route before Ignition could talk to it at all.

On **Ignition 8.3** , that detour is gone.

🔍 **Discover Devices** — one click broadcasts on the gateway's own networks and lists the controllers that answer, grouped by device with a row per transport each one offers: plain AMS, Secure ADS, TLS-PSK.  
Pick one and the form fills itself in. It never fills in a password — a broadcast tells you where a device is, not how to authenticate to it.

🩺 **Test Connection** — asks the driver to diagnose the configuration exactly as entered and tells you what's actually wrong, instead of a red cross.

🔐 **Register the AMS route from Ignition** — when the diagnosis is "no route on the controller", the fix is offered right there. Enter the controller's administrator account once; it's used for that single  
call and never stored.

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