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Many, many thanx JesperMP. I've come to the similar conclusions regarding making pop-up menus but was hoping there is a built in function. You don't know how much you have helped me. I am dealing with Omron mostly and this is a nightmare for me. very, very complicated ways for not so complicated tasks. this is just a touch screen in the end. many thanx again, i will check in with more questions eventually.

Hello, first time I am dealing with siemens. I have multi panel MP277 10'' touch and WinCC standard software. is there a way to use a pop-up screens in my application? I was exploring but haven't found anything. also, if I don't want to use screen navigation how can I setup a button to jump to desired screen number? there is a function ActivateScreenByNumber but it asks me for a tag and I want just to enter a fixed screen number. also, is there a possibility to have pop-up menus, e.g. to have a button Menu which displays pop-up menu with buttons to jump to various screens? many thanx

indeed, plc and ns should be on the same network address unless you setup a routing table or something. also, remove entries from IP address tables, both PLC and NS, no need for them. LAN speed set to be the same on PLC and NS (on NS is 10BASE-T plc auto). Just leave everything default and enter IP addresses. regards

Also, disable com A and com B since it will try to connect to host a or host b hence will display connecting... on the screen. regards

If you have a NT file project it's easy. Does your customer has it? if not, does he have a cable and NT support tool to upload the program from NT? when you get the onw file it's easy to convert it to ns project. regards.

Not sure what you're aiming to precisely. There is a NT somewhere, customer bought an NS terminal, and now you want to give directions to your customer how to do the migration from this working NT to about to install NS? is this the case? first, which NT is installed, which NS has the customer of yours and does he have a software for reading out the NT or does he have a project file for NT? regards

indeed, there is no advanced button od trend graph object. i think trend graph is used for backward compatibility with Sysmac-SCS, and in CX-Sup should be used Data Logger.

i have made it. here is the thing, just as Harald and benbrad suggested. i set up the routing table as: ETN21 which is unit 0 is network 1 (won't let me set 0). port 252 (host link port) is network 2. in CX-D chose PC-PLC-NS as: (1)Comms. method Ethernet, Fins source 1, fins dest 1 node 240, driver 172.25.0.240 (actual IP address of the PLC) (2)Comms. method NT-Link network address 2 unit 0 press download and it works. many thanx to all for help. i have expected no setting will be necessary as with toolbus, but this was no hurt too. downloading is slow but much faster than to running downstars all the time. regards to all

Hi Harald and everyone, It has a lot no. 060602, cpu ver 3.0, etn ver 1.4. a mistake I made before, it's CJ1M-CPU13-ETN but this doesn't change the thing. will try to asign network number to rs232 port, but isn't the whole idea of PC-PLC-NS to avoid setting routing tables and just press download? I did set the max number of unit to 1 in PLC setup of Host link port, since without it NS won't communicate to PLC. is there anyone who had a success with this? just to drive your attention, connection to PLC is ethernet. I have succeded before to do PC-PLC-NS download, when a connection to PLC was to peripherial port, toolbus, without any assigning network numbers etc. any who did manage to download program to ns using PC-(ethernet)-PLC-(NT-Link)-NS ?

heck, still doesn't work. in cx-progremmer i started tools -> network settings, cx-integrator started, go online, chose tools -> start routing table, then in unit 0 (which is my etn21 unit) right click chose insert CPU SIOU and set local network number 1. download to plc. turn off turn on and still the same message appears when download pc-plc-ns . any ideas ?

Not sure I understand, sorry beeqee. can you be more sprecific?

and also disable serial A serial B if you don't have plc's on it. regards

use DBmove commands to position to the desired record in database and then use DBwrite to write data to db (maybe DBupdate too, should check this). regards

Agree with everything beegee said. regarding last remark, can you share with us this instruction? regards

if connect directly laptop to plc (i.e. without ethernet switch) you use cross over cable. If you use ethernet switch the use regular eth cable. In both cases don't forget to set your laptop's IP addres to be the same IP group as the plc i.e. if the plc is 192.168.3.50 and mask is 255 255 255 0 then your laptop has to be 192.168.3.xxx regards

Hey, I will try your way here in the office. Maybe I forgot my way, dang it. Say, put here some manual, example etc. with creating VPN and connect PLC through VPN? thank you man. regards

From CX-Progammer? and you could program the PLC? I tried to connect to plc with IP 192.168.... from PC in our company's domain with IP 172.25....I had router with WAN side 172.25.... and LAN side 192.168..... I had to enter in ETN21 setup in Router Table routing 0.0.0.0 (any request from PLC) to 192.168....(send to router's LAN IP). without this is wouldn't work. also in router's setup I set up forwarding from port 9600 so the cx-programmer from that post can connect. has this a little sense? regards to all

No, since the protocol that ping command uses is not TCP/IP, I was told. so, if you see the PLC with ping command you still need some settings (routing table settings) in order to connect with CX-P. it is all written in Accessing_Omron_PLCs_via_the_Internet.pdf doc. excellent one. regards to all

Sure this is a problem. this whole patch process is a pain. omron should work on it and as I know they've already recognized this problem and they are planning to change the patch process. regards.

Didn't try with older since I have NS12-V1 lot No. 2825 and the usb connection worked AFTER I upgraded the system software with 6.0 (originally it came with version 5 I think). after that I could download the program via usb cable. now in that NS12 is system software 6.61. saying that maybe older models with V1 can be downloaded with system software 6.0 or above so the usb will work? should try it. regards

this is regular Omron programming serial cable. you can use this to program NS, NT, plcs... simple answer OGS and simple is the best!

there is a way to connect with cx-programmer through internet to cj1 with ethernet unit no? i think there is some manual on this site, this topic was discussed before, just some routers needed and some simple settings in etn21 unit. regards.

they will continue developing and I think it should be put to the cx-one in the future. CX-Supervisor is, my opinion, the best SCADA product regarding price/performance on the market. Lots of features, great functionality, very simple to develop an application also. So I hope they will not abolish this great peace of software. regards to all

Kool. I built tons of library objects during this five years of SCADA, NT, NS experience. looking forward.

Yes, I am using CX-D 2.02 also, and transfer settings are not remember in the project. I think it is better to remember this inside the project, like in CX-Programmer. regards