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Does anyone know what the clock speed of NX1P2 CPU is? I could not find this info anywhere. Cheers!

Is it possible to enumerate all the files in the SD card get their names into a string array? File names will have the format... RUN0001 data.csv RUN0002 data,csv ..... RUN9999 data.csv I want to be able to first find the # of data files (get a count) and load the first ten file names it finds into an array and display those names on the HMI. User then presses a button on HMI and PLC gets the next 10 filenames to displays and so forth. All file names on the card will have the same name format (fixed length file names). Can this be done with Sysmac studio and NX1P2? I did not find any SD function blocks that had this capability. Cheers.    

Is it possible to transfer the Sysmac Studio license (lite version) away from one PC and on to another? I also want to be able to bring it back over to the original PC. Can this be done?

What does this program do? Is it a communication package similar to RSLinx for the Allen-Bradley world? Can this be used with NX1P2 PLC? Does it support DDE or OPC? I don't see any usable options as far as getting data out to a PC (VB.NET, C# etc.) All I see are add drivers, import/export tool and a performance monitor option. Thanks.  

Current Set-up: OMRON NX1P2 MAPLE SYSTEM HMI WINDOWS PC All on a dedicated LAN with access to internet via a cellular modem with a static WAN IP. This network is 100% isolated from any other networks in the office. I can remote desktop into the PC. I do not have Sysmac studio installed on this PC. I can see and control the MAPLE system HMI from this remote desktop connection. Question is, how do I connect directly to the NXIP2 over this internet connection? (Without using remote desktop.) I have port 44818 forwarding set to local LAN IP of NX1P2 in the Modem/Router. In the Rockwell world, I am able to do this by simply setting up a driver in RSLINX with the rempte WAN IP address and the required port forwarding to the local LAN IP of the PLC at the remote location. is there a way to do this with NX1P2?   Cheers.  

Has anyone done this? I want to be able to connect to an NX1P2 PLC from a remote location over an internet connection. If you have, can you share what is required to do this? For the most part at this stage, security is of no concern. NX1P2 is on a dedicated network that is exposed to the internet at the remote location, that no other device at the remote location, has access to.  A hacker can't do much, if any, damage. I want to be able to connect to it from off-site and be able to do online edits. How can I do this or what is required to do this on this OMRON platform? I have done this easily with some other brands of PLC's that are 20+ years old. Stuck on this.

I am not too worried about anyone hacking into this network in this particular scenario. I have isolated this network from the corporate WAN/LAN networks. There is not much damage, if any, a hacker can do to this set up. Are 9610 & 2224 OMRON ports?  This is an experimental set-up. Just wanting direct access to the PLC over the internet. Once that is established, we will implement strict hardware mac-address based security during the next development phase. For now, three collaborators scattered around the globe, trying to connect to this PLC over the internet.   Cheers.

  OMRON's manual description states "Decimal output value is 0 to 100%" for -15000 to +15000 raw counts for a ANALOG out signal -10VDC to +10VDC.Does that mean instrument value of Zero is raw count value of -15000 counts in this case? Or, is Zero is instrument Zero and +15000 = Instrument's high EU? I am unable to attach a pic. (Tried BMP, PNG, and JPEG. none of them are working. Size is only 50KB well below 3.9MB limit.) This is for an Analog output card NX-DA3605 SPEC STATES: -10V to +10V Resolution 1/30000 Omron manual states decimal output value is "0 to 100%" and directly below that is the RAW count shown as -15000 to +15000 implying -15000 count = 0% My instrument 0 = 0VDC and 100% EU = 10VDC. Just trying to figure out OMRON's verbiage. Thanks.      

Str8jCkt, That would be awesome and thank you. My NXIP2 Array will still be say 20 elements. SD Card can have 1000 files; I only want to load 20 file names at a time using the same array. I will send you my email address as soon as I figure out how. Thank you so much. Your help is greatly appreciated. Cheers.  

How do you go about getting your IT department's blessings or your customer's IT group's blessing to put this on to the corporate network and expose it to the internet?

Thanks. I will have a look.

JYG,   Would you happen to have some sample code on how to accomplish this for us newbies in the OMRON ecosystem? That would be awesome. I am looking for how to set this up in the NX1P2 side. I can sort out the other end. Cheers.    

Can someone tell me what is the max SD card size supported by this PLC? Thanks.      

Thank you both.

Q1. Trying to test data logging to the SD card on an NX1P2 CPU in sim mode. Without an SD card or a USB drive on the PC running the SIM, logging always passes. Now that is not good. That is a wrong simulation. Unless, it is simulating saving to an SD card by saving to the hard drive as a temporary file when in sim mode. Now that would be good. Specially if one can actually see that file on the local PC to see data is being logged as intended. Does anyone know if a temp file is actually being created?  If so, what is its location on the local PC?   Q2 Where does Sysmac sim get its date and time value when running in sim mode? PC and SYSMAC clocks are out of sync by more than 4 minutes? Not a serious issue but wondering why there is a difference. One would assume PC clock and the SYSMAC SIM running on that PC to be the same.   Cheers.  

Can new global and or local tags be added while in on-line edit mode? NX1P2 CPU. Thanks.  

I am sorry for misinterpreting your post. As you pointed out, I have failed miserably. Sincere apologies. What the HEX. I will take your advise and go back to programming a DL-06. Cheers!!!

But this is a forum to get help with WHAT WE GOT NOW. No? Oh and by the way, it is Mr. George. All kidding aside, have you looked in to the possibility of a FUNCTION block as the final product that you want with your STRUCTURE? Thank you kindly.

Like i said, If i don't like what the yellow car is offering at this time, I will buy the RED one that has everything I want NOW. Cheers!  

I am not sure what your approach to solving problems is. As for me, when I have this many issues, I do one of two things. 1. Switch my PLC platform. 2. Change my job. But that's just me. Helps keep my blood pressure in check and most importantly, my co-workers will never, ever, ever, ever, have to worry about me one day walking in to work locked and loaded because I couldn't move a DINT to a FLOAT register. In Swahili. But that was in 1990. They may have that technology now. Cheers!

This is not an an issue, but rather an FYI to those like me, that didn't know Sysmac simulation actually simulates writing to an SD card by creating a file in your local PC. I was curious as to how my write to SD card logic worked without any errors. So while in simulation mode and without an SD card installed on my PC, I did a search on my computer for my filename. IT FOUND IT!!! Now I can see all of my file composition errors. YaaaaaaY. Happy days.   File gets created in a folder in root (C:\) drive's OMRON folder under several sub folders. See the full path below.

Thanks. I normally Right-Click on left side of the ladder window to get in to on-line edit/transfer mode. Figured it would be the same for Global Variables page. I figured wrong.

NX1P2 seems to display date in "yyyy-mm-dd" format. Short of doing string manipulation, anyway to get current time in "mm-dd-yyyy" format? Thanks.    

I don't se any options to enable online editing from the "GLOBAL VARIABLES" page. How do you enter On-Line edit mode from this page?   Thanks.

Thank you. I am currently doing something similar to that using a variable with a data type of "Date_AND_TIME". I was trying to avoid doing it this way and was looking to see if there was a way to do it in PLC's hardware configuration. This was for a high speed data logging application and didn't want to waste time composing the date time format at each log interval.  Thanks again Cheers.