My customer wants to know if their PLC can read the signal strength of a wireless bolt. I assume they want to use Modbus TCP, Ethernet/IP, or some other fieldbus protocol. I know some Ethernet Switches we sell can provide temperature, CPU load, etc via fieldbus but not sure if Bolt can do the same.
Hi Tom,
See the conversation below. I think you would have to do something similar to get the RSSI level.
I feel like the answer in that thread is “Maybe?”
Hi Tom,
Maybe might be a good answer, you can’t poll a modbus register or use another protocol to get the signal. From the PLC you could open a socket connection up and poll for it. I have done this with putty. I think with and AB plc’s you can use a message instruction for this. As someone else followed up it looks like you can use Telnet as well.
Deryck
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