Do Allen Bradley can read tags in a Flexy directly by EternetIP?

Ewon Support Ewon Flexy
#1

Hi,
a customer wants to read data in Flexy by a Allen Bradley PLC.
The Flexy can to be a eternetIP server ?
If not, I suppose that the Flexy need to be a client eternetIP and the solution is to push the data to the PLC by a write command with a script ?
Do you have the simple command by BASIC script to do this ?

For ABLOGIX IOServer, normaly is it always IP,1,0 ?
And simply, if we have a tag ‘TEST’, the adress will be ‘PROGRAM:MainProgram.TEST’ or ‘MainProgram.TEST’ , I am not sure with the document.

Thank you,
Rémi

Flexy and Beijer HMI
#2

Hello,

The Flexy can only read data using Ethernet/IP. If you want t read data off of it you can enable the modbus TCP slave on it and assign tags to modbus registers. This could then be read by a plc. You are correct you can set up the Flexy with the ABlogix IOserver and write to tags in the PLC. In scripting you would just write to the tag in scripting. See section 2.7 of the programing guide for direct tag name access.

Yes the AB devices are just about always IP,1,0 . It would be the “PROGRAM:MainProgram.TEST” option

Deryck