I/O Communication Drivers

Introduction

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In this video we are going to describe what a driver is and how it works within the Movicon.NExTâ„¢ ecosystem.

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Notes

General Settings

Listed below are the values that the Status and Command variables can take within the General Settings of the Modbus TCP/IP driver taken as an example:

Bit 0 (ChangeTagsSettings) Command Load:
0 = Default, Tag's list load completed
1 = Force the driver to reload the tag's list from file
Bit 1 (ErrorLoadTagsSettings) Load Result State:
0 = Load Operation Complete
1 = Load Operation Failed

Channel Settings

Listed below are the values that the Status and Command variables can take within the Channel Settings of the Modbus TCP/IP driver taken as an example:

Bit 0: Channel Connection State 0 = Connected
1 = Not Connected
Bit 1: Promary Host State 0 = Active
1 = Inactive
Bit 2: Backup Host State 0 = Active
1 = Inactive
Bit 3: Host in use 0 = Primary
1 = Backup
Bit 4: Switch Command Command to switch host, from primary to backup and vice-versa