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PLCwannabe

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« on: September 05, 2022, 10:42:08 PM »
I just received 2 new BX-P-ECOMEX POMs, and tried to connect to 2 BX-DMIO, with no luck. (I'm using main ethernet for programming, ecomex is on a different subnet,). Though they will pick up the dmios when queried, the plc will not transition to run mode because slaves are offline. Are there any known issues with such a setup?
   
 
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Re: BX-P-ECOMEX issues
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2022, 10:57:45 PM »
I think EXs have to be in the same subnet as the onboard port, but ECOMLTs do not.
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Re: BX-P-ECOMEX issues
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2022, 11:03:49 PM »
I think EXs have to be in the same subnet as the onboard port, but ECOMLTs do not.

Actually they should/must always be on different subnets, otherwise routing doesn't work.
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Re: BX-P-ECOMEX issues
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2022, 11:04:48 PM »
I just received 2 new BX-P-ECOMEX POMs, and tried to connect to 2 BX-DMIO, with no luck. (I'm using main ethernet for programming, ecomex is on a different subnet,). Though they will pick up the dmios when queried, the plc will not transition to run mode because slaves are offline. Are there any known issues with such a setup?

Should be fine. Can you give us more detail (i.e. full network config for onboard, EX, and DMIOs, firmware versions, etc)?
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Re: BX-P-ECOMEX issues
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2022, 11:58:21 PM »
I think EXs have to be in the same subnet as the onboard port, but ECOMLTs do not.

Actually they should/must always be on different subnets, otherwise routing doesn't work.

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Re: BX-P-ECOMEX issues
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2022, 12:09:01 AM »
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Re: BX-P-ECOMEX issues
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2022, 11:55:48 AM »
I don't see anything wrong there. Do you know what version of firmware is in the slave, and can you pull up the Ethernet I/O Monitor and see what error it is reporting?
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Re: BX-P-ECOMEX issues
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2022, 05:13:49 PM »
I've tried it with a couple of different dmios, with different versions, see attached. The I/O monitor is from the 4.1 version.

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Re: BX-P-ECOMEX issues
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2022, 05:21:42 PM »
I've tried it with a couple of different dmios, with different versions, see attached. The I/O monitor is from the 4.1 version.

It's claiming that the slave config doesn't match the actual installed I/O. What is configured for slot 1 and what is installed in slot 1?
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Re: BX-P-ECOMEX issues
« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2022, 08:24:58 PM »
Duh. I forgot to write the new config to the new plc. But the initial plc i was working with at an existing site, I did write the new config multiple times without success. Turns out the issue was the 2.8 OS at that site. As soon as I upgraded to latest  2.9 version it just worked. Thanks.