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RE: Using Modbus on Studio5000 - Socket Read Message Error

Posted By Powell Oct 07, 2025 07:38:08 AM
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Hello Manifold, I am looking at the column to the left of the IP address column. I assume this is an encoded timestamp. If that is the case, I believe you may be suffering from an issue I came across before with the Modbus-TCP socket AOI. The transactions are not scheduled as expected. If you make ...

RE: Can Logix Echo Do ....

Posted By Powell Oct 06, 2025 10:45:06 AM
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Thanks for the understanding, Michael. I certainly appreciate your position. I actually understand it better now than when I had written that draft, so the below is not exactly that. Here is what I suggest. 1 Focus on the controllers with bugs that need to be addressed in 26. You can manually manipulate ...

RE: Can Logix Echo Do ....

Posted By Powell Oct 06, 2025 07:21:20 AM
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Hi Michael, Thanks to a rambunctious kitten, I just lost a reply that took 45 minutes to draft. Anyway - there are at least 3 different approaches you can take to test your communications. If you need to test entire systems thoroughly with minimal modification, you would be better off buying the actual ...

RE: 21 CFR part 11 in Ft view SE

Posted By Powell Sep 17, 2025 06:53:01 AM
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This is quite concerning, but you left out a few details. 1 - Which operating system(s) and version(s) are you running? 2 - Is it a distributed system? 2a - If so, how are the components arranged? 3 - Is the system air-gapped or otherwise prevented from receiving automatic windows updates. ...

RE: FactoryTalk View SE 15.00: navigation menu can not be export or restored in new project

Posted By Powell Sep 12, 2025 06:45:00 AM
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Hi Amol, I have been asking for a way to export / import menu structure components for about a year. I doubt it is coming anytime soon. It is a shame because it is a highly useful feature and will be more so if they get t to work with security. I posted something here about it. At the time I was working ...

RE: FactoryTalk View SE - Locking graphics that are being edited on Network Distributed or Network Station?

Posted By Powell Apr 21, 2025 09:10:00 AM
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Ben, I will usually duplicate the file with the extension "_old_yymmdd". In extreme cases, I add the time - military format of course. This becomes the backup, and the original file is still the active one - otherwise you need to find and modify all references to the file. In a multi-dev environment, ...

RE: Transfer Rail - Mounted Stacker Crane

Posted By Powell Mar 24, 2025 06:50:00 AM
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I do not have advice on your bug because we don't have emulate3d, but I do suggest you repost using the software at issue as the subject. You may get more views.

FTVSE 14 Clients shutting down gracefully on their own

Posted By Powell Mar 20, 2025 07:33:00 AM
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Has anyone else had a problem with FactoryTalk View Site Edition Clients shutting down on their own - like within a time frame of being started up? I am experiencing this with a new application on an air-gapped system. There is one other application running on the same VM without issue, so I suspect ...

RE: Interface with Plant PAx

Posted By Powell Mar 10, 2025 07:27:00 AM
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The embedded instructions are Rockwell's direction moving forward with PlantPAx. Upgrading the processor to one of the process controllers is my only suggestion for compatibility if conversion of core programming is off the table - at least for now. If conversion may be possible in the near future, make ...

RE: 28th Feb 2025 - FTView error Unable to Login FactoryTalk Security

Posted By Powell Mar 05, 2025 05:38:00 AM
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This affected a startup at one of our clients. System was running an older application on FTSP 6.40 without issue for months. We were gradually migrating HMIs to a new application when the bug hit, so naturally, we thought it was a problem with the new application. Contacted RA support that day and they ...

RE: Logix Firmware 36 Basic instruction mnemonic changes

Posted By Powell Jan 20, 2025 09:54:00 AM
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I agree with the move 100%. It has been a long time coming. I just wish they handled communication of this particular change a bit better. It is a significant change. But thanks for your insight for others.

RE: Logix Firmware 36 Basic instruction mnemonic changes

Posted By Powell Jan 17, 2025 10:24:00 AM
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It makes a difference because if you try to import code into version 35 that was written in 36, it will fail until you search and replace the mnemonics in the import file. This may not be an issue for you. It is for me and anyone else who needs to develop in echo.

RE: Logix Firmware 36 Basic instruction mnemonic changes

Posted By Powell Jan 17, 2025 10:02:00 AM
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It makes a huge difference if you are importing and exporting code between different versions.

RE: Logix Firmware 36 Basic instruction mnemonic changes

Posted By Powell Jan 16, 2025 10:21:00 AM
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Thanks again, There is a technote in knowledgebase that shows how to do the search and replace using notepad++. I haven't tried it yet, but it is certainly preferable to individual search and replaces. I've been doing this for 30 years and never heard of notepad ++ until now. The new V36 instruction ...

RE: Logix Firmware 36 Basic instruction mnemonic changes

Posted By Powell Jan 16, 2025 10:08:00 AM
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Thanks Fox, I thought I had checked the knowledgebase first, but I guess not. I normally would check the release notes before using any new firmware, but long story short, this was for testing purposes, and it was the only firmware for CompactLogix controllers supported by echo. It would have been ...

Logix Firmware 36 Basic instruction mnemonic changes

Posted By Powell Jan 16, 2025 08:39:00 AM
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Team, Can someone please explain to me why Rockwell would change mnemonics for basic instructions in firmware 36? I tried reaching out to my inside guy, but he has since retired and I wonder if this may have something to do with it. What could possibly be the justification? changing MOV to MOVE, ...

RE: Problem with FTView SE v.14

Posted By Powell Dec 20, 2024 06:51:00 AM
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Hello, Resources do not appear to be an issue for you. I would have made more resources available to the HMI servers than to the directory, but regardless, it is not the cause of your issue. I can tell you that I have seen the error messages on one client in a system using version 14. That client ...

RE: How to rename a folder in Displays? FTV SE v14

Posted By Powell Dec 06, 2024 06:44:00 AM
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Hi, This is my understanding as well. This is not directly related to the topic but other features added to version 14 such as the menu structure are similarly limited. It is not possible to copy structure of either to another project. If one develops a project with these features on one machine, ...

RE: #PlantPAx Configuration Tools alarm setup

Posted By Powell Sep 11, 2024 07:47:00 AM
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Let me preface this by saying I have only done this a few times in Plant PAx 4.6 This really is the only practical tool for creating the alarm export file - to my knowledge. I have had relatively good success with that tool - as well as the tag export tool for the same version. However, I did have ...

RE: FTView SE AE history

Posted By Powell Aug 30, 2024 02:54:00 PM
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I experienced a similar issue. You may find the following helpful. Configure the Windows Firewall to allow SQL Server access - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn On the server side, I allowed ports 1433 and 1434 for both TCP and UDP. I also allowed the entire SQL Server Express instance of sqlservr.exe ...