Setup
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The ControlNet Devices configuration consists of the following parameters:
Parameter
Description
Scan Class A, B, C, D
The configurable update rates (in milliseconds) for each Scan Class in the ControlNet
Map.
Device List (per device)
Device Name
The user assigned instance name for the specific device.
CIP Path
The CIP Path to the target device. This can either be entered manually or the user can
browse to them by clicking the
Browse
button. The Target Browser will open and
automatically scan for all available ControlNet devices.
If the ControlNet module is a bridge module, it can be expanded by right-clicking on
the module and selecting the
Scan
option.
The required ControlNet device can then be chosen by selecting it and clicking the
Ok
button, or by double-clicking on the target module.
Timeout
The amount of time (in milliseconds) the module will wait for a response from the
target ControlNet device.
Retry Count
The number of message retries before the target ControlNet device is considered
offline.
Comm Status Offset
This is the offset in the Internal Data Space (used to map ControlNet device data) which
provides the communication status of each ControlNet device. The Communication
Status is as shown below:
Bit 0 - (1:Device Online , 0:Device Offline)
Bit 1 to 7
–
Reserved.
Table 3.5
–
ControlNet Devices - Configuration Parameters
B.
CONTROLNET MAP
This tab is enabled when the ControlNet Mode is set to
ControlNet Originator
.
The ControlNet Map configuration is shown in the figure below. Up to 50 ControlNet mapped
items (unscheduled UCMM messages) can be configured to any of the 10 pre-configured
ControlNet devices. The data from each ControlNet device is written to, or read from, the
Internal Data Space with a size of 100Kbytes. See the
Explicit ControlNet Messaging
section
for more details.
The ControlNet Map configuration window is opened by either double clicking on the module
in the tree or right-clicking the module and selecting
Configuration
.