Import I/O Modular Device Profile

[AutomateSHANE]

I tried this method, and it does work, but not for every device. I have a device under my EtherCAT Master is ctrlX I/O Engineering which is configured using MDP (Modular Device Profile). For some reason, when I save the EtherCAT configuration to a file and import that file in ctrlX PLC Engineering, the device is not shown. If I add the device using fixed profile, it works correctly.

[CodeShepherd]

Update: Moved to own topic from this one.

We will check that again.

Could you send us an ctrlX IO Engineering project export as an example?

[AutomateSHANE]

Yes, here is the export file. The devices in question are the Festo modules.

[CodeShepherd]

Thanks a lot and sorry for the confusion but I was talking off a project archive. There also the device descriptions can be included so we can have a better look.

[AutomateSHANE]

Ok, no worries. I think I did not receive a notification of your reply because this was created as a new topic now. Regardless, here is the archive. I am noticing also that the SAFEX-C12 is not appearing in the offline import either.

[CodeShepherd]

I opened your project archive and transmitted data offline like described here (what you already tested). Could you please point out what is missing? On a first look all commissioned data is available.

ctrlX IO Engineering datactrlX PLC Engineering realtime data

[AutomateSHANE]

That's very interesting. My results are not the same. When I try for the offline import in ctrlX PLC Engineering, this is all I see:

The SAFEX_C12 and Festo_ValveBus are not there. This must be a bug, no? I am on V1.18 of both I/O and PLC.

[CodeShepherd]

Should we have a direct meeting to go through the steps and see where something could get lost? Then please send a private message with your contact data.

[CodeShepherd · Accepted solution]

In a meeting we found that in ctrlX PLC Engineering the real time data view needed to be changed from Data Layer to I/O view. Then everything could be imported correctly.

ctrlX PLC Engineering switch real time data to Data Layer view          ctrlX PLC Engineering switch real time data to IO view