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Hi, The user of a ctrlX CORE setup with Ethernet/IP scanner has reported a situation of lost IP address. The IO device connected via eth1 (using Ethernet/IP) reported no communications, Ethernet and EthernetIP scanner devices show "Not Running". The user traced the issue to eth1 had lost the IP address settings configured during commissioning. No obvious diagnostics to highlight the issue other than "Not Running" message. Is this a known issue? For reference this is the same machine from the follow issue. Link  ... View more

Experiencing an issue when power cycling a machine. Ethernet/IP Scanner is used to connect to a vision system. When configured in the project and downloaded, the project run's correctly, however everything the system is power cycled the vision system is no longer running. To resolve the issue, the vision system is physically disconnected from the CORE IO and reconnected and after some moments the whole system is healthy again. Info: Ethernet-IP-Scanner V 4.2.0.0 image1: shows the vision system not running after power cycle Image2: shows the state of the E/IP Scanner while vision system not running Image3: the PLC log after vision system disconnected and reconnected pyhsically    ... View more

I'm currently testing the possibility of enabling/disabling EtherCat Slaves within PLC applicaton. The functionality of enable/disable slave and reconfigure the bus seems to be available via CAA device Diagnostic library. I've built a test program using the CodeSys provided example as a starter for 10 Link. However I have the following issues. No PLC/Master node is ever found I cannot find the EtherCat IEC Object variable for my slave device. My project can be provided on request. ... View more