Communication Settings

Introduction

This tab allows you to manage the connection from the PC to the controller:

  • Helping you find a controller in a network.

  • Presenting the list of controllers, so you can connect to the selected controller and manage the application inside the controller.

  • Helping you physically identify the controller from the device editor.

  • Helping you change the communication settings of the controller.

You can change the display mode of the Communication Settings tab:

Edit Communication Settings

In Controller selection mode, the Edit communication settings window lets you change the Ethernet communication settings. To do so, click Communication Settings tab. The list of controllers available in the network appears. Select and right-click the required row and click Edit communication settings ... in the contextual menu.

You can configure the Ethernet settings in the Edit communication settings window in 2 ways:

  • Without the Save settings permanently option:

    Configure the communication parameters and click OK. These settings are immediately taken into account and are not kept if the controller is reset. For the next resets, the communication parameters configured into the application are taken into account.

  • With the Save settings permanently option:

    You can also activate the Save settings permanently option before you click OK. Once this option is activated, the Ethernet parameters configured here are always taken into account on reset instead of the Ethernet parameters configured into the EcoStruxure Machine Expert application.

For more information on the Communication Settings view of the device editor, refer to the EcoStruxure Machine Expert Programming Guide.