Creating GI's over Profinet

Calo878

Hi all,

First, I'm completely new to ABB. Have worked with Fanuc in the past.

I'm trying to create a group input on our ABB Omnicore C30 GoFa, but failed to do so.

I have a bunch of IO: DI's and DO's running over ProfiNet to a S7 1200. These IO seem to work as I can force one and another and see the bits flipping on the other side.

So I suppose the ProfiNet setup is correct.

Now I'm trying to create a group input w/ 4bits with these profinet di's, but I cannot do so.

To do this, I go to (with RobotStudio) Controller => I/O System =>Signal, rightclick and create new signal. I can choose group input and the number of bits, but I am unable to link this to an existing ProfiNet DI.

The "Assigned to device" pulldown menu is empty.

Probably I am missing something, but I have no idea what.

lemster68

I have not worked on Omnicore, but it may be prohibiting the "duplicate" mapping.  For a long time, it was not necessary to have the individual bits mapped, just the bit range in the group input definition.

matti

Hallo, with a IRC5 you have to di like that (in EIO.cfg):

PROFINET_INTERNAL_DEVICE:

      -Name "PN_Internal_Device" -VendorName "ABB Robotics"\
      -ProductName "PROFINET Internal Device"
#

...

EIO_SIGNAL:

...

  -Name "DO_Auto" -SignalType "DO" -Device "PN_Internal_Device"\
      -Label "beide Robi in AutoPos." -DeviceMap "30" -Category "mysafety"\

      -Access "ReadOnly" -Size 1

...

where the device is a ABB Profinet connection to PLC etc.

There should be an entry IP_setting for you PN network in SIO.cfg, see manual for that.

For installation you should use I/O-Engineering in RSO when connected to your controller.

There you should see all your devices connected.

matti