One or two controllers

uffe · December 2010

I have two robotcells each with teir own IRC5 that I want to communicate with from my PC.
Should I use one or to controllers in my program?

Henrik Berlin · December 2010

RobotStudio can connect Online to your real (physical) IRC5 controller (RC) over Ethernet, either over the LAN (requires the RobotWare option PC Interface) or through the service port.

In addition RobotStudio can be used for Offline programming by using one or several virtual controllers (VC) running in your PC.

So, if you want to do Offline programming of your IRC5 controllers (RC) you should create one Virtual Controller (VC) for each RC. I recommend you to try the feature "Go Offline" of the Online tab that will automatically create a matching VC for your RC.

uffe · December 2010

OOps should have explained better.
I have a program on my PC wich is online communicating with two IRC5.
I have a problem that after a IRC has been lost, I get an exception when I triy to logon when it has been found again.
Whats wrong?

private void AddControllerToListView(object sender, NetworkWatcherEventArgs e)
        {
            string tmp;
            int i = 0;
            try
            {
                ControllerInfo controllerInfo = e.Controller;
                ListViewItem item = new ListViewItem(controllerInfo.IPAddress.ToString());
                item.SubItems.Add(controllerInfo.Id);
                item.SubItems.Add(controllerInfo.Availability.ToString());
                item.SubItems.Add(controllerInfo.IsVirtual.ToString());
                item.SubItems.Add(controllerInfo.SystemName);
                item.SubItems.Add(controllerInfo.Version.ToString());
                item.SubItems.Add(controllerInfo.ControllerName);
                this.listView1.Items.Add(item);
                item.Tag = controllerInfo;

                if ( e.Controller.IPAddress.ToString() == "192.168.51.12" )
                {
                    MyGetController_2();
                }
            }
            catch (Exception u)
            {
                tmp = string.Format("ERROR: {0}", u.ToString());
                ErrLog(tmp);
            }
        }

        private void RemoveControllerFrListView(object sender, NetworkWatcherEventArgs e)
        {
            string tmp;
            try
            {
              foreach (ListViewItem item in this.listView1.Items)
                {
                    if ((ControllerInfo)item.Tag == e.Controller)
                    {
                        this.listView1.Items.Remove(item);
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception u)
            {
                tmp = string.Format("ERROR: {0}", u.ToString());
                ErrLog(tmp);
            }
        }

        public bool MyGetController_2( )
        {
            string tmp;
            try
            {
                int i = -1;

                int iNr = listView1.Items.Count;
                for(;;)
                {
                    i++;
                    if ( i >= iNr )
                        break;

                    ListViewItem itemView = listView1.Items;
                    if ( itemView.Tag != null )
                    {
                        if ( itemView.Text == "192.168.51.12" )
                        {
                            ControllerInfo controllerinfo = (ControllerInfo) itemView.Tag;
                            if (controllerinfo.Availability == Availability.Available)
                            {
                                if (this.m_ctrl_2 != null)
                                {
                                    this.m_ctrl_2.Logoff();
                                    this.m_ctrl_2.Dispose();
                                    this.m_ctrl_2 = null;
                                }
                                this.m_ctrl_2 = ControllerFactory.CreateFrom(controllerinfo);
                                this.m_ControllerInfo_2 = controllerinfo;
                                this.m_ctrl_2.Logon(UserInfo.DefaultUser);
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                  SysLog( "MyGetController_2, IP not available" );
                                  return false;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                return false;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                tmp = string.Format("ERROR: {0}", e.ToString());
                ErrLog(tmp);
                return false;
            }
        }

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