I/O Driver

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I/O Driver

1.Create a new I/O Driver by right-clicking the Server Objects - Drivers and OPC item, selecting the Insert I/O Driver in option, and then selecting the Tutorial project. Select the .dll file referring to the IEC 870-104 Driver and rename this object to "IEC104".

2.On the IEC870 tab, configure the Protocol option as IEC 870-5-104 SLAVE.

Protocol option

Protocol option

3.On the Slave item of the Properties tab, configure the Command Handling - Handle Mode for Select/Execute commands option with the value handle automatically. This option allows passing all received commands to Tags of a Driver, so that an application does not need to manage responses to an external master system.

Select/Execute Command option

Select/Execute Command option

4.In the Link Layer item of the Properties tab, configure the Fixed Station List option with value "1".

Add Stations option

Add Stations option

5.Select the Setup tab and configure the Physical Layer option as Ethernet and the Timeout option as three seconds (3000 ms).

6.Finally, select the Ethernet tab and enable the Listen for connections on port option, configuring this Driver to listen on port 2404.

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