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I'm trying to communicate our Bosch-Rexroth MLD controller to a T7A through ethernet ip but the driver only has a serial connection option. Is there another driver I can use??

No, there is not another driver you can use.

I used the CoDeSys driver over ethernet TCP/IP and that worked out.
Thanks anyway.

That surprises me because that would mean that the Bosch-Rexroth MLD supports the Codesys ARTI protocol.

mark.monroe wrote:That surprises me because that would mean that the Bosch-Rexroth MLD supports the Codesys ARTI protocol.

Bosch-Rexroth uses CoDeSys 3* for the plc functionality on many of their products. While I don't use, or generally have access to the product line, I was at a customer site recently Diagnosing PROFINET IO Controller issues between customers MLC65 and a PROFINET Communications Card for a VFD from one of our Vendors. While on site I had an oportunity to use the software on a rolling test bench they provided and noted that the PLC programming side was definitely CoDeSys 3.

On a side note another of our Vendors (WAGO) also uses CoDeSys (v2 though) to implement the PLC functionality and IDE. The ARTI driver works quite well on it and only requires you enable symbol download, and setup the CoDeSys variables you want exported. Afterwards you can just import the Project's SDB file to populate the Tag List in iX Developer.

I just wanted to toss this in - I successfully connected to a Rexroth PPC-R running Indralogic 1.8 (and Synax 13, but I don't think that's relevant) via Ethernet.
The necessary settings in iX are to use a CoDeSys ARTI controller, port 1200, V2 TCP/IP Level 2 Route, Motorola Byte Order, ELAU Controller False.
Import the desired tags using the import button on the tag page and select the .sdb file from your compiled Indralogic project directory. Check off only the tags you need, you can add more later.