Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi,

 

I am working on Siemens S7 PLC driver development based on Asyn. Currently I have two channels of communication between IOC application and PLC, one of which just sends data to PLC on specific port when there is change like simple commands from user. So most of the time the channel remains ideal without any traffic. The other channel is bidirectional and have periodic data traffic on read direction.

Now I want to monitor this channel connection status in case of disconnection or failure from PLC side. I tried with isConnected() function, which doesn’t not work with this channel. But this method is working for other channel where I have bidirectional and periodic data traffic.

So I have tried some active method to detect the connection status, like dummy write(as this is write channel) and after checking the connection status with icConnected() but that also don’t report the broken connection so finally I tried with dummy read and checking the connection status with isConnected() which successfully detect the broken connection..

 

So please give comments for the above scenario and also suggest, is there any other method to check the connection status using drvAsynIPPort for such type of situation ?

 

Thanks for your support,

 

BR,

Jignesh

 

 

 

 
Jignesh PATEL
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