Hi Carsten,
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately when I set the DTYP to opcRaw on a
binary out record, it seems to change the value from 1 to 0 when the OPC
IOC is restarted. The RVAL changes from 1 to 4294967295. The SCAN field
for the record is Passive and PINI is set to 0.
-Patrick
> Hallo Patrick,
>
> the OPC specification for binary values says a zero value will be mapped
> to FALSE and all other numbers will be mapped to TRUE and stored as -1.
> If you start your OPC IOC it gets the current value from the OPC server
> for all OPC variables. The OPC server writes 0xffff for bo-records if they
> are true and so you get 65535 or -1 as integer value. If you want to get 0
> for FALSE and 1 for TRUE you should use in your boolean records (bo and
> bi) the definition field(DTYP, "opc Raw")
>
> Carsten
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using the OPC device support module version 3.8.0.0 to connect to an
> OPC server supplied with Beckhoff TwinCAT 2.11. This is running on Windows
> 7 Professional with Service Pack 1. For the binary out records, if they
> are set to 1, and the EPICS OPC IOC is then restarted, their value is
> changed to 65535. If they are set to 0, and the EPICS IOC is then
> restarted, they remain set to 0. I do not think I have seen this behavior
> with the binary input records.
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Patrick
>
>
>
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