SCU

Check Operating
Status Using SCU
PLC

Bromma Presentation 2016-09-05

Prerequisites

This guide assumes that the steps in

HowTo_GettingStarted
HowTo_UpdateSCUFW

has been followed.

1) Open CoDeSys V2.3

a) Follow the instructions in

HowTo_OpenCoDeSysProject

b) Log in to the SCU

2) Locate the nodesearch variable

a) Open the tab “Resources”

b) In the folder “Global Variables” there is an object called
“Global_status” where the nodesearch variable is
located
3) Initiate the nodesearch

a) Locate the variable g_ManualStartNodeSearch and set

it to TRUE
b) The variable g_NodeSearchStatus turns to ”Started”
and when g_NodeSearchStatus turns to ”Done” (after
approximately 20 seconds) the node search is done
c) See the next slide for how to interpret the result of the
nodesearch
 4) Result From the Nodesearch

a) In the same object there is a structure called

NodesFound, this contains all nodes found on CAN1
with Status as below.
Status (Value) Status Meaning
0 No node found
1 Node is found but not expected to be on the network with this nodeID
2 Node is missing
3 Node is found and has correct nodeID
b) There is also three variables listed for your
convienience:
Variable Status Meaning
g_First_Found_ID NodeID of the first found node that is not configured and not optional
g_First_Found_Type Devicetype of the above node
g_First_Missing_ID NodeID of the first missing node