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[SOLVED] Help with fieldbus node - Farani - August-14th-2019
Hi.
I am trying to receive and send boolean value to my test PLC with the fieldbus node. I was able to rec from the PLC without error. But i was unable to send to the PLC through the fieldbus output node. How can i test this?
Error message : OUT_NODE expects the property 'payload' as an object
Attached are the snapshots.
RE: Help with fieldbus node - Armin@netPI - August-14th-2019
Hi there,
the fieldbus nodes have a readme info text as any node under node-red has. Just click the node and click the "i" button to read it.
There you will find an example how to hand over data to the fieldbus.
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msg.payload has to be a JSON object containing the property "value" holding the value(s) to be written to the signal specified
Example:
msg.payload.value = [9,8,7,6] will write a signal of type 'array' with 4 elements
msg.payload.value = 1 will write a discrete signal
msg.payload.value = "true" will also write a discrete signal of type bit
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I have one remark. We can't see your screen shots. You have specifically press "add attachment" to append a screen shot to a post. Just selecting a file is not enough.
Thx
Armin
RE: Help with fieldbus node - Farani - August-15th-2019
I've updated the screenshots. So in this case, i have to include a change node in between the inject and fieldbus out node?
Btw, i was following the pdf documentation as per snapshot
RE: Help with fieldbus node - Armin@netPI - August-15th-2019
Dear Farani,
you found a bug in the documentation. The documentation of the inject node in relation to the fieldbus node is wrong. Thank you for your remark
It is not correct to inject a "number" type value to "msg.payload" like as it is documented today.
Instead you have to use "JSON" type value and then inject a msg.payload value {"value":2} as example.
Look how I did it:
What you can of course do is to use a simple inject node that connects to a function node where you write a javascript code like this:
msg.payload = {};
msg.payload.value = 2;
and then connect it to a fieldbus node. Look here:
Sorry for this inconvenience. I already wrote the documentation team an email to get it corrected in future in the manual.
Thx
Armin
RE: Help with fieldbus node - Farani - August-16th-2019
(August-15th-2019, 06:32 AM)Armin@netPI Wrote: Dear Farani,
you found a bug in the documentation. The documentation of the inject node in relation to the fieldbus node is wrong. Thank you for your remark
It is not correct to inject a "number" type value to "msg.payload" like as it is documented today.
Instead you have to use "JSON" type value and then inject a msg.payload value {"value":2} as example.
Look how I did it:
What you can of course do is to use a simple inject node that connects to a function node where you write a javascript code like this:
msg.payload = {};
msg.payload.value = 2;
and then connect it to a fieldbus node. Look here:
Sorry for this inconvenience. I already wrote the documentation team an email to get it corrected in future in the manual.
Thx
Armin
Much appreciated. Thank you very much.
RE: [SOLVED] Help with fieldbus node - Armin@netPI - August-20th-2019
By the way for all others who are interested in the common "Fieldbus Node" video for Hilscher's Edge Gateways:
Here is the link to it https://youtu.be/TmNgbGS_ydE