OpenHAB and S7-300 from Siemens

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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The binding works with openhab2.

Has anyone tried to run it with openhab 1.8.3 and can help me ?

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Hello @b-tronic,
simatic binding was written to OH1 natively. So it is able to run under openhab1.8.3. Under OH2 it runs in compatibility mode.

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Hello,

I would be eager to test this bundle as well. I am so glad this gap is being filled. Thanks very much for this.

My complete home automation and alarm system is based on 2 Siemens S7-200 PLCs. I used the bundle referred to above in my OH B5 installation (v1.1.2). Unfortunately I do not see a lot of loading of the bundle neither an attempt to make a connection or read something from the PLC. Could you please help me further?

item file
Number S71515MB0 “MB0 [%d]” { simatic=“plc417:MB0:byte” }

Service file
refresh=2000
plc417=192.168.0.10:0.2

Logs:

2017-01-06 02:16:34.987 [DEBUG] [ell.impl.action.osgi.CommandExtender] - org.openhab.binding.simatic (209): Starting destruction process
2017-01-06 02:16:34.987 [DEBUG] [ell.impl.action.osgi.CommandExtender] - org.openhab.binding.simatic (209): Not an extended bundle or destruction of extension already finished
2017-01-06 02:16:34.987 [DEBUG] [ell.impl.action.osgi.CommandExtender] - org.openhab.binding.simatic (209): Starting destruction process
2017-01-06 02:16:34.987 [DEBUG] [ell.impl.action.osgi.CommandExtender] - org.openhab.binding.simatic (209): Not an extended bundle or destruction of extension already finished
2017-01-06 02:16:35.019 [DEBUG] [ell.impl.action.osgi.CommandExtender] - org.openhab.binding.simatic (209): Starting destruction process
2017-01-06 02:16:35.019 [DEBUG] [ell.impl.action.osgi.CommandExtender] - org.openhab.binding.simatic (209): Not an extended bundle or destruction of extension already finished
2017-01-06 02:16:35.034 [DEBUG] [mpl.info.InfoBundleTrackerCustomizer] - Ignore incorrect info null provided by bundle org.openhab.binding.simatic
2017-01-06 02:16:35.034 [INFO ] [g.apache.aries.spifly.dynamic.bundle] - Bundle Considered for SPI providers: org.openhab.binding.simatic
2017-01-06 02:16:35.034 [INFO ] [g.apache.aries.spifly.dynamic.bundle] - No ‘SPI-Provider’ Manifest header. Skipping bundle: org.openhab.binding.simatic

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Hi be04062,

if you realy have a cpu 417 you should use slot 3 insted 2. Maybe that helps.

regards Thomas

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Hi Thomas,

Its an S7 200 CPU and from my other development I know its located fixed at slot 0 rack 2. But I have read the cpus for 300 and 400 series can be located in other positions.

However, I would expect somewhere in the logs a connection failure to the CPU which I do not find therefor I think the bundle does not even try to connect.

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Hello @be04062,

I don’t know why there is no connect try in log. That’s strange. However communication through CP243 (S7-200) is not supported / implemented. That’s because I don’t have PLC for tests. But if you are interested to be a tester with your hardware, I can implemented it. It will not be much difficult.

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Awesome addon - How does the addon communicate with the PLC? Does it use PUT/GET or do i have to make an S7 connection or?

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Hello @Rasmus7700,

it uses S7 communication (with libnodave library help). You only have to configure target PLC in this addon configuration file. Nothing has to be done on the target PLC.

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Why isn’t the binding on the official site and can be installed from the Paper UI?

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This binding is for openHAB 1.x but it works in openHAB2 under compatibility mode too. How to use OH1.x binding under OH2 can be find at http://docs.openhab.org/developers/development/compatibilitylayer.html

For OH2 there is another binding right now in pull request stage (https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons/pull/1606). So I thing there is no reason to convert this binding to pure OH2 binding. N

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Hello vita

I have a setup with a S7 226 CPU and Cp243-IT Communication Processer. I can communicate with libnodave with the CPU. Option “-2” in libnodave is needed to communicate with CP243

But no chance in Openhab.
Error Message:

2018-07-16 13:58:01.322 [INFO ] [imatic.internal.SimaticGenericDevice] - isoTCP:192.168.8.240: Trying to reconnect

2018-07-16 13:58:03.582 [ERROR] [.binding.simatic.internal.SimaticTCP] - isoTCP:192.168.8.240 - cannot connect to PLC due: Broken pipe (Write failed)

################################### Simatic Binding ######################################
#
# plc - define tagret PLC by IP address, cpu rack and slot. Definition look IP:rack.slot (ex.: 192.168.254.36:0.2). 
# Above that communication type can be optionally specify at the end separate by semicolon.
# Supported communication types : PG, OP and S7.
# It is possible defined more PLCs ex. plc, plc1, plc315,... 
# 
# refresh - check for new data interval - default 1000ms   
#
simatic:refresh=2000      
simatic:plc=192.168.8.240:0.2
#simatic:plc1212=192.168.254.99:0.1:OP
#simatic:plc1515=192.168.254.127:0.1
#simatic:plc417=192.168.254.128:0.3

Thank you for your investigation

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As I wrote in post above, S7-200 is not supported in this binding.

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Did a quick and dirty change in org.openhab.binding.simatic

Changed Line 161 in SimaticTCP.java to:
dc = new TCP243Connection(di, rack, slot);

Communication to S7-200 is working stable over CP243 since almost one month now.

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Continuing the discussion from OpenHAB and S7-300 from Siemens:

Hi vita,

is it possible to enlarge the buffer of the “readBytes” an the “writeBytes”?
I’ve got the following error:

2019-01-20 19:48:23.603 [ERROR] [.binding.simatic.internal.SimaticTCP] - isoTCP:192.168.2.50 - Read data area error (Area=I8-I26, Return code=0xffffff7e, Error=Buffer size insufficient while readBytes)

I’ve got a lot of variables in the simatic binding an it runs stable, but if i add one fother variable the portstate change from 1 to 6 an the error message comes in a loop of 3 seconds. If I clear a variable, the binding runs again stable.

I hope you can find a oppertunity to solve my problem. Thanks!

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HI,
are you sure that you use latest binding version ? If so please create new issue in binding repository and attach there your binding configuration also. I will look on it.

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Hi vita,

is it possible to add the datatype TOD (time of day)? It would be easier to change the time of timeclocks.

I thank you for your effort.

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Hi,

Is not TOD just number od milliseconds stored in doubleword? So to store time you can easily use doubleword address (MD or DBD)

    1. 2019, 12:01, xxx via openHAB Community bot@community.openhab.org napsal/a:
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Hi vita,

no it is a Value with houre, minute and second. I’ve took a screenshot for you:

I tried some different item properties but it shows all times a wrong value.

Here is one of the attempt:
Number EinschaltZeitpunkt “Value[%1$td.%1$tm.%1$ts]” { simatic=“plc:DB42.DBD0:word:IO” }

and my log (i changend from float to word):
2019-03-02 19:13:43.013 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - EinschaltZeitpunkt changed from 0.000000000000000000000000000000000005951778149940272 to 83700000

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Number from DBD0 is 83700000 right? That is:

83700000 ms

83700 s

1395 min

23h 15min 00s

So that is same number as that one from TIA

Best

    1. 2019, 19:31, xxx via openHAB Community bot@community.openhab.org napsal/a:
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Hi Vita,

thank you for the statement.