Содержание

1 iRidium for Velocio
2 Setting Velocio PLC Ace
- 2.1 Working in iRidium studio
3 Tips&Tricks

iRidium for Velocio

a set of tools to create control interfaces for Velocio equipment.

iRidium for Velocio is a set of tools that allows to create an interfave to control a house or an office on the basis of Velocio equipment. PLC Velocio Ace equipment works with iRidium studio via Modbus protocol. Read more about setting Modbus in iRidium here.

Example: Velocio Ace 11

iRidium mobile team tested Velocio PLC Ace 11 with Modbus TCP Gateway.

Setting Velocio PLC Ace

To set Velocio controller, download the following programming environment vBuilder. During installation, confirm insatlling a driver for COM-port, required to connect a controller to a PC.

1 Connect Velocio PLC Ace to a PC.

Start vBuilder and create a new project. Selet "Flow Chart" type of project.

2 Click "Setup Harware" in the top left corner.

3 Select a type of setting.

Auto Setup - define the type of a controller automatically
Manual Setup - manual selection of the version of a controller

4 Set additional parameres of a high-speed step counter and step exit (if required), click "Done".

5 Click "Mod". Configure the controller to work with iRidium via Modbus protocol.

5.1 Enter Modbus PLC ID.

Modbus PLC ID is the ID of a device for Modbus driver to work in iRidium.

5.2 Enter Modbus Address. The range of Modbus PLC ID is 0-255.

6 Click "Tag" and select rewriting for outcoming tags on a controller.

7 Make up a scheme of logic work on Velocio controller.

8 Write the created logic scheme on Velocio controller by pressing "Program"(F6) button.

9 After logic is written, the created program must be launched. Press "Run"(F5) button.

10 After the launch disconnect the device from the USB port of a PC and connect it to the control scheme.

Working in iRidium studio

PLC Velocio Ace equipment works with iRidium studio via Modbus protocol.

1 Create a panel project.

2 Add Modbus TCP driver to a project.

3 Enter driver settings. In our example they are:

Host - IP address of the gateway;
Port - connection port;
Update Time - time of request.

4 Create a required number of Commands and Feedback channels according to the number of addresses, set on a controller. Click right mouse button on the driver and select Add Feedback or Add Command.

5 Fill in the following parameters:

Device ID - ID of a controller set in 5.1 point controller settings;
Type - type of register(Coil in our example);
Address - address set in 5.2 point controller settings.

6 Assign the created tags to graphical items with the help of "Drag&Drop". Enter a value to send to a channel.

Tips&Tricks

Tips&Triks

If there are delays in connection with equipment, check if you are using extra registers in Modbus driver. Non-existent registers can slow down substantionally the speed of iRidium work with a controller via Modbus protocol.

After programming a controller (point 8 controller settings) the created program must be launched (point 9 controller settings).