Communicating with Bosch Controllers

For Bosch 2G controllers, you need to install the Bosch 2G PLC Gateway. To do that, perform the following steps:

1. Run the IndraWorks setup. The installation wizard is displayed.

2. Click Next to see the list of products installed.

3. Select Communication - IndraLogic XLC, IndraMotion MLC.

4. Follow the instructions of the installation wizard to complete the installation.

   Note: The gateway must be in the same subnet as the controller.

Once you have the gateway installed, you can use a modified version of the CODESYS Gateway syntax described below to connect to Bosch 2G controllers:

<gateway IP address>:<Bosch runtime address>:1317

Where,

gateway IP address: The IP address of the Bosch 2G PLC Gateway.

Bosch runtime address: This runtime address can be computed from the controller's IP address. It is composed of hexadecimal numbers representing the four fields of the IP address. For example, if the IP address is 192.168.23.32, the hexadecimal representations would be C0.A8.17.20 and the Bosch runtime address would be 0000.C0A8.1720.

This Communication Driver was tested with the L65 2G PLC. For that controller, at IP address 10.168.24.51 and with the Bosch 2G PLC Gateway installed on the same computer (i.e., localhost) as this Communication Driver, the station ID would be:

127.0.0.1:0000.0AA8.1833:1317