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September 12, 2025 14 mins
Shawn walk's through adding IO-Link devices to an IO-Link Master connected to a Rockwell Logix PAC using Studio 5000 in today's episode of #AutomationTechTalk Lunchtime Edition livestream: Watch Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog:  Listen to Automation Tech Talk on The Automation Blog: Automation Tech Talk Show Notes: Thanks for listening! If you'd like to join the show sometime, don't hesitate to use the contact us link. Link mentioned in video: - IFM AL1322 Webpage (includes AOI downloads) - Shawn's Online Courses - Shawn's In-Person Courses Read the transcript on The Automation Blog: (automatically generated) Shawn Tierney (Host): Hey everybody. Happy lunchtime. I hope everything is going great for you today. It is Friday, and I am pretty excited about that. Planning on spending a lot of time building more of these demos, this weekend. I got all the stuff finally came in. So and then I'll be sharing it with you over the next couple of weeks. Next week, I may have, more recorded content than live content. I'll still try to release it at lunchtime, but, just some of the things I gotta do requires me to have, you know, to go through and do edits and whatnot. So in any case, though but I should be around almost all of next week, lunchtime, whether it's recorded or live, I'll be here. But in any case, I just hope you all are having a great Friday. And today, we're gonna do part two, and we're gonna actually set up the two devices, the two IO Link devices. I thought this would be fun. Now if you guys are having any troubles hearing me or seeing me, please put it in the chat. Everything on my side looks like it's working. So, I'm just gonna go ahead and get started. Now I did play around with, some settings early this morning to see if I could get this to work. There we go. Okay. I I'm not a a huge fan of how they design everything, but, at least this is better than what we're doing the other day. In any case, we're back in Studio 5000. And for anybody who didn't catch yesterday's show, what we did was we added these two. Let me see if I can switch over to those. We added nope. That's not what I wanted to do, and that has to do with the selection. You always have to select this. So let's try it again. There we go. So we added these two devices to our ControlLogix, And we have one IO Link device here and one IO Link device here, but we already have the masters added to logic. So let's go back here, and, yeah, I'll click over here. And now we're inside logic, so you can see them right here down here. Make sure you guys are seeing what I'm seeing. And, now what we need to do is get the data in from the devices. We already have it coming in as, you know, just control the tags, but this is this is not, you know, what you would want. I mean, it's it's the twenty first century for crying out loud. Right? We want our data, you know, to be more, massage than that. And, thankfully, the vendor, IFM, has some AOIs, and they're in that same folder, that same download, the Allen Bradley download. They put all the AOIs in here, which I think is great. At first, I went to the actual pages for the different products, and there were no AOIs there. And I'm like, I think they're actually in the, the starter package for Allen Bradley. So I went into there. Again, we downloaded this yesterday. I talked about where to get this yesterday. There's the add on instructions, IFM devices. And the first device I have well, the device plugged into number, the first, IO MetLink master is, this was the RVP. So we're looking for RXP. Okay. And so what we wanna do is bring in this. We have an eight port, so we need one that goes all the way up to eight ports. And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna copy this path here. I'm gonna come over to our assets folder here, add on instructions. I'm gonna, input and add on instruction. I'm gonna give it the path open. We have eight port devices here,
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(00:00):
Hey, everybody. Happy lunchtime. I hope everything is
going great for you today. It is Friday,
and I am pretty excited about that.
Planning on spending a lot of time building
more of these demos, this weekend. I got
all the stuff finally came in. So and
then I'll be sharing it with you over
the next couple of weeks. Next week, I
may have, more recorded content than live content.

(00:21):
I'll still try to release it at lunchtime,
but,
just some of the things I gotta do
requires me to have, you know, to go
through and do edits and whatnot. So in
any case, though but I should be around
almost all of next week, lunchtime, whether it's
recorded or live, I'll be here. But in
any case, I just hope you all are
having a great Friday. And today, we're gonna
do part two, and we're gonna actually set

(00:42):
up the two devices, the two IO Link
devices. I thought this would be fun. Now
if you guys are having any troubles hearing
me or seeing me, please put it in
the chat. Everything on my side looks like
it's working. So, I'm just gonna go ahead
and get started. Now I did play around
with,
some settings early this morning to see
if I could get this to work. There
we go. Okay.

(01:03):
I I'm not a a huge fan of
how they design everything, but, at least this
is better than what we're doing the other
day. In any case,
we're back in
Studio 5000. And for anybody who didn't catch
yesterday's show,
what we did was we added these two.
Let me see if I can switch over
to those.
We added nope. That's not what I wanted

(01:24):
to do, and that has to do with
the selection. You always have to select this.
So let's try it again. There we go.
So we added these two devices
to our ControlLogix,
And we have one IO Link device here
and one IO Link device here, but we
already have the masters added to logic. So
let's go back here,

(01:44):
and, yeah, I'll click over here. And now
we're inside logic, so you can see them
right here down here. Make sure you guys
are seeing what I'm seeing.
And, now what we need to do is
get the data in from the devices. We
already have it coming in
as, you know, just control the tags, but
this is this is not, you know,
what you would want. I mean, it's it's

(02:05):
the twenty first century for crying out loud.
Right? We want our data, you know, to
be more,
massage than that.
And, thankfully, the vendor, IFM,
has some AOIs, and they're in that same
folder, that same download, the Allen Bradley download.
They put all the AOIs in here, which
I think is great. At first, I went

(02:25):
to the actual pages for the different products,
and there were no AOIs there. And I'm
like, I think they're actually in
the, the starter package for Allen Bradley. So
I went into there. Again, we downloaded this
yesterday. I talked about where to get this
yesterday. There's the add on instructions,
IFM devices.
And the first device I have well, the
device plugged into number, the first,

(02:46):
IO MetLink master is,
this was the RVP. So we're looking for
RXP.
Okay. And so what we wanna do is
bring in this. We have an eight port,
so we need one that goes all the
way up to eight ports. And so what
I'm gonna do is I'm gonna copy this
path here. I'm gonna come over to our
assets folder here, add on instructions. I'm gonna,

(03:08):
input and add on instruction.
I'm gonna give it the path
open.
We have eight port devices here, so I'm
gonna use eight port,
and that'll bring it in. I'm gonna accept
all the defaults when it comes in.
Bada bing, bada bang,
bada bada boom.
Excellent. Excellent. And now I know the other
one I have is

(03:29):
a temperature sensor, TN something.
So let's see here. TN.
K. A port, because that's what I have
in the field, eight ports.
And bringing that out of instruction as well,
except the defaults.
And on just a mere moments, they both

(03:50):
come in now.
You know, you probably know you can go
to this add on,
you know, toolbar here and bring them in
that way. Although, did you know you can
bring them in like this too?
Right? Which is pretty cool because sometimes it's
easier to see it here because this text
is really small.
Okay. So in any case, we have them
in. Now let's see if we can zoom

(04:10):
in here now.
We have to create tags for these.
Okay. So I'll just do a new tag,
and I'm just gonna call this these are
the AL1322.
I'll call this a.
Actually, this is actually for the device. So
let me call this the RVP
510.
I'll just call it a in case we

(04:30):
have another one in the future,
and then,
I'll create it.
K.
And I'll do the same thing here. I
might as well do that right now, and
this is for our t n I think
it's a 2511
a. K.
Boom. So I got the backing tags for

(04:50):
each of the add on instructions. Now I
have to give it the PLC input.
This one, you you know, it's pretty obvious.
Of course, we have I named thirteen twenty
two a and b. Those are the two
devices, the masters out there, but you have
to grab the data.
K? You have to grab the data. I
tried grabbing this when I was testing it
early this morning. It's like, oh, I don't
like that. I want the data.

(05:11):
K. So we'll do that. That's a, and
then this guy is connected up to b.
K. So we'll go over to
input
data.
K.
Port number.
Now if we I don't know if this
thing will let me do this. Let's try
it like this.
Okay. Good. So let's see this guy.

(05:32):
K. This is the RVP he's in. And
this encoder, we've we've showed it in the
show before. We've we've had it on connected
at, Allen Bradley and Siemens PLCs, but,
we can see it's, plugged into port one.
K. This is the
power port Ethernet
in and out, and then this is an
IoT port. And, again, we we've covered that
in previous episodes. And then for the temperature

(05:53):
sensor, I have it in Port 2. K.
So let's see if we can get string
yard to go back to
this view here. Alright. Great. And now,
so this guy is gonna be Port 1
because that's the RVP, and this is gonna
be Port 2.
This is,
no nobody's complaining that they can't hear me,
so that's good. The vendor ID. So,

(06:16):
let's see. I do have the
website up here,
and let's start with the temperature sensor. So
this is IFM.
So the vendor ID is always going to
be
310,
and this particular device ID is 582. So
this is a temperature sensor. So let me
go back
here,

(06:36):
and it will go
310.
And what is it? 582582.
And in the gradient listed in that
if we search on gradient, we will see
it's point zero one.

(06:59):
You guys see that?
Yeah. Yeah, that's on the screen. Okay.
So let's go back over to
the VMware
point zero one. Beautiful. Okay. Now we gotta
do this guy. Point number one. Vendor ID,
we know it's gonna be 310 because it
is still
IFM.
And then

(07:20):
device ID. I have no idea what it
is. So let's go
back to
the IOD
datasheet,
and I think it's at the very top.
Just scroll up.
Yep. It wasn't.
Here we go.

(07:40):
Device ID,
496.
496.
K.
And then I'm gonna leave that all blank.
Alright. So if we've done this correctly, this
should massage that data and give us, you
know, a counter, like, how many pulses per
rev. I think this is defaulted to ten
twenty four. And then the temperature and for

(08:02):
whatever reason, this is even though the unit's
set for Fahrenheit, this block is showing that
it's Celsius.
I did not have a time to figure
out why that was. I did look through
the block to see if there's any way
I could toggle it in the block itself.
There wasn't.
And so, let's go ahead and download this
bad boy
and see if we get it to work.

(08:30):
Come on, puppy.
Yeah. So all these limitations of StreamYard StreamYard
is great for doing,
interviews. Right? But, when it comes to doing
things like this, I'm really struggling. I may
have to go back to,
restream.
Yep. Put the controller back into run mode.
I've been using StreamYard for the for the

(08:50):
interviews we're doing the automation museum, which will
come out Monday,
but, the first episode anyways. We're recording episode
four this Sunday.
But, in any case so you can see
it right here,
and
everything looks like it's working. So let's take
a look here. I am going to turn
you just have to trust me because I
can't do a split screen with this software.

(09:11):
I'm gonna turn the encoder
slowly, and we can see the counter turning
up. Right?
And that is now represented by a tag,
not just some random data tag,
but it's actually did these go as a
program tags?
K.
Yeah. That's, the add on instruction. That's not

(09:33):
what I wanted.
Nope. They're controller tags.
So here's the RVP five ten.
And we can see the count right there.
See all the information about this. Let's leave
it in this view. See if you guys
can see that.
K.
And then the beautiful thing is, yeah, it's

(09:54):
in the data table. Right? In the controller
tags.
Caught me there. Went a little legacy on
you.
You can see it here right on the
block too, which is really nice. Right?
So it just takes that data, massages it,
and, makes it look nice. And then on
the temperature
You know what?

(10:15):
Something happened.
How come my vendor ID didn't get put
in there? Because I I thought I pressed
center.
Sometimes when you do it yeah. Look at
it. Did I get that number wrong?
That's weird.

(10:38):
You guys thought it was easy to live
stream.
310582.
I'm just joking.
310582.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Port 2.
You see this?
I didn't choose the right one.
Typo. You guys probably saw that when I

(10:58):
did that too.
K.
Interesting.
Interesting typo.
Yeah. So we have two different masses here.
So we're
you know, it was right for us to
get zeros here because there was nothing
nothing attached to port two. So the feedback

(11:21):
was
zeros.
And so that's good. So if I woulda
had another thing, I guess, I coulda done
is I could actually have moved the, temperature
controller
over to the other master, and it should've
worked.
Okay. So right now it says, 23.
That's Celsius. Of course, it's probably well, we
could just take a look here. 75 degrees

(11:42):
in here and climbing, sadly.
Let's see here.
Oh, yeah. We're going up.
Not going up as fast as I was
it went up earlier. Interesting.

(12:04):
Got up to 77.
Now it's falling because I let go of
it.
And, yeah, that was actually pretty easy to
do.
Just come out here and show you the
devices one more time.
So you could see this is what I
was doing to turn the encoder,
and,
I was just holding on to this to

(12:25):
get the temperature to go up.
Let me get that on there. Yeah.
But,
yeah, that was pretty easy to do.
And so with that, I think that'll wrap
up wrap up today's
automation
tech talk about IO Link. Did you guys
catch the IO Link show from yesterday? It
came out a little later. It just been

(12:46):
so crazy, but I did get that out,
and I thought that was an excellent I
actually sponsored it, so the video would be,
ad free. I sponsored it myself. So I
talk a little bit about, the automation school
and whatnot.
But in any case, just wanna, just remind
you, Monday, we should have the episode of
the automation
museum. It will not come out on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn does not,

(13:08):
want people to,
have long format videos. So So they only
they limit you to, like, a ten minute
upload, and they don't want your live streaming
from long videos like that from,
from a file. So, Monday, if you're on
LinkedIn, watch it on LinkedIn. That won't be,
the automation museum. You'll have to go to
automation blog, or you'll have to go to
YouTube to see that. And then on, Tuesday

(13:31):
through Friday,
my hope is to have,
some recorded content because I'm doing sponsored videos,
more IO Link videos,
more distributed IO. We'll be doing Rockwell. We'll
be doing Siemens,
and, all kinds of different, stuff. So, hopefully,
you guys will enjoy those and learn something
too because the whole purpose of this is

(13:51):
to, you know, just share knowledge with you
guys and hopefully make your you more efficient
at your jobs
and, you know, give you a reference you
could share with somebody else in case they
have the same questions. You don't have to
go through the whole thing all over again.
But with that, I wanna thank I haven't
even eat lunch yet. I gotta go eat
lunch. But I wanna thank you all for
tuning in today. I wanna wish you all
a very happy Friday. If you didn't catch

(14:12):
yesterday's podcast on IO Link, please check it
out. Michael did a great job. And, get
some METTLEDO content coming up soon as well
as, a bunch of podcasts were scheduled for
podcasts out through Thanksgiving.
So, we got some great content, and we've
met with some great vendors. So I look
forward to sharing that with you as well.
And with that, I'm just gonna wish you
all good health and happiness. And until next

(14:33):
time, my friends,
peace.
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