ABB IRB6400 S4 M94 connected to computer...

[Mikael]

Does anybody know if it is possible to connect the first S4 (M94-96) models to computer for sending/receiving programs backup etc ?


The S2 and S3 can use Start S3 from www.ppm.no
S4 only floppy ??
The S4+ can use robotstudio.

Mikael / ABB IRB6400 S4 M94 

[Sven Weyer]

Hi Mikael,
I don't know any connection with a PC for the S4 controller! You can't do a backup at this controller version!
Early the first S4c controller have this backup function included!
The S4c+ controller are the first type of ethernet connection. Then you can use a normally ftp-program for up- and downloads.
The settings on you pc when you want use a connection with the S4c and the S4c+ must be:
IP 192.168.125.82
SubNetMask: 255.255.255.240
Gateway: 192.168.125.81

When you want connection you must call the server 192.168.125.1 and is not allowed to used a 'anonymos' login. Wich user or passwort is unimportant. But you must fill out with any letters.

With the new IRC5 is this much easyer. You can use a dhcp on you pc and the controller give your pc the settings automaticlly. With the ftp program you can use the same settings to connect.
But also you can use is the RobstudioOnline. Attention is another thing like the robstudio!
The robstudioOnline is freeware!

I hope you can use this information!

Take care!

robotic74

[Mikael]

Thank you robotic74.

[Hunwell]

hello both:
    I once had seen on my equipment's old computer a serial port connection icon, using Windows HyperTerminal tool, connect to a IRB6000 M93 controller using RS232 cable.
   Unfortunely, the connection parameter was not correct when I takeover this equipment. And our regional ABB srvice guy does not know how to restore this connection since S4 is a too old type.
   Do you have any idea?

[Dan Junkel]

Maybe this comes too late (about two years too late), as I ended up using this forum only a few days ago... :)

There is a way to do this. Although M94 controllers cannot be equipped with a ethernet board, they support SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol), provided that the robot has the RAP option activated.

Saying this, you may get see a light in the end of the tunnel. It is a train. RAP communication requires a lots of work to construct the function calls. There are, however, communication libraries to do this at reasonable price.

The bad news, again, is that the library I know, supports Windows version up to NT4.0, but not above. Now, you might quess that the reason for me to end up in this forum was to find out if someone has found a way to configure SLIP on XP or Vista and has found a way to connect to a M94 controller. But no...