Hello! I have a KRC 4 controller which originally came with beckoff profibus module. I took module out and went with profinet setup. For profinet i used the KLI interface of the robot and managed to get it to work. My problem is now when i try to connect with PC to the robot controller with WorkVisual i have to unplug the profinet cable from KLI and plug ethernet cable directly to PC in order to successfully connect WorkVisual.Also i had to change the KLI ip address different from profinet ip because it was giving me the double ip address error. My question is it possible to configure the KLI so that i can connect to robot controller over profinet with WorkVisual or Virtual pendant so that i don't have switch cables anymore. I tried to setup same ip address for profinet and KLI but with different ports but always give me double ip address error. Any good ideas?
KRC 4 PROFINET KLI
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DannyDJ -
September 1, 2013 at 7:53 PM -
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Anybody?
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Normal practice is to add a powered switch to the KLI bus to accommodate multiple simultaneous physical connections.
Are you using the robot as a ProfiNet slave, or master? As a slave, PN doesn't get an IP address of its own, it just uses the KLI address.
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The robot is slave, Siemens PLC is master. And for the configuration of the IP's? Because now i had to change KLI IP address different(different subnet) from PROFINET IP in order to work.
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That... I don't understand. I have a KRC4 running ProfiNet as a slave right here in front of me, and no IP address needed to be set for ProfiNet. The ProfiNet master PLC finds the KRC4 as a ProfiNet slave using the IP address of the KLI.
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On the robot controller when i first installed profinet option package, the ip`s for profinet were the same for KLI and profinet. Under network configuration there were to virtual 5 and virtual 6 options available one for profinet and one for windows interface for connecting with workvisual. But robot controller gaved me error messages that there is IP conflict or double ip address error so i have to change ip for windows interface option (virtual 6) diferent from from profinet in order to get rid of error messages. So after that profinet works ok with siemens PLC. It`s just that when i try to conect with the robot through router with Workvisual i can see the profinet ip of the robot in workvisual but it doesn`t want to connect. Work visual give me error while connecting. Then tried to connect directly to with PC and not the router, i had to unplug the profinet cable from KLI port and plug in ethernet cable of the PC. When i do this, then robot has the IP address for windows interface(virtual6) and not ip of the profinet(virtual 5) over the same KLI port and then i can connect to the robot with WorkVisual. Then i tried setting the same ip address for both windows inferface and profinet with different port numbers but again robot gave errors for IP conflicts.So i would really like to connect to the robot without switching cables and over profinet if it`s possible and i thin it should be. Also i can ping the robot through profinet but can,t conect with workvisual.
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That's strange. I don't even have VN6 enabled, only VN5, and everything (ProfiSafe, ProfiNet, WorkVisual, Windows file sharing) works over that connection.
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Normal practice is to add a powered switch to the KLI bus to accommodate multiple simultaneous physical connections.Are you using the robot as a ProfiNet slave, or master? As a slave, PN doesn't get an IP address of its own, it just uses the KLI address.
The KRC4 has a second fisical KLI port in board (down there) that you can use without a switch. I used once but over Ethernet/IP.
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The KRC4 has a second fisical KLI port in board (down there) that you can use without a switch. I used once but over Ethernet/IP.Can you please elaborate? I am not sure I understand....
Are you referring to KSI port (X43 on CCU)? That would be a different interface. The only KLI port is on the KPC (unless of course you add an ethernet switch).
EthernetIP must be on virtual5.
If you want to have separate IP address for windows network, you can create another interface (virtual6) and mark it as Windows interface but:
a) it must be on a different subnet
b) it must not use IP address from reserved range
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Thanks Panic mode. It's right, I understood. Some time ago I used this X43 on CCU (not sure X43, maybe... but was on CCU) to upload a program via Work Visual on KRC4.
I would to like to no some thing else. I am able to use Profinet(profisafe) and Ethernet/IP (to control a 3rd drive, a SEW Movidrive) on the same Kuka KRC4? On same KLI?
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[size=78%]EthernetIP [/size][/size][size=78%]and [/size][/size][size=78%]ProfiNet[/size][/size][size=78%] are not compatible. You can use one or another but not both at the same time.[/size]