I've seen it done. Its an Ethernet/IP master, so if the robot is the scanner to it, it would just be a matter of mapping the bit map to the appropriate bits. Looks like the input map is defined in section 19.1 of the manual.
Thanks for the response! I couldn't access the manual you linked, but I assumed it was the ifm AL1020 manual. Based on that, I was able to perform the following:
1) Press the IO Button on Teach Pendant, then navigate to Ethernet/IP Page. I configured it as 'SCN' and according to sections 18 and 19 of the AL1020 manual for getting inputs only.
2) When I tried enabling the above setup and rebooting the robot, I kept getting "Ethernet/IP (0x126)" and "Ethernet/IP (0x127)" errors. These were resolved by setting the advanced configuration for Reconnect and Quick Connect to TRUE, and setting the Transport Type to MULTICAST:
3) Now I am able to reboot the robot and get no Ethernet/IP related alarms, but the status of the connection is still "Offline" instead of "Running"
I know that the IO-Link device was previously connected to a PLC as an "Exclusive Owner". I disconnected the PLC from the network to isolate the issue, but that still yielded the "Offline" status for the device.
Is there anything else I would be missing to successfully configure the device?
Looks like if it was previously setup as exclusive owner, you have to set the output instance to 100, and the data length to 4 bytes.
