First of all I want to greet to Sergey Kopylov for share his knowledge to build this tutorial. Thank you Sergey!!!
Hardware and Software used
Hardware
- Arduino Uno Rev. 3
- A few buttons, resistors and LEDs
Software
- Arduino IDE v1.0.5
- OPC Server for Arduino v1.3
- Simatic WinCC v6.2 sp3
Creating the WinCC Project
now we need to add the OPC Driver
The OPC drivers is provided by WinCC and you can find it in the WinCC “bin” folder
A new OPC Group will be created in the “Tag Management”
Now is time to create a “New Driver Connection” in the OPC Groups
Now we must to confgure Connection Properties
Select the ArduinoSerialOPCDAServer.1 from the OPC Scout
Yo can press “Test Server” button to test if all is ok
And now you can add new tags inside the Arduino_OPC connection
Binary tag creation
I found the Item Name with the OPC Scout
This name contains the Arduino Name in the OPC Server for Arduino and the Item name in your Arduino Sketch (in my case “I_0”)
Floating-point tag creation
Unsigned integer tag creation
With all tags created you can design the forms with the Graphics Designer
If interesed, you can download the sketch used in this project here
Sergey Kopylov
Colaborator
