HMI or PLC hardware configuration?  For WinCC RT Advanced, your IPC477E is your hardware.  You can try using WinCC Advanced which allows the PC to simulate many different types of HMIs.  The RT Advanced allows your PC to BE the HMI and not simulate it.

If I am wrong in my understanding, please forgive.  I do not use either RT or RT Advanced.  Just know what Siemens support engineers have told me over the years.

Kendrick

I can download WinCC RT Advanced screens to my new IPC477E via TIA Portal V15, but when I try to download the hardware configuration TIA says in cannot connect.  My IPC shows up in the list of accessible devices.

How do I connect to download the hardware configuration?  Without that I have screens that will not connect to the PLC.

One thing that may matter is the PG/PC Interface configuration where the S7 connection is configured.  It identifies which network adapter to use and what protocol(s) to implement.  Verify that is configured properly according to your needs.

If you are using PLCSimulator, the network adapter is configured according to the PLC sim and WinCC RT Adv F1-Help on establishing connections.

Kendrick

Thank you 0_Eienstein.

I may be trying to do the wrong thing to establish connection.  I'll keep trying.

Thanks again.

Is WinCC RT Adv running? It should be "ready to receive" or something like that waiting on someone to load a project to it or sitting there in the WinCC RT Adv control panel (if it's actually behaving like a regular Siemens Panel) if you understand me.

Kendrick

If this were a piece of I/O hardware I would assign the Profinet name.  I can't do this with the IPC.  I can only set the IP address.

I am not using a simulator, just trying to replace an existing HMI on a line that has been running for 5 years.  I have been successful in replacing the Comfort Touch Panels in the past but this IPC does not come ready for a project download.