FATEK CBEH Manual
FATEK CBEH Manual

FATEK CBEH Manual

Ethernet communication board

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Ethernet Communication Board
CBEH/CBEH-0A/CBEH-2A

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  • Page 1 Ethernet Communication Board CBEH/CBEH-0A/CBEH-2A...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to CBEH Multifunction Ethernet Communication Module ..5 Summary ....................5 Main Product Functions ................5 Product Features ..................6 Manual Reading Guidance ................. 7 Product Appearance .................. 8 Companionate Softwares ................. 11 Chapter 2 PLC and CBEH Communication Interfaces ........... 13 Chapter 3 CBEH Basic Configuration Settings ..............
  • Page 3 Sample Application .................. 62 Chapter 7 Monitoring PLC’s Internal Status Using The CBEH System Webpage ..63 Adding Monitoring Points ................ 63 Modifying and Deleting Monitoring Points ..........64 Modify the Value of Monitoring Point ............. 65 Chapter 8 Active Call Back ................... 66 Option Setting Page .................
  • Page 4 Version Revision date Author Detail V1.0 2016/12/28 Edison Lin Update with CBEH-0A and 2A model V1.1 2017/1/23 Edison Lin 1) 4.4 Modify service provider from SMS King to Message Media 2) Modify document format V1.2 2017/3/23 Edison Lin Fix NP description...
  • Page 5: Chapter 1 Introduction To Cbeh Multifunction Ethernet Communication Module

    Communications Port1 and Port2 will be used when this expansion board is applied. Port1 is fixed as FATEK Slave operation mode and can be used for the editing and debugging of ladder programs. Port2 is used to support the Modbus-TCP or FATEK client operation mode.
  • Page 6: Product Features

    For a more responsive maintenance requirement, the FBs-CBEH series expansion board provides the Email sending function. When special situations occurred on the workstation, the ladder program can issue the “send Email command” to the CBEH and further send an Email to notify the maintenance personnel. In addition, through Internet service provider that provides “Email to SMS”...
  • Page 7: Manual Reading Guidance

    16.0.912.75 or above. 1.4 Manual Reading Guidance The FBs-CBEH series expansion board has a lot of functions, but most of the functions are independent. When apply the functions, you do not have to read the entire manual, just the explanations in related chapters. For example, if you are only going to use the basic Fatek internet data communication application, then you only need to read Chapter 3.
  • Page 8: Product Appearance

    1.5 Product Appearance The introduction to the FBs-CBEH series expansion board’s appearance and function parts are as follows:  FBs-CBEH: ① NP jumper: When the jumper is set on the left two pins, it is not password-protected. ② Boot jumper: When the jumper is set on the left two pins, it will be forced to enter Boot operation mode when started up.
  • Page 9  FBs-CBEH-0A: ① NP jumper: When the jumper is set on the left two pins, it is not password-protected (Firmware version older than V7.6 is NP mode without attaching any jumper). ② Boot jumper: When the jumper is set on the right two pins, it will be forced to enter Boot operation mode when started up.
  • Page 10  FBs-CBEH-2A: ① NP jumper: When the jumper is set on the left two pins, it is not password-protected (Firmware version older than V7.6 is NP mode without attaching any jumper). ② Boot jumper: When the jumper is set on the right two pins, it will be forced to enter Boot operation mode when started up.
  • Page 11: Companionate Softwares

    1.6 Companionate Softwares  Ether Config An application that works with the FBs-CBEH series expansion board provides a window-based configuration software, used to set the module’s basic settings, password protection and firmware update etc. Please refer to Chapter 3.1 for detailed explanation.
  • Page 12 The FBs-CBEH series expansion board provides the function to allow users to easily browse or control the status within the PLC through a customized web page; the customized web page can be created through this software without requiring the user to have the skills to write HTML. Please refer to chapter 4 for detailed explanation.
  • Page 13: Chapter 2 Plc And Cbeh Communication Interfaces

    Note : The values in this table is written by the CPU. For register ranges D3978~D3989 and D3991~D3999, only D3990 is written by the CPU during 0x4951, all others are written by the CBEH.
  • Page 14 Email Sending Register Description D3961 Email command code (CPU Written Setting value Status 0x3370 Execute Email sending, when completed, value zero must be entered. D3962 The message number of the Email to be sent (CPU Written Email send status Content value Status Standby D3963...
  • Page 15: Chapter 3 Cbeh Basic Configuration Settings

    Chapter 3 CBEH Basic Configuration Settings To set CBEH’s basic configuration, the user can perform settings through the Ether_Config software or the system webpage provided by CBEH. The comparison of the two setting methods are listed in the table below:...
  • Page 16: Connecting To Cbeh Through Lan

    Version: 3.1.1 Connecting To CBEH Through LAN When the CBEH and host computer (PC) is connected with local area network (LAN) and you do not know the CBEH expansion board’s network address (IP), you can execute the Ether_Config software and use the following method to connect to the...
  • Page 17 If you already know the CBEH expansion board’s network address and the address matches the domain it is in, you can use the following method to connect the CBEH expansion board: ① Select Internet for Attached Media.
  • Page 18: Ip Address Setting

    Note 1. If you want to use this method to connect a PC and the CBEH in different domains, then that CBEH’s Remote Config. Enabled option (please refer to the explanations in 3.1.2) must first be checked. 2. When the CBEH module is behind a firewall, you must first open the firewall’s port 111 to perform remote configuration setting.
  • Page 19: Operation Mode Setting

    Port1 is fixed to be used for the FATEK Server can be used for the editing of ladder programs or the accessing of data. Port2 is used to support Modbus/TCP or FATEK client mode.
  • Page 20: Port Mapping

    3.1.5 Port Mapping When the operation mode of Port2 is set as Modbus/Fatek client mode in the basic settings page, an extra port mapping tab will appear. The following screen will appear after clicking the tab with the mouse:...
  • Page 21 There is a “Group Mode” combo list providing the “Group Mode” selection, its meaning is as follows:  Consecutive Station No.: Consecutive station number. When the Group Size is specified, its contents will be set to a fixed network address and continuous station numbers, as shown in the figure below: ...
  • Page 22: Service Ports

    3.1.6 Service Ports When the CBEH expansion board is working under TCP or UDP server mode, the external service ports must be set so that the external client workstations can send service requests according to the set service port numbers.
  • Page 23: External Servers

    Taipei GMT + 08:00, which means that the time zone of Taipei is Greenwich Standard Time + 8 hours. SMTP Server: The CBEH expansion board provides Email sending function; to use this function, the working address of the messenger server must be filled into the IP(URL) field.
  • Page 24  IP (URL): Service center’s IP address or domain name. DNS Server: Domain Name Server. When the CBEH’s external server IP address is filled in with the domain name format, it will require the use of external domain name query services. To use this service, the user must first fill in the data of the following fields;...
  • Page 25: Offline Configuration Setting

    3.1.9 Offline Configuration Setting In addition to connecting to CBEH and directly editing its configuration settings, the Ether_cfg software also provides an offline mode configuration editing function. By using this function, the user can first perform the CBEH configuration content editing...
  • Page 26: Setting Cbeh Through Web Browsers

    Open the web browser and enter CBEH’s network address in the web address column to get the login web page. As shown in the example below, when the IP address of the CBEH to be connected is 192.168.2.32, then in the web browser, enter:...
  • Page 27: System Page

    3.2.1 System Page The system page provides related setting and control for CBEH’s basic configuration, external services, and real-time monitoring etc. for the user; the user can understand the entire system page’s environment and architecture from the figure below.
  • Page 28: Ip Address Setting

    CBEH expansion board ⑥ Undo Restore the most recently applied settings ⑦ Update Settings To PLC Updates all of the modified content onto the CBEH expansion board ⑧ Reload Settings From PLC Discard the edited content and read the CBEH expansion board’s setting again...
  • Page 29 2. DHCP: Dynamic acquisition. User does not need to set the network, mask and gateway address; usable address will be acquired from the DHCP server. 3. By PLC: The CBEH module acquires the network address from the PLC’s register (Please refer to the descriptions in Chapter 2).
  • Page 30: Operation Mode Setting (Port2 Setting)

    3.2.3 Operation Mode Setting (Port2 Setting) Port1 is fixed and used for the FATEK Server, Port2 is used to support Modbus/TCP or FATEK client mode. To set Port2 mode, click on the Port2 setting page and you will see the following screen:...
  • Page 31: Port Mapping

    3.2.5 Port Mapping When the operation mode in the basic settings page is set as Modbus/Fatek client mode, an extra port mapping page will appear. The following screen will appear after clicking it with the mouse: When setting is required, users can enter the mapping data in the New/Edit-Port Mapping fields.
  • Page 32: Service Port

    The service ports must first be set before the server function of this expansion board can operate; the external client-ends will use this service port to send connection requests to the CBEH module and so the messages can be received by this expansion board.
  • Page 33: Password

    Password protection: To set the password, click the Set Password setting page, and the following window will appear: According to operation privilege differences, the CBEH module divides the password section into User password and System password. To enter an operation page, the user password or system password must be entered in order to log in;...
  • Page 34: External Servers

    3.2.8 External Servers The CBEH expansion board provides some functions that require external services; to use these functions, click the “External Servers” setting page, and the following screen will appear: DNS Server: Domain name service server. Just like the primary DNS and secondary DNS set on the PC.
  • Page 35 SVC IP(URL): Service center’s network address or domain name address  SVC Port: Service center port number. SMTP Server: The CBEH expansion board provides Email sending function; to use this function, just enter the send server’s IP address or domain name into the SMTP Server field: ...
  • Page 36: Chapter 4 Customized Web Page Design

    “Easy Web Designer” software. Login page style The webpage login page provided by the FBs-CBEH series expansion board is as shown in the figure below; the indicators specified in the figure are parts where the style can be changed.
  • Page 37 If you want to change the setting described above, please follow the following steps to perform the setting: Step 1, open Easy Web Designer, and double click on “Page Style Setting” on the created project. Step 2, after double clicking, the style setting window will appear, click the “login page”...
  • Page 38 Operation-page style The webpage operation-page provided by the FBs-CBEH series expansion board is as shown in the figure below; the data specified in the figure are parts where the style can be changed. ① Page title: The title text displayed on the web browser.
  • Page 39  Page title: The title text displayed on the web browser.  Company title: The title text displayed on top of the login screen. When operating, users can enter the string they want to set directly in the field mentioned above, or click the Load Built-in style button on top to apply it directly. The default style is selected from default styles provided for the three languages i.e.
  • Page 40: Adding Menus

    4.2 Adding Menus The operation methodology of the customized webpage uses the Multi-level Menu navigation method. Through this method, complicated control operation and contents can be categorized into groups with a systematic and intuitive method to display and further achieving the goal of controlling. The figure below is an example of a user page.
  • Page 41: Add Contents

    The Menu Caption in the add new menu setting window is the menu item text in the web page, and the Description part is only a comment in the Easy Web Designer. After filling out the Menu Caption content value, just press OK. As shown in the figure below, the first level menu item is added into the operation menu.
  • Page 42 The adding method of control contents is to click on the created menu; when the menu item is clicked, the “ Add Content” function button will appear on the toolbar. When this toolbar button is pressed the add new content function window will appear;...
  • Page 43  Button Function Description Used to display and control the on/off state of a contact point. Sample Screenshot Setting Method Content Type: Select “Button”. Title String: The title description of this button, such as the text displayed in the Sample Screenshot “Example-Button M0 Switch”. Reference No.: The reference number of contact point to be monitoring.
  • Page 45  Value Function Description Used to display and control the contents of the register Sample Screenshot Setting Method Content Type: Select “Value”. Title String: The title description of this Value item, such as the text displayed in the Sample Screenshot “Example-D0 Status”. Reference No.: The reference number of the register to be controlled.
  • Page 46  Value Button Function Description Used to display and control the contents of a register; it uses two buttons to modified the value of register. For each press of button, the register’s value will be increased or decreased by an amount. Sample Screenshot Setting Method Content Type: Select “Value Button”.
  • Page 47 Step/Set Value: The fixed value, set value, add value, subtract value, add subtract value all use this value as their setting. Max.: Set this value to restrict the maximum value can be set to the register. Min.: Set this value to restrict the minimum value can be set to the register. Decimal Point: Adds a decimal point symbol to the value displayed;...
  • Page 48 “Seq” List item number. “Value”: The value of register to be mapped. “String”: The string that mapped to the value in value field. Read Only: If this item is checked, this control item only has the display function; the data content can not be changed. ...
  • Page 49  Image Function Description The function to add images into the web page. Sample Screenshot Setting Method Content Type: Select “Image”. Title String: The title description of this control item, such as the text displayed in the Sample Screenshot “Example-Image”; displays below the image. Image Source: Select the file path or image URL of the picture to display in the web page.
  • Page 50  Video Function Description Use this function to embed an internet video for playback in the web page. It can be used as an application for machine operation demonstration. Sample Screenshot Setting Method Content Type: Select “Video”. Title String: The title description of this video item, such as the text displayed in the Sample Screenshot “Example-Youtube Video”, displays below the Youtube video.
  • Page 51 ○ . Click share button. ○ 2 . Click Embed button. ○ 3 . This section will appear after “Embed” button is depressed. Copy the text in this section. ○ 4 . Paste the copied text into “Video Embed Code” field to finish the embed code entry.
  • Page 52: Sending User's Webpage To Cbeh

    Before start to transfer the webpage contents, the Web Page Transfer window will appear. Please fill in the IP address of the FBs-CBEH series expansion board for downloading in the “Target IP”, and enter the correct System Password in the...
  • Page 53 “Password” field, and then press the Start Download button to execute the download. Step 3, confirm the sending progress. While downloading the current transfer progress will be shown; it is used to confirm whether the transfer is executing normally. When the transfer is complete, the hint message window “File Transfer Done”...
  • Page 54: Chapter 5 Sending Emails, Email To Sms

    Chapter 5 Sending Emails, Email to SMS In terms of the maintenance immediacy, the FBs-CBEH series expansion board provides the Email sending function. When special situations occurred on the workstation, an Email can be sent to notify the maintenance personnel by activating the Email send command code.
  • Page 55 How To Send Ordinary Emails Step 1, confirm the FBs-CBEH series expansion board’s configuration setting. Before sending Emails, the SMTP Server address must be filled in the IP (URL) field. Attention: Generally, SMTP Server does not need security check. When you realized...
  • Page 56 The “Email Configuration transfer” window will appear at this time; in the “Target IP” field, fill in the IP address of the FBs-CBEH series expansion board to download the information, then confirm that the correct password is entered in the “Password”...
  • Page 57 After completing the steps mentioned above, every time X0 changes from 0 to 1, and when D3962 is 0, it will receive the Email sent by the FBs-CBEH series expansion board; How to use Email to SMS function Step 1, confirm the FBs-CBEH series expansion board’s configuration setting.
  • Page 58 The “Email Configuration transfer” window will appear at this time; in the “Target IP” field, fill in the IP address of the FBs-CBEH series expansion board to download the configuration, then confirm that the correct password is entered in the “Password”...
  • Page 59 D3961~D3963, please refer to the detailed descriptions in Chapter 2. After completing the steps mentioned above, every time X0 changes from 0 to 1, and when D3962 is 0, the mobile phone will receive the SMS sent by the FBs-CBEH series expansion board.
  • Page 60: Chapter 6 Internet Clock Synchronization

    The steps to enable the CBEH internet clock synchronization function through the Ether_Config software are as follows: ① Move the mouse cursor to the line that includes the CBEH expansion board, double-click it or click the Properties… button to enter configuration setting.
  • Page 61: Synchronization Of Real Time Clock With Network Time

    The figure below depicts the relation between the CBEH time register, PLC’s internal special register and the RTC, the user only needs to move the contents of the CBEH time register to the special register within the PLC and use M1952 to control the time synchronization:...
  • Page 62: Sample Application

    6.3 Sample Application The CBEH module reads the standard time from the internet time server once every 10 minutes. Each time when receives a new data, it will increment the value of D3960 flag register and simultaneously update the contents of other calendar registers.
  • Page 63: Chapter 7 Monitoring Plc's Internal Status Using The Cbeh System Webpage

    Chapter 7 Monitoring PLC’s Internal Status Using The CBEH System Webpage The CBEH expansion board provides the function to monitor the status of the PLC with web browser. To use this function, open a web browser and connect to the...
  • Page 64: Modifying And Deleting Monitoring Points

    Decimal), positive integer (Unsigned Decimal) or Hexadecimal. When the new point is added, the newly added data can be seen in the Status Monitoring field, as shown in the figure below: You can also notice that the communication signal on the top-right of the webpage will start to flicker, this means that the communication status with the PLC is normal: 7.2 Modifying and Deleting Monitoring Points To modify a monitoring point, click the...
  • Page 65: Modify The Value Of Monitoring Point

    7.3 Modify the Value of Monitoring Point To control the monitoring point content, first move the mouse cursor to the Value field of the point you want to control and click the left button. The following pop-up window will appear: Here different pop-up windows will appear according to the data type and display formats;...
  • Page 66: Chapter 8 Active Call Back

    The application architecture of active call back is as shown in the figure below; it uses one computer to execute the SVC software as the maintenance center. When a workstation equipped with the FBs-CBEH series module executes active call back (○ it will send a connection request (○...
  • Page 67: Guest List

     IP: The network address of the workstation requesting connection.  S/N: The factory serial number of the FBs-CBEH series equipped by the workstation requesting the connection.  Comment: The text description information of the corresponding remote workstation, such as company name and machine model number etc.
  • Page 68: Active Call Back Application Example

    Step 2, FBs-CBEH series expansion board configuration setting On the FBs-CBEH series remote site that you want to execute active call back, its Service Call Back Server configuration contents must be the same as the maintenance center in order to ensure the communication between the workstation and the maintenance center.
  • Page 69 active call back action. When X0 is pressed, the active call back command code register D3950 will be set to 3359H, which will execute the active call back. In addition, the status of register D3951 can be used to monitor the operation execution of the call back.
  • Page 70: Chapter 9 Cbeh Firmware Update

    Chapter 9 CBEH Firmware Update When a new version of the CBEH module firmware is released, the user can choose whether to update it according to their needs. If update is needed, users can go to FATEK’s official website to download the image file of the new version, and use the ether_cfg software tool to perform the update.
  • Page 71 Note: The file extension of the firmware file is *.os. ⑥ Press the OK button. ⑦ The software will display the CBEH’s current firmware version alongside the firmware version selected by the user, and ask the user whether to update. If you are sure you want to update, press the Yes button to directly start the update operation.

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