DATA Copying from HMI sing pendrive

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Dear Community, please help me on how can data be collected by connecting USBDrive on HMI’s USB slot. How do the connections need to be made? We’re using X20CP1685 PLC and T80 HMI(6PPT80.156B-16A).
What are the various setups and settings required for HMI setup and configuration?

Please advise me on some options like ‘Allow Access to USB memory via network’ , ‘Allow access to user memory via network’ in HMI setup and option to enable ‘Share USB memory’ on HMI configuration.

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Hi,

if you want to use a usb stick to read / write data from the PLC, you have to enable “access usb memory via network” and to set a password in the T80 panel.
Please see here for details.

→ This settings expose the USB stick as a CIFS network share, and the PLC then can access this share when setting up a suitable file device inside the PLC code (e.g. by using FileIO DevLink, or by configuration - depends on your use-case).

→ like described in the above linked documentation of the T80 settings, to access the shared network device, you have to use:

  • the right name for the CIFS network share like documented - for example, a stick plugged to IF3 of the T80 will be exposed as CIFS share under the name “usbshare”
  • “ppt80-user” as username or the CIFS share (this can’t be changed)
  • the password you’ve set

As additional info: the “user memory” is a storage location inside the T80 panel. You can access this memory also via a network share.

Best regards!

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Hi Kezia, have you find solution for your topic? Can you update us?