Update from SD Card with PLC Browser Commands \ (Online Mode)ΒΆ

To start a firmware update from the PLC-Browser, it is necessary to be logged in into the CPU with your PC.

  1. Open the PLC-Browser from the Resources tab (see above).

  2. Insert the SD card with the correctly set SDCARD.INI file and corresponding firmware files on it into the PLC (see Storing the Firmware to the SD card Firmware \ Update and The Command file SDCARD.INI The SD Memory Card in the AC500) for details.

  3. Write the requested command into the PLC-Browser and press enter (see update variants in Updating the Firmware of AC500 Devices from the SD card Firmware \ Update).

  4. The corresponding command is now activated, for example sdfirm 2_5_1 command.

  5. If the firmware update was successful, DONE is shown in the PLC-Browser.

  6. Remove the SD card and restart the CPU to load the new firmware.

Attention

:strong:The SD card has to be removed before restart!

To get information about the firmware version of the CPU enter the command rtsinfo into the PLC-Browser.

Only for AC500-eCo PM5x4 modules with firmware version < 2.x: First the CPU firmware has to be updated from V1.3.x to V2.0.x. After doing the update the CPU has to be restarted.

Then any module can be updated as described in this chapter!