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Does INSYS Powerline GP act as a HomePlug Ethernet Adapter? #139

Closed maslanz closed 3 years ago

maslanz commented 3 years ago

Hi Everyone,

I have a INSYS Powerline GP as i mentioned in the title.

So I am doing the following steps:

The QCA7000 device listed in the output, represents the chipset inside the INSYS Powerline GP.

So along with these, I was waiting for one more device to be listed, if INSYS behaves like an Ethernet Adapter and i connected them truly.

I'm waiting for your help. Thank you and sorry for the English.

n1000 commented 3 years ago

Hi @maslanz ,

Have you tried appending "all" to the command? This will broadcast the version request:

plctool -r all

Example output:

$ plctool -i em1 -r all
em1 FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Request Version Information
em1 84:C9:B2:78:0A:EC INT6400 INT6000-MAC-4-2-4203-04-4235-20100716-FINAL-B
em1 84:C9:B2:78:0B:E6 INT6400 INT6000-MAC-4-2-4203-04-4235-20100716-FINAL-B

You can also check the network status of the locally connected (via Ethernet) device using the -m option:

plctool -i XXX -m

This will query the local device and display all of the PLC devices that are on the same PLC network.

maslanz commented 3 years ago

Hi @n1000,

Thank you for your response.

I tried the commands you suggested and my outputs are as follows.

plctool -i em1 -r all em1 FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Request Version Information em1 00:05:B6:03:3C:52 QCA7000 MAC-QCA7000-1.1.0.727-02-20130826-FINAL

plctool -i em1 -m em1 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Fetch Network Information

So according the these outputs i think a plc network is not established.

Can I do that with a tool commands? or is the physical connection between INSYS and PLC board wrong?

maslanz commented 3 years ago

Hi again @n1000,

Thanks for your helps. I can see the device now. I formed a network with the custom NMK and it works.

n1000 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the update, good to hear it worked. Closing this issue.