Siemens: inputs not working

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When inputs from Factory I/O don't work you probably need to make sure the input addresses used by Factory I/O are not shared with physical inputs.

Input signals with intermittent / blinking behavior is usually caused by interference between physical inputs of the PLC with inputs from Factory I/O sharing the same address. Values transmitted by Factory I/O are being overwritten by the values of the I/O modules as their state is copied to the CPU process image, which will cause blinking/the impression that inputs from Factory I/O don't work.

You can solve this in two ways:

• Use different addresses
  You can either use different input addresses in Factory I/O by changing the Offset in the driver configuration window:
  
  

  

  Or change the addresses used by input modules, leaving addresses near 0 free to be used by Factory I/O:
  

  

• Set the module PI to none
  

  

You should do this for every input module of the PLC, either digital or analog.

You can also refer to step-by-step guides on how to connect Factory I/O to various Siemens PLCs.