Device Log

The “Device Messages” panel displays recorded events of a selected device or application. The messages contain, for example, events when starting and stopping the device, events when downloading a (boot) application or log entries from certain components, e.g., I/O drivers.

“Device Messages” Panel
“Device Messages” Panel
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Description

1

Offline Recording (only relevant for Safety versions of CODESYS)

Records device actions referring to connections of the device

No device actions are recorded

2

UTC Time

Displays the timestamp of the runtime system

Converts the PC’s local time based on time zones

3

Filter by the severity of the messages:

Warnings, errors, exception(s), information, debug message(s)

Click the filter to enable (blue background) and click again to disable.

4

Filter by Runtime component affected

5

Logger

Selection list of all available recordings
The <Default Logger> setting is “PlcLog” for CODESYS.

6

Updates the message list

Exports the content of the list to an XML file

Filename and storage directory can be selected

Imports a message list from an XML file

7

List of device messages