I’m running into an issue on my laptop with PLCnext Engineer not being able to find Controllers or Profinet devices.
I can use Names+ and find everything on the network on the same machine.
I’ve tried the following with now luck.
If the online-device editor is not able to find any controller
or PROFINET device, it might be caused by a corrupt
npcap installation. In this case, proceed as follows:
– Check the status by entering the following command
in the command line shell: „sc query npcap“
– If anything other than “4 RUNNING“ is displayed in
the line “STATE“, the configuration has to be
changed.
– To do this, enter the command
“sc config npcap start=auto“ followed by the command
“sc start npcap“.
If there are still no online devices found, Npcap has to
be reinstalled. To do this, proceed as follows:
– Uninstall PLCnext Engineer.
– Uninstall the Npcap software.
– Install PLCnext Engineer again
PLCnext Engineer 2022.3 build 5.2.221.0
Windows 10 Pro