Step 7: Read status LED indicators of S7-300 CPU

Update: See https://github.com/planken/Step7/blob/ma... for the latest source code.

This function obtains the status of the CPU LED indicators, for visualization on an HMI, for example. In this function block, we only output the status for system fault and a combined bus fault (for any interface), but you can easily change that.

We will use SFC51 RDSYSST (Reading a System Status List or Partial List) with SSL_ID 0x19 to obtain the status of all LEDs at once. The header will contain the record length and the number of records that were returned. The number of records that are returned is CPU dependent. This particular FB I have used without modifications in the S7-300 CPUs 315, 316, 317, 318 and 319.

Once the data has been obtained we copy it to a buffer for analysis, since it is not retained between reads.

After the data has been copied, it is a matter of looping through the records to pick out the ones that are of interest. For this, you need to know the LED IDs (also documented in the FB):

0x01 SF
0x02 INTF
0x03 EXTF
0x04 RUN
0x05 STOP
0x06 FRCE
0x07 CRST
0x08 BAT
0x09 USR
0x0A USR1
0x0B BUS1F
0x0C BUS2F
0x0D REDF
0x0E MSTR
0x0F RACK0
0x10 RACK1
0x11 RACK2

0x12 IFM1F
0x13 IFM2F
0x14 BUS3F
0x15 MAINT
0x16 DC24V
0x17 BUS5F
0x80 IF (init failure)
0x81 UF (user failure)
0x82 MF (monitoring failure)
0x83 CF (communication failure)
0x84 TF (task failure)
0xEC APPL_STATE_RED
0xED APPL_STATE_GREEN

In this example, I use the system fault (SF) status and combine any of the bus faults (BUS1F, BUS2F, BUS3F). Once you look at the code, it is easy to see how that can be adapted to suit your need.

The SFC51 SZL_HEADER output is a structure consisting of the record length and the number of records. The FB has 10 data records of 4 bytes each (for the LED ID, on status and flash status).