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It seems the request is too shorts. The IODReadReqHeader should contain 8 padding bytes after the TargetARUUID which seem to be missing in screenshot. That could be cause for completely missing reaction of the device. Benja_m, hello again. I was not able to work on this issue in the last week or so...

It seems the request is too shorts. The IODReadReqHeader should contain 8 padding bytes after the TargetARUUID which seem to be missing in screenshot. That could be cause for completely missing reaction of the device. Benja_m, hello again. I was not able to work on this issue in the last week or so...

Hello PROFINET Forum experts. I have a customer who intends to use a PROFINET controller capable DCS (not a Siemens DCS) to monitor some PROFINET APL devices (pressure transmitters, etc.), in a pretty much plain-vanilla PROFINET over APL application. The devices are of course PA Profile compliant. ...

Hello PROFINET Forum experts. I have a customer who intends to use a PROFINET controller capable DCS (not a Siemens DCS) to monitor some PROFINET APL devices (pressure transmitters, etc.), in a pretty much plain-vanilla PROFINET over APL application. The devices are of course PA Profile compliant. B...

Raik.Zachmann wrote: ↑20 Jan 2026, 07:43 Dear Alfredo,

thanks for bringing this up. We put a comment on these lines in the current PI-Review and asked for the expected behavior.

Best regards,
Raik

Thank you so much for the follow-up, and for your patience with my inquires.

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Raik.Zachmann wrote: ↑05 Nov 2025, 14:15
Hello Alfredo,
the to be used test tool for IRT (SPIRTA) only supports the PCI card CP1616.

Best regards,
Raik

Thanks so very much for this confirmation, Raik.

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olliew wrote: ↑25 Jun 2024, 11:48 Did you try Request Access?

Yes, I did. And it takes be back to the PROFINET Community Stack page.
It keeps me going around this cycle.