After the activation of the license on the device, the license should be backed up so that it is available for a re-installation of the SD/OS image. |
A soft license can only be restored on the same Raspberry Pi and cannot be transferred to another. Alternatively, there is a possibility to use a dongle that can be used on any Raspberry Pi. This means you can simply move the USB dongle if your Raspberry Pi breaks, you upgrade to a Raspberry Pi 5, or if you have two Raspberry Pi controlled machines that you run only one at a time. |
There are two possibilities to do this:
If you use CODESYS >= 3.5SP13 you'll find the license backup file in: “c:\ProgramData\CODESYS\Licenses\license ticket number” (each ticket has an own directory)
for example: 0000000077754dd5.WibuCmRau 0000000077754dd5 is the hardware serial number of your Pi.
How to find the serial number of the connected Pi ( this is needed because you could only activate the license update to the correct PI – Serial number must fit)
See the screenshot - you could get the serial number of you Pi by the “Pi Update Tool”:
If you use an Image where another (incorrect) license was already active, please you must first delete the cmact_licenses directory by CODESYS file browser, then restart the plc, and then activate the license with the license file ...
As of SP13:
As of SP13, there is only one location where the License Manager is called. |
Up to SP13: