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Support Questions / Visual Studio Beginner Resources

« on: January 23, 2018, 09:42:00 PM »

Hello all.

I haven't sat down and written any text based code since i was in university 15 years ago, and my experience then was mostly in Basic and Pascal.  Visual Studio is a mystery to me.  Just trying to do simple things like using internal variables to show/hide buttons is making me pull my hair out.

So do you guys know some good tutorials to get used to the layout and structure?

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Open Discussion / AdvancedHMI Arduino and OPC

« on: July 18, 2017, 11:25:39 PM »

Hello guys,
I have been doing a bit of digging and not found a whole lot on this topic, mostly google turns up RS232 stuff when asked the title.

The guys over here,  https://www.st4makers.com/opc-server-for-arduino, have built a nice little OPC server for Arduino, after a little playing around I am turning the onboard LED on/off from the HMI screen.

Not much to setting it up either, just follow his install instructions.  I loaded the UNOled sketch from the arduino IDE. Then I used dOPC to scan and make sure the Arduino server was running and get the proper server name.  Pop that into advancedHMI with the proper variable name on the button and up and running.

Hope this helps a few other guys. 

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Support Questions / SLC 5/02

« on: April 16, 2017, 03:12:31 PM »

Hello guys,

Trying to re-purpose a SLC 5/02 for a brewery project and am not having much luck getting communication.  I'm using the 1747-UIC cable, here are the settings I am using in RS Linx:

Device Name:  AB_DF1-1
Device:  1770-KF2/1785-KE/SCANport
Comm Port:3
Station Number: 0
Parity: None
Error Checking: CRC
Stop Bits: 1
Protocol:  Full Duplex

The UIC is set to output DH485 to the PLC

In AHMI I'm using the SerialDF1forPLC5, manually set the baud rate to 19200(also tried auto), changed it to com3, and left all other settings at default.

Set up a simple button to activate B3:0/1 and turn on an output light but nothing.

Any help would be much appreciated.