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Open Discussion / Bacnet and Advanced HMI
« on: December 12, 2015, 02:41:47 PM »
Has anyone used Advance HMI with any type of bacnet system
Darrell
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Open Discussion / Re: What would you like to see in the next major release?
« on: November 27, 2015, 03:38:07 PM »
Siemens TCP/IP Ethernet driver ,many Seimens Simatic S7-1200 plc's on industrial sites lately . would be nice to build HMI's for these systems
Darrell
Darrell
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Open Discussion / Re: Timeouts for WRITE connections
« on: October 29, 2015, 12:30:03 PM »
I used 2 buttons and a textbox , would have preferred to use only one button and have the text change as to what state its in , but don't how,
but this works fine for me.
Code for connect button to enable subscriptions
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button6.Click
EthernetIPforPLCSLCMicroCom1.DisableSubscriptions = "False"
TextBox1.Text = EthernetIPforPLCSLCMicroCom1.IPAddress
End Sub
Code for connect button to disable subscriptions
Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button7.Click
EthernetIPforPLCSLCMicroCom1.DisableSubscriptions = "True"
TextBox1.Text = EthernetIPforPLCSLCMicroCom1.IPAddress
End Sub
but this works fine for me.
Code for connect button to enable subscriptions
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button6.Click
EthernetIPforPLCSLCMicroCom1.DisableSubscriptions = "False"
TextBox1.Text = EthernetIPforPLCSLCMicroCom1.IPAddress
End Sub
Code for connect button to disable subscriptions
Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button7.Click
EthernetIPforPLCSLCMicroCom1.DisableSubscriptions = "True"
TextBox1.Text = EthernetIPforPLCSLCMicroCom1.IPAddress
End Sub
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Open Discussion / Re: Timeouts for WRITE connections
« on: October 18, 2015, 10:20:29 AM »
Most of the HMI's I've built lately , I've added a button to connect/disconnect on each screen , each screen has a timer counting from the plc so I know I have communications. Seems to give me a lot less grief on busy networks . How would I implement this so that when the connect button is clicked or when comms is established , a message pops up to say comms established and then disappears , if comms are lost another message would automatically pop up saying so.
Darrell
Darrell
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Support Questions / Re: Disable Subscriptions
« on: October 10, 2015, 07:36:31 PM »
Since my VB programming skills are very limited , I do very little read/writes through code , those screens using code have worked good for me so far , I highly suspect that part of my problem may be that I was using a win 7 laptop with only 4 gig of ram and 4 different RS500 and 1 RS500 programs open and online at the same time plus RSLinx running. Company laptop desperately needs upgrading.
I had great success with Advance HMI so far, and V399a has been the best so far, You can build very impressive HMI's with little or no VB experience . Your last expansion packs proved to be very useful.
Thank you and Keep up the good work
Darrell
I had great success with Advance HMI so far, and V399a has been the best so far, You can build very impressive HMI's with little or no VB experience . Your last expansion packs proved to be very useful.
Thank you and Keep up the good work
Darrell
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Feature Request / A Few requests
« on: October 10, 2015, 05:32:56 PM »
BevelButtonDisplay
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value to write
keypad
Alternate Text
PLC Address Blink
Toggle on time and then toggle itselft off
Square Illuninated Button
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value to write
keypad
Alternate Text
PLC Address Blink
Basic Indicator
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PLC Address Blink
Pilot Light
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PLC Address Blink
DigitalPanelMeter
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Value Scale Factor to be able to divide by a 1 , 10 , 100 etc
Darrell
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value to write
keypad
Alternate Text
PLC Address Blink
Toggle on time and then toggle itselft off
Square Illuninated Button
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value to write
keypad
Alternate Text
PLC Address Blink
Basic Indicator
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PLC Address Blink
Pilot Light
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PLC Address Blink
DigitalPanelMeter
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Value Scale Factor to be able to divide by a 1 , 10 , 100 etc
Darrell
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Support Questions / Three Position Switch
« on: October 10, 2015, 05:29:09 PM »
Three Position Switch
When screen is first loaded , the switch will go to its proper position but if accidentally click the switch to another position it will stay and not go back to it proper position.
Darrell
When screen is first loaded , the switch will go to its proper position but if accidentally click the switch to another position it will stay and not go back to it proper position.
Darrell
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Support Questions / Disable Subscriptions
« on: October 10, 2015, 05:27:43 PM »
Disable Subscriptions
Works the first time the screen is displayed, if you switch to another screen and then back to that screen it starts polling automatically . I see in the code that it does what its programmed to do , but really don't know how to fix it.
All my HMI;s I now add a Connect Button and a Disconnect Button the to each screen , In some cases it seems to give the screen time to load and display with fewer problems. Also Ive found that if a plc goes offline for some reason , the screen may become unresponsive and I'll have to restart the HMI. I can click disconnect and after a few seconds connect , sometimes I can prevent it from locking up and having to restart the HMI.
I have noticed this problem especially with more than one Allen Bradley Micrologix Controllers on a screen , add a compact or control Logix to the mix and you loose one off them doesn't seem to really affect it
Darrell
Works the first time the screen is displayed, if you switch to another screen and then back to that screen it starts polling automatically . I see in the code that it does what its programmed to do , but really don't know how to fix it.
All my HMI;s I now add a Connect Button and a Disconnect Button the to each screen , In some cases it seems to give the screen time to load and display with fewer problems. Also Ive found that if a plc goes offline for some reason , the screen may become unresponsive and I'll have to restart the HMI. I can click disconnect and after a few seconds connect , sometimes I can prevent it from locking up and having to restart the HMI.
I have noticed this problem especially with more than one Allen Bradley Micrologix Controllers on a screen , add a compact or control Logix to the mix and you loose one off them doesn't seem to really affect it
Darrell
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Feature Request / BevelButtonDisplay add a value to write PLC Property
« on: September 27, 2015, 09:51:51 PM »
any chance this could be added in one of your next minor revisions
BevelButtonDisplay - a value to write and keypad to PLC Properties
Darrell
BevelButtonDisplay - a value to write and keypad to PLC Properties
Darrell
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Open Discussion / Re: What would you like to see in the next major release?
« on: September 27, 2015, 09:34:12 PM »
A component that would show a burner flame and the length of the flame or intensity controlled by an analog value or just on off
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Tag Database
« on: September 17, 2015, 09:21:22 PM »
Just throwing this out there
I was on a job a few years ago , where I saw a HMI screen that someone had programmed and all the tags where read from a simple excel spreadsheet , could this be done with ADV HMI , from what I remember it looked very easy to change addresses etc.
Darrell
I was on a job a few years ago , where I saw a HMI screen that someone had programmed and all the tags where read from a simple excel spreadsheet , could this be done with ADV HMI , from what I remember it looked very easy to change addresses etc.
Darrell
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Open Discussion / Compact Logix message instructions
« on: September 07, 2015, 10:03:05 PM »
I see this in a compact logix program , several MSG instructions , 12 msg isnt. all programed the same way, communicating with 4 Micro Logix 1400's . I suspect that this maybe sometimes causing slow comms over this Ethernet network. There is 1 compact Logix and 4 Micrologix 1400 and panelview plus Whats you opinion on this , I really don't think a msg have to fire this fast.
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Support Questions / Re: V3.99 Release Notes
« on: September 04, 2015, 09:56:08 PM »
tried to add purchased controls and get these errors
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Feature Request / Re: Keypad Read button
« on: September 03, 2015, 09:50:10 AM »
Thanks I'll check it out
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Feature Request / Re: Keypad Read button
« on: September 02, 2015, 11:14:31 PM »
Did notice that with a timer on a micrologix 1400 the accumulated value is shown on the keypad from a timer address t4:5.ACC for instance and the t4:5.PRE also shows the accumulated value and not the preset,
I really like this control , I use it a lot , keep up the good work,
Darrell
I really like this control , I use it a lot , keep up the good work,
Darrell