Hello, it's me again !
I'm trying to use the LightColor controls to manage easily a lot of alarms... but finally it's behavior brings me some trouble... ^^
Here is what I am trying to do. I suppose that it could be a common way to manage alarms, thats why I'm writing here !
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- The Light Color value indicates if the Alarm is ON or OFF. (quite normal for now)
- While the Alarm is not Acknowledged, the Light Color blinks. => eye catching, user-friendly way to communicate !
- A press on the Light Color button acknowledges it : it stops blinking.
- Now, the complex but useful part : if the Alarm come back to FALSE, but still not acknowledged !
The logic behavior here is that the light goes back to its FALSE value, but continue blinking... but it's not possible.
The solution I though about is to put the value to TRUE (even if it's not) and change the color to White instead of Red.
But as the control is reading to the PLC to know its value, I suppose it won't work ..!
Conclusion => the LightColor blinks only if it's value is set to TRUE. (as it blinks from current value to False value). Could be very useful to have a blink mode also with a False value (why not the same as for the True value, and a trick with the colors could make the job). Or better : a second color "blink false".
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