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Support Questions / Making Pilot Light color brighter

« on: December 07, 2015, 11:57:18 AM »

Hello

I am using a few pilot lights to monitor the state of the the inputs and outputs of my PLC. I've kept the 'LightColor' as well as the 'LightColorOff' properties to the same color. This way, when the pilot turn turns on, the same color gets brighter. However, I am noticing that a lot of times it is hard to make out if the light is on or off because the difference in the brightness is not that much (especially for the yellow color). I understand that I can set the 'LightColorOff' as white, however, I would prefer that I keep them the same color.

So my question is that can I make the colors more or less bright ? I tried looking into the PilotLight.vb file in the hope of finding a color property defined there, but unfortunately could not find that.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Aviraj

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Support Questions / Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow

« on: December 07, 2015, 10:20:16 AM »

Hello

So I have a bunch on Pilot Lights connected to various inputs and outputs of a PLC, and I am just noticing that after about 2 mins, when the HMI starts running, The Pilot Lights keep working, but they start showing the message "Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow". And then sometimes the messages disappear themselves, and then re-appear, other times, they stay on. Both the input and output pilot lights show these messages !

Thanks in advance for any help

Aviraj

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Support Questions / 'Illegal Function' and 'Illegal Data Address' messages

« on: December 02, 2015, 09:09:33 AM »

Hi

So I have an HMI with a bunch of Pilot Lights connect to check the status of some inputs and outputs on the PLC. I am pretty sure that the PLC addresses are correct because I initially tested them on a similar PLC. So now when I run the HMI, I see a message saying 'Illegal Function' on the pilot lights connected to the outputs and 'Illegal Data Address' on the pilot lights connected to the inputs.

The input addresses are like 12051, 12054, 12055 ... and the output addresses are 02053, 02054, 02055 ...., and these were tested to work on another similar PLC (DirectLogic 06 DO-06DD1)

I haven't really come across these message ever before !

Thanks in advance for the help

Aviraj

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Support Questions / Turning on a PLC at a fixed time of the day

« on: November 30, 2015, 02:20:59 PM »

Hi

This might be an extremely straightforward question for a lot of you, but somehow, I cant seem to get around it. I have a few Momentary Buttons on my HMI that are used to turn on/off certain PLCs mnually. What I am looking to do is turn on/off these PLCs at the fixed time of the day automatically!

I have the DateTime control on the Form and I can successfully extract the time out of it. I can also check if it is the correct time to turn on the PLCs or not.

What I am having trouble with is that how do I send that on/off message to the PLC through the momentary button. I initially thought that the Momentary Button would have a 'value' property which I can set to True or False. However, it does not have that property.

Would greatly appreciate any assistance in solving this issue.

Thanks in advance

Aviraj

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Support Questions / Direct Logic 06 Input naming

« on: November 22, 2015, 06:45:12 PM »

Hi

I am designing a HMI and the controls are being controlled by AutomationDirect's Direct Logic 06 PLC. The input naming on the layout sheets has been done like X5, X11, X3 etc. which are the physical input names. By the way, I did not program the PLC and I am only making the HMI for it. When I enter these addresses into the PLCAddressValue field, I get a message complaining that input addresses should be 4 to 11 characters long. I cant seem to figure out how to translate that address to something that will be accepted by the Advanced HMI.

Any help from anyone will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Aviraj

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Support Questions / AdvancedHMI.exe not working

« on: November 16, 2015, 12:30:00 PM »

Hello

I created an HMI on a Windows 7 machine and verified the functioning. I copied the AdvancedHMI.exe over to a Windows XP machine. I installed .NET 4.0 on the XP machine. When I try running the .exe file, I get an error (shown in the attached picture). The Windows XP machine does not have Visual Studio installed on it.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Aviraj

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Support Questions / PilotLight linked to a PLC

« on: November 10, 2015, 12:36:33 PM »

Hi

I am extremely new to Advanced HMI and was building up an application. I was looking to tie a few Pilot Lights to the PLC inputs to see if a particular input was turned on or not. I am seeing that the Pilot Light tool properties do not have the "PLC Properties" in them. Is there a way that I can still tie the Pilot Lights to the actual PLC Inputs ? If not is there any work around to it ?

Thanks a lot in advance

Aviraj

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Support Questions / Advanced HMI on Raspberry Pi

« on: October 19, 2015, 09:26:43 AM »

Hi

I was looking to run Advanced HMI on a Raspberry Pi, however, I would just like to control the GPIO states of the Pi with it. I am not looking to control any PLCs with it, but just the GPIOs of the Pi on which the Advanced HMI is running. I was following the link: http://advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=938.0 and made some contributions as well. However, right now, I am at a kind of a dead end where the GPIOs are not changing states when I try to change them. The details on the solution that has been implemented is on this post: http://advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=932.0 .

Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.

Aviraj

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Support Questions / Visual Basic Coding

« on: September 11, 2015, 03:38:16 PM »

This might actually be an extremely easy question for a majority of you here, but I haven't really coded much with VB so I am not quite aware. Here is what I am trying to establish:

I have an Advanced HMI form with some objects that are connected to different PLCs and different addresses. I also have a Date and Time Display object there. What I want to do is turn on/off a PLC function (related to some object) based purely on the date and time.

I know I need to add code to the DateTime1 object (or maybe somewhere else) but what do I exactly do ? For the beginning, lets just assume I want to turn on a pilot light at a particular time and then turn it off at some other time.

Thanks in advance for the help 

Aviraj

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Support Questions / Controlling Raspberry Pi using AHMI

« on: September 07, 2015, 11:12:25 PM »

Hi

I am extremely new to Advanced HMI and I am running it on a Windows 7 PC. I wanted to know if it is possible to control a Raspberry Pi using the Advanced HMI on my PC, such as turning on/off LEDs connected to the RPi or other things like that. I am aware that AHMI can be run on a RPi to control a PLC, however, can it control a RPi while running on a Windows computer/laptop ?

Thanks in advance for the responses.