Setting up alarms

[drippygenius]

Hello,

First I just want to say I apologise if the answer to this question is incredibly obvious, I'm very new to VBA and to Visual Studio (although very familiar with software development and coding).

I would like to set up an alarm in AdvancedHMI, which will trigger an action - say an SMS or e-mail. For example, I have a Basic Indicator - how do I call a piece of code when this indicator turns to TRUE?

Secondary question, less important - my PLC holds alarms flags as an integer - is there a simple way to split this integer into the individal bits to display as Basic Indicators?

With many thanks in advance!

[Archie]

- Click on your BasicIndicator to select it
- At the top of the Properties Window is a small toolbar with a lightening bolt, click on that to see all of the events
- Go down to the SelectColorxChanged and double click
- This will take you back to the event handler in the code window to then do what you want

What PLC communcation driver are you using?

[drippygenius]

Ah great, thank you!

So is it ValueSelectColorxChanged under the Misc section?

How would this work for a numeric value, would I go to Misc > ValueChanged, and then add some code to evaluate the current figure? What would that look like?

I'm using the Modbus TCP driver.

[Archie]

The BasicIndicator does not have a ValueChanged event because there is no Value property. It only accepts boolean values for PLCAddressSelectColor2

In Modbus, you can address bits within words like this:  40001.0