cloud HMI like Weintek ?

I know of the Weintek product mTV_SVR, but does anyone know of other makers of a cloud HMI, where the operator uses a tablet PC or iPad on WiFi ?

The Weintek has let me down, in that you cannot have "animated" lines, that you can change colour, blink, etc., all the sort of things you would need for a plant/process mimic.....

TIA

Hello,

Certainly not trying to solve Weintek problems. But for you, can you simulate lines with thin rectangles that appear as lines and allow the animations you need?

Do you mean something like this:

Opto22 Groov

http://groov.com/

Operating from a tablet can be done with just about any HMI software that will run on Windows 7/8/10 using a tablet with Windows. These tablets are quite abundant starting at about $90. The advantage to this is that if the software doesn't have the features you need, it is not necessary to ditch the hardware, just use another software package.

Another a little trick I just used last week was connecting a micro PC with Windows 10 onto the same network as the PLC, then put an AdvancedHMI application on it. Using my iPhone I did a remote desktop to it. It was a big help to the maintenance guy that was down in a machine with no line of sight to any of the HMIs on the machine. It's not the cleanest method, but it worked in a pinch and only took me a few minutes to setup.

I liked my Nexus 7 for messing around with Red Lion stuff on WiFi getting into the web browser and pushing buttons to control things. Yep, Android got caught in a loop with Chrome and just kept firing the last button press. Only way to stop was to close the browser. Fortunately, that was just a test rig on my desk.