FTV SE alarm acknowledge to PLC

dginbuffalo · Apr 17, 2015

Hello all. I am still finding a few gremlins in my RSView32 to FTV SE upgrade. I just found that i need to send a signal back to the PLC to unlatch alarms when the acknowledge button (checkmark)is hit on the HMI alarm banner. I can't find a system acknowledge tag that i could use to trigger a macro to write to a PLC tag. Anyone know the easiest way? Thanks in advance.

seth350 · Apr 17, 2015

Have you checked in your Alarm Setup in FTV? There are tag connections there for the Acknowledge button.

dginbuffalo · Apr 17, 2015

seth350 said:
Have you checked in your Alarm Setup in FTV? There are tag connections there for the Acknowledge button.

I don't see anything available for the banner. On the alarm summary screen i see there is an acknowledge button that invokes the summary acknowledge.

seth350 · Apr 17, 2015

I didn't realize you could use the Invoke command in FTV?
I was talking about in your project tree, down towards the bottom "Alarm Setup".
Where you set your triggers.

dginbuffalo · Apr 17, 2015

seth350 said:
I didn't realize you could use the Invoke command in FTV?
I was talking about in your project tree, down towards the bottom "Alarm Setup".
Where you set your triggers.

the only "alarm setup" i see is for HMI tag alarms. I am using the alarm server which has alarm and event setup. I can't see anything in that setup that points at a command to run when the ack or ack all buttons are pressed.

I may just end up copying the external buttons and adding them to the screen near the banner.

seth350 · Apr 17, 2015

Oh ok, sorry man I was on a different page than you. I am not sure how that is setup.

dginbuffalo · Apr 17, 2015

seth350 said:
Oh ok, sorry man I was on a different page than you. I am not sure how that is setup.

No worries-thanks anyways!

dginbuffalo · Apr 18, 2015

Bump... ;-)

rdrast · Apr 20, 2015

The FTAE Alarms should automatically send back the Acknowledge or the Reset commands if they are programmed into the actual ALMD/ALMA instructions. Even so though, I usually just put some logic around each ALMD/ALMA instruction so that if the alarm was Acked, it sets the OperReset, and I set the alarms to require acknowledgement on the banner.

dginbuffalo · Apr 20, 2015

rdrast said:
The FTAE Alarms should automatically send back the Acknowledge or the Reset commands if they are programmed into the actual ALMD/ALMA instructions. Even so though, I usually just put some logic around each ALMD/ALMA instruction so that if the alarm was Acked, it sets the OperReset, and I set the alarms to require acknowledgement on the banner.

Thanks-unfortunately, this program didn't use ALMD/ALMA instructions. It was an old RSView 32 convert that was using HMI alarm tags and alarm timers that latched in and were reset by a PV pushbutton.

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