scarm
Member
Hi guys,
I've been mulling over and failing at this for a while now, and I'm just stumped. I'm much more familiar with the A-B family, Wonderware, and Schneider as far as HMI goes. I have an iFix computer running iFix 5.0 with Desktop installed. I managed to get it reading AI blocks from a Micrologix using OPC via RSLinx, but I just can't figure out how to make an alarm for when there is a communications issue reading from the controller. Any advice here would be much appreciated.
I've been trying to use event action blocks with "ALARM = COMM" as IF statement, but I'm not very familiar with this, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. My next option was to capture the <tag>.A_OPCQUALITY = 'BAD' condition and somehow translate that to an alarm, but I thought there must be an easier way...
I've been mulling over and failing at this for a while now, and I'm just stumped. I'm much more familiar with the A-B family, Wonderware, and Schneider as far as HMI goes. I have an iFix computer running iFix 5.0 with Desktop installed. I managed to get it reading AI blocks from a Micrologix using OPC via RSLinx, but I just can't figure out how to make an alarm for when there is a communications issue reading from the controller. Any advice here would be much appreciated.
I've been trying to use event action blocks with "ALARM = COMM" as IF statement, but I'm not very familiar with this, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. My next option was to capture the <tag>.A_OPCQUALITY = 'BAD' condition and somehow translate that to an alarm, but I thought there must be an easier way...