halverst
Member
I'm new to the forum and would like to say thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me. I'm relatively new to plcs but have a strong background in computers so I know what I want to do just not the best way to do it. So I apologize if this is a dumb question.
My set up:
I have a slc-500 in our waste water treatment plant and a newly installed control logix in our main building, along many others but the control logix is all I'm working with now. We use factorytalk as our hmi and a keps server to pass data from the different plcs to the factorytalk server. Rs linx is used to communicate between the factorytalk server and control logix.
My problem:
On our hmi screen there is a panel that displays a warning when a divert valve in the wwtp becomes activated. The keps server passes the tag value from the slc-500 to the factorytalk server. When the valve opens the panel becomes visible then goes invisible when the valve is closed. I would like to toggle a bool tag in the control logix when the panel becomes visible.Then use this bool as a trigger for output to a horn on the production floor.
I played around for awhile with animations in factorytalk to toggle this bit but couldn't find a way. Using a button I can but I want it to toggle automatically when the panel becomes visible.
I figure I can use a vba script to do this but I'm guessing there is a another way to accomplish this through factorytalk.
My set up:
I have a slc-500 in our waste water treatment plant and a newly installed control logix in our main building, along many others but the control logix is all I'm working with now. We use factorytalk as our hmi and a keps server to pass data from the different plcs to the factorytalk server. Rs linx is used to communicate between the factorytalk server and control logix.
My problem:
On our hmi screen there is a panel that displays a warning when a divert valve in the wwtp becomes activated. The keps server passes the tag value from the slc-500 to the factorytalk server. When the valve opens the panel becomes visible then goes invisible when the valve is closed. I would like to toggle a bool tag in the control logix when the panel becomes visible.Then use this bool as a trigger for output to a horn on the production floor.
I played around for awhile with animations in factorytalk to toggle this bit but couldn't find a way. Using a button I can but I want it to toggle automatically when the panel becomes visible.
I figure I can use a vba script to do this but I'm guessing there is a another way to accomplish this through factorytalk.