Lookout direct alarm dialout

[JohnM]

I have a customner that is wanting to add an alarm call out to his Lookout Direct HMI package. I have done this with Win911 and Scadalarm on Wonderware. Just wondering if anyone has any experience with doing this on a Lookout package and what software they used.

Thanks

JPM

 

[Webhead]

Well you could always use an autodialer. Some of them are cheaper then both paging packages. Can you still manually configure Win911 for DDE links in an HMI? It's been a long time since I messed with it.

Webhead

 

[JohnM]

It's also been a long time since I messed with Win911. Scadalarm looks at the Wonderware tag database, since it is a wonderware product.

The customer wants to do what Scadalarm does, with voice and text messaging, to both cell phones and pagers. I was hoping someone had used something with Lookout so I could find out about the gotcha's before giving a recommendation on which product to use.

JPM

 

[spacejunk]

JPM,
Regret that I only have peripheral experience with Lookout/LookoutDirect, but if you don't get the info you need from this thread or your post on mrplc.com, you might want to try posting on the following forums:

- http://forums.ni.com/ni/board?board.id=190
which is National Instruments Lookout forum.

- http://forum1.automationdirect.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
which is Automation Direct's customer forum

Good luck.

 

[Webhead]

I don't know if you have tried this yet. You might want to get a hold of an engineer at Automation Direct and see what they can tell you about paging software. They might even have something or be able to point you in the right direction.

 

[Tark]

SCADAlarm is not limited to working with Wonderware applications. SCADAlarm can work with SuiteLink, DDE, OPC and MX protocols. I would think that LookoutDirect can act as a DDE server, which would allow you to use SCADAlarm.

 

[micham]

You may use U.C.ME-OPC alarm notification software product. It is easy to use and offers good functionality. It uses OPC (or DDE) to connect to any OPC server or SCADA/HMI software that supports OPC or DDE server functionality.

Alerts may be sent via: Email, SMS, Phone(Voice), Fax, Multimedia and WAP. It may also be used to analyze your alarms and understand the root cause of the alarms.

You may also send SMS commands from your cell phone to U.C.ME-OPC to change or query tag values(analog/digital).

See www.controlsee.com . A fully functional evaluation version can be downloaded.