Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you find the videos useful. The website will also have an entire list of posts and videos. accautomation.ca/series/c-more-hmi-series-panel/ Best regards, Garry
Is there any way to make alarm types? Like, have certain alarms show up on one screen and others on another, or certain alarms displaying different colors?
It sounds like you also want an event with the alarm. Select "Event Manager Database" from the main menu | Database. You can then add an Event with a variety of actions like Alarm, Sound, Email, Message Box, Tag, Screen Change, Backlight, etc. I hope this helps you out. Regards, Garry
Hi Noah, Great question. You can remove the grey HMI alarm bar in the event manager window. Under the action tab, you can unselect "Display" in the alarm tab". I would recommend still showing this in the alarm objects. I hope this helps you out. Regards, Garry
Also, do you know if the alarms are retentive through a power cycle of the HMI or must you write the alarm to the SD card to view later if power is turned off? Not seeing anything in the manual about how the HMI battery is used except for a low battery event that can be used, but strange there isn't anything in the Hardware Manual that discusses the battery.
Hi PaganSkier, Yes, I believe that the alarms are memory retentive. They have a time and date stamp to indicate when they occurred. There is a history of all the alarms as well. Regards, Garry
Couple questions - is there a way to password protect the CLEAR ALL button? I don't want the operator to be able to clear the alarm list. What is the reason for using the CALL ALARM SCREEN object instead of just using a Screen Change Push Button that opens the Alarm List screen? I've run the simulator, and the displayed Alarm List is different using the two approaches. Thanks!
Hi PaganSkier, To password-protect the clear button, I use the Call Alarm Screen and password-protect it under the password tab. Create another page using the Alarm List. Under the Display tab, ensure that the clear button is not enabled. Both methods will display the alarms. In the Alarm List, you can specify how this will look, and the buttons enabled. I hope this helps you out. Regards, Garry
When configuring an analog alarm range, can you reference another tag for the value or does it need to be a constant? I want the user to be able to alter the alarm range with the HMI.
Hi Kyle, The event manager alarm will only allow a constant min and max values to be entered. If you want to allow the operator to change the alarm range then use the bit value. In the PLC you can do the logic to turn on a bit when the values entered are within the range. I hope this helps you out. Regards, Garry
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This was a great tutorial. Thanks for helping me setup alarms on my first C-More HMI project.
Hi matt cj8
Thanks for the comment. I'm glad it helped you out.
Garry
These videos are helping out so much. I needed to set up an alarm and this video just saved the day!!
Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you find the videos useful.
The website will also have an entire list of posts and videos.
accautomation.ca/series/c-more-hmi-series-panel/
Best regards,
Garry
Managed to do it thanks to this video!
Good to here that this video helped you out. Thanks for the comment.
Garry
Is there any way to make alarm types? Like, have certain alarms show up on one screen and others on another, or certain alarms displaying different colors?
It sounds like you also want an event with the alarm. Select "Event Manager Database" from the main menu | Database.
You can then add an Event with a variety of actions like Alarm, Sound, Email, Message Box, Tag, Screen Change, Backlight, etc.
I hope this helps you out.
Regards,
Garry
is there a way to get rid of the grey HMI alarm bar??
Hi Noah,
Great question. You can remove the grey HMI alarm bar in the event manager window. Under the action tab, you can unselect "Display" in the alarm tab".
I would recommend still showing this in the alarm objects.
I hope this helps you out.
Regards,
Garry
Also, do you know if the alarms are retentive through a power cycle of the HMI or must you write the alarm to the SD card to view later if power is turned off? Not seeing anything in the manual about how the HMI battery is used except for a low battery event that can be used, but strange there isn't anything in the Hardware Manual that discusses the battery.
Hi PaganSkier,
Yes, I believe that the alarms are memory retentive. They have a time and date stamp to indicate when they occurred. There is a history of all the alarms as well.
Regards,
Garry
Couple questions - is there a way to password protect the CLEAR ALL button? I don't want the operator to be able to clear the alarm list.
What is the reason for using the CALL ALARM SCREEN object instead of just using a Screen Change Push Button that opens the Alarm List screen? I've run the simulator, and the displayed Alarm List is different using the two approaches. Thanks!
Hi PaganSkier,
To password-protect the clear button, I use the Call Alarm Screen and password-protect it under the password tab.
Create another page using the Alarm List. Under the Display tab, ensure that the clear button is not enabled.
Both methods will display the alarms. In the Alarm List, you can specify how this will look, and the buttons enabled.
I hope this helps you out.
Regards,
Garry
@@ACCautomation thanks - tinkering on Sunday, and I came up with the same approach.
When configuring an analog alarm range, can you reference another tag for the value or does it need to be a constant?
I want the user to be able to alter the alarm range with the HMI.
Hi Kyle,
The event manager alarm will only allow a constant min and max values to be entered. If you want to allow the operator to change the alarm range then use the bit value. In the PLC you can do the logic to turn on a bit when the values entered are within the range.
I hope this helps you out.
Regards,
Garry