# Alarms questions

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarms-questions/64620>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [September 28, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarms-questions/64620 "2022-09-28T20:45:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Billy\_Elliott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@Billy\_Elliott](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Billy_Elliott)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarms-questions/64620/1 "2022-09-28T20:45:19Z")

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I have a few stupid questions, I want to trigger a sound control in Vision that when a new Alarm hits an alarm table it sets off the sound control. I had a script that would toggle a memory tag that the sound control monitored and would use the invoke later to turn the tag back off 6 seconds later. That tested fine, but could never get it to work in a pipeline script. I tired being very specific about the tag since the pipeline works at the gateway level, but never could get it to write to my tag. Any suggestions on how I might do this?

I also have an alarm on a System Tag on the device status so if a device disconnects then it shows up in the alarm table component, but it doesn’t seem to trigger the pipeline? I have the pipeline specified in the alarm. I tried creating a memory tag to watch the system tag and again it shows up in the alarm table, but again not triggering my alarm pipeline? I assume something must be wrong with it, but I have other tags using that pipeline and it works fine.

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**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarms-questions/64620/2 "2022-09-28T21:50:34Z")

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I would use an alarm listener, as shown in this thread,

> [@New Alarm Alert as a Popup](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/new-alarm-alert-as-a-popup/15828):
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> Hello All. I am new to the Ignition and I have a scenario where I would need to show a popup window with a Message saying that there is a new active unack alarm. Let me tell what I am trying in brief. Getting the alarm count in the timer script and trying to do a popup based on the difference in number of alarms. The script seems to work in Script Console but it doesnt work when it is inside action performed of Timer script. Here is the sample code: import system global lastcount alarms = s…