# 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:** ![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…

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