I have moved to Perspective from a SCADA system that was able to play the alarm dialer message through the PC speakers. From what I can see that same option is not available through Ignition. My best compromise would be to tie the pipeline status and message text to an alarm or some popup driven by a script within the pipeline. I'm having a hard time finding the pipeline properties that would allow access to that information. Can anyone shed some light on how I might approach this?
Thank you.
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What version are you on?
I personally haven't used it yet but depending on the browser being used to access Perspective, the Audio component may work:
Alternatively this thread from Jordan on earlier versions has a different approach: [feature-12986, 15300]Unacknowledged Alarm Sound - #3 by JordanCClark
As for displaying status of a pipeline I assume you are mainly wanting to know if an alarm is active, you could potentially pull values from a pipeline but live values like that are available on alarms via the Tag Alarm Properties | Ignition User Manual.
Very generally for how to approach sending simple messages to users, you could create a Session custom property that is bound to one or more of the alarm metric properties, and when appropriate that session property being true could cause events to occur (popups, sound script, etc)
Hey Ster,
I've dealt with a similar issue before, unfortunately, pipeline status isn’t exposed directly for live display like tag values. What worked for us was using Script Blocks within the pipeline to update memory tags or session properties with status info. You can then bind those to UI elements or use them to trigger popups or sounds. It’s a bit of a workaround, butit gets the job done for notifying operators. If needed, I can share a quick example.
Thank you very much. I can pursue that idea. I just wanted some direction in case I was missing a easy solution. It sounds like I wasn't and like most things Perspective, we must rely on a "work around".
- Sterling.