# Display Alarm Pipeline status to operator

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [May 30, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-alarm-pipeline-status-to-operator/106866 "2025-05-30T17:37:42Z")\
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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:

> **[Perspective - Audio | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/appendix/components/perspective-components/perspective-display-palette/perspective-audio)**
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> An audio component that Designers can use to play and pause sound clips in the browser.

Alternatively this thread from Jordan on earlier versions has a different approach: [[feature-12986, 15300]Unacknowledged Alarm Sound - #3 by JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-12986-15300-unacknowledged-alarm-sound/25460/3)

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](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/platform/tags/tag-properties/tag-alarm-properties#runtime-alarm-metric-properties).

Very generally for how to approach sending simple messages to users, you could create a [Session custom property](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/perspective/perspective-sessions/session-properties) 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)

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