How to create a timer tag?

[dano38291]

I took some of these suggestions for doing timer stuff in Ignition. Main idea is get system time and then use the secondsbetween expression.

It took me a while to get up to speed on python, you will have to rely on Python docs and outside tutorials as well.

Creating a Stopwatch inside Ignition

Hello So a Timer component cannot be used as Stopwatch since it drifts. I have Ignition collecting data from a Spraying Process and collecting data off a few scales. I don’t want my users to use a Physical Stop watch. I I guess I can look into hour meter functionality of Transaction Groups? Maybe I could do some scripting where I store a Started Timestamp then Every second look at Current Timestamp minus the Started Timestamp.(this shouldn’t cause issues?)

Also ignition Manual and Inductive U videos are super helpful.