Over the last few weeks I’ve been on a journey trying to build skeuomorphic controls in Ignition that mimic as close as possible to the outlines of the physical controls that are supplied to me in the drawings from a client. The idea is to completely mimic local operator control panels, so that PLC…

Pretty. [image] peter: Making momentary controls in any HMI system is fraught with danger This can be mitigated by using the same protocols and techniques that PLC vendors use for wiring real buttons and switches via ethernet remote I/O. You can make Ignition look like such remote I/O with …

These look great! If you’re willing, they’d potentially make good Exchange resources. Or you could put the raw SVGs up on Github.

I’ll see about that after the talk I’m having tomorrow. I did this work in part to stretch my design skills, but also because I know my client has this genuine need. So up until now it is unpaid work. But if I get compensated for doing the design work, releasing it becomes a different conversatio…

We are shifting to ProfiNet for remote I/O (except for the EGD based I/O that is still hanging around), so unless you have a full ProfiNet simulator that can suck down the same GSMDL files as we use for our PLCs, then I’m afraid we are stuck with modified PLC code. But I still see the controls that…

[image] peter: We are shifting to ProfiNet for remote I/O Sigh. My condolences. (IMNSHO, that's not a wise decision.) [image] peter: have a full ProfiNet simulator Not going to happen. For both technical and commercial reasons: ProfiNet I/O uses bare Ethernet frames with a custo…

[image] pturmel: [image] peter: We are shifting to ProfiNet for remote I/O Sigh. My condolences. (IMNSHO, that's not a wise decision.) You should ask my colleague about his efforts to get a PN/PN coupler running. PN isn't our decision, we just run with what hardware we are given. A…

[image] peter: Are memory tags backed by by any sort of offline storage? Yes. Their state is saved in the internal DB and restored on startup. [image] peter: can’t simulate the actual I/O we are using Oh, I understand. That's one reason ProfiNet is a lame choice. My EtherNet/IP mod…

[image] pturmel: [image] peter: Are memory tags backed by by any sort of offline storage? Yes. Their state is saved in the internal DB and restored on startup. If only I knew where that was defined in the documentation! I'll also rationalize my choice of saving the state information …

[image] peter: If only I knew where that was defined in the documentation! Huh. I looked where I thought it would be and found nada. Looked some more and found nada. Ought to be here: https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Types+of+Tags#TypesofTags-MemoryTags

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