Simulator tags

Does anyone have a list of the items provided by the Simulator device, what range they work in, etc?

Here is a list of addresses and what they do:

ReadOnly - static values that do not change for read only purpose
ReadOnlyBoolean1 - false
ReadOnlyBoolean2 - true
ReadOnlyShort1 - 1
ReadOnlyShort2 - 2
ReadOnlyInteger1 - 1
ReadOnlyInteger2 - 2
ReadOnlyLong1 - 1
ReadOnlyLong2 - 2
ReadOnlyFloat1 - 1.1
ReadOnlyFloat2 - 1.2
ReadOnlyDouble1 - 1.1
ReadOnlyDouble2 - 1.2
ReadOnlyString1 - “ABCDEFG”
ReadOnlyString2 - “ZYXWVUT”

Writeable - static values that you can read/write to, inital values below
WriteableBoolean1 - false
WriteableBoolean2 - false
WriteableShort1 - 0
WriteableShort2 - 0
WriteableInteger1 - 0
WriteableInteger2 - 0
WriteableLong1 - 0
WriteableLong2 - 0
WriteableFloat1 - 0
WriteableFloat2 - 0
WriteableDouble1 - 0
WriteableDouble2 - 0
WriteableString1 - “”
WriteableString2 - “”

Random - Random values updating at some rate, they follow Java Random(rate) - rate is the seed
RandomBoolean1 - 10 sec
RandomShort1 - 5 sec
RandomInteger1 - 1 sec
RandomLong1 - 2 sec
RandomFloat1 - 10 sec
RandomDouble1 - 10 sec

Sine - Different sine waves with frequency, amplitude and offset (that order below)
Sine1 - 0.1 100.0 0.0
Sine2 - 0.01 50.0 -25.0
Sine3 - 0.02 10.0 10.0
Sine4 - 0.04 100.0 0.0
Sine5 - 0.08 100.0 0.0

Ramp - Ramp signals starting from 0 going up to some value at a rate
Ramp1 - 0 - 100 @ 10 ms
Ramp2 - 25 - 75 @ 100 ms
Ramp3 - 0 - 100 @ 50 ms
Ramp4 - 0 - 100 @ 25 ms
Ramp5 - 0 - 100 @ 12.5 ms

Realistic Realistic values
Realistic1 - -50 - 50 @ 500 ms
Realistic2 - -50 - 50 @ 1000 ms
Realistic3 - -50 - 50 @ 1500 ms
Realistic4 - -50 - 50 @ 2000 ms
Realistic5 - -50 - 50 @ 2500 ms

Hope this helps.

Hi everyone,

I’ve updated to Ignition 7.3.2 today and ever since my Random tags do not update/change their values. I mean this group:
Random - Random values updating at some rate, they follow Java Random(rate) - rate is the seed

They all are stuck in “false”. I’ve also notice that now the OPC item path requires the substring “_Meta:”

Does anyone know what’s going on/ I’m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

The driver changed a little bit in 7.3 at the last minute. The item paths and the folder names are different, which is why you see the _Meta: at the beginning of the path when you drag it in.

As for the randoms… yeah I see that they’re not quite working. I’ll try and get that fixed in the next release.

The random tags have been fixed for 7.3.3.