I used the “messaging system”
You have to have a gateway message handler script.
Then you will need a client that has speakers you can play the audio payload with:
It will need a “client message handler script”:
Then to utilize the system on the tags that you want to configure the alarms for:
You will want to configure the Active and Cleared both. The tags will of course have to have an alarm configured in the tag properties nothing out of the ordinary for that but it does need an alarm.
For the clear:
There are some other general notes.In my receive alarm scripts I use the com port literally as a low voltage switch that engages a “Touch To Talk” microphone on a ken-wood brand base station.
I had to engineer a very custom cable to get the audio out the 3 mm headphone jack to the audio line of the base station.
Your mileage may vary on your purpose and intent. It does WORK though.
What you get from this are System event triggered audible alarms. It has been working in my application for several years now. I haven’t spent anymore time looking for a “cleaner solution” because this one works for us. By now I would imagine there would be some module that could be purchase that could do this out the box maybe but The way we use it works and I maintain it.
I do also have a little script running on the PC that once a day deletes all the temp .WAV files but that isn’t done with Ignition.