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Support Questions / Re: Modbus RTU - KOYO PLC

« on: April 12, 2016, 05:13:36 AM »

Yup, several months after our replies above Archie kindly added in the ability to directly read/write float registers over modbus RTU. That Archie is a machine!

This is one of the reasons I wish there was an up to date detailed manual somewhere with thorough instructions for each driver and element, he adds so many little features like this so often it can be hard to keep track of what's supported where these days

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Open Discussion / Re: What would you like to see in the next major release?

« on: October 01, 2015, 10:21:11 PM »

oh wow I just saw the price for the upgrade service - more than fair! You could charge twice that and it'd still be a deal

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Open Discussion / Re: What would you like to see in the next major release?

« on: October 01, 2015, 09:42:58 PM »

In order to meet in the middle, a couple weeks ago a new service was added the web site for us to upgrade projects for a very small fee.

Sounds like a good compromise, I'll most likely be taking advantage of that service soon!

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Open Discussion / Re: What would you like to see in the next major release?

« on: October 01, 2015, 08:21:04 PM »

After my own frustrations and seeing the same from other posters here I think the single easiest thing you could do that would make users much happier long term is some sort of reliable upgrade path with every new release.

For instance, every new release can reliably update your old project files to the latest version.

Currently nearly every new release/bugfix requires completely dumping your old project and starting completely fresh. For me with a smaller setup that's still 5 hours of work all over again just to get a few bugfixes, for other people with large industrial setups I wouldn't be surprised if they would have to spend 100 hours redoing their entire project because the latest release isn't upgradable or compatible. I can't be the only person to be slightly frustrated when I finish building a complex panel just to see a day later a new release is put out that addresses some bugs I've been seeing, but it involves redoing it all from scratch or search and replacing hundreds of files.

Anyway, I'm sure that's way easier said than done. And even if not it's still totally free so we can't complain!

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Support Questions / Re: V3.99 Release Notes

« on: September 07, 2015, 03:00:06 AM »

The version number change from the 3.98 series to 3.99 indicates there are some changes that can break an existing application.

Right after I redo a whole hmi from scratch in 3.98t : (

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Support Questions / Re: Odd issue - Button colors changing after build

« on: September 02, 2015, 10:04:27 PM »

using absolute values such as 128, 128, 255

Not using highlight color on these buttons, however highlight color does work properly on other buttons. The strange thing is the colors stay correct in the built programs, it's just the visual studio UI where they turn incorrect. And now launching VS again, it doesn't do it anymore, seems intermittent. Thinking it's probably a VS bug

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Support Questions / Odd issue - Button colors changing after build

« on: September 02, 2015, 01:02:45 AM »

So I've had this issue with two different versions of VS (2013 and 2015 community) and two different versions of AHMI - starting to think I'm doing something wrong.

When using the Basic Button item and changing the colors it works as expected as seen here - http://i.imgur.com/E9YsLwg.png

However after building the solution they all change to the same color as seen here - http://i.imgur.com/TAoqgFa.png

In the actual built program, even after I do another build when the colors have changed, the colors are correct in the actual built program, it seems to only change them in Visual Studio's UI.

Is this a bug in VS or am I doing something wrong?

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Open Discussion / Re: Vote For Your Favorite

« on: August 21, 2015, 07:43:34 PM »

My vote sent AdvancedHMI to the lead. See if I can vote from home on a different computer & skew the result.

i realized by accident it lets you vote multiple times on purpose. I think it let me vote 3 times before saying "you've reached your vote limit"

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Open Discussion / Re: AdvancedHMI on Webpage

« on: August 20, 2015, 10:57:56 PM »

I've been running web-accessible advancedhmi for home automation with a lot of success recently, but I went about it another way.

I used Guacamole, a linux application that provides a remote desktop/vnc web interface. it runs on a linux system, and connects to a computer(s) of your choice (your pc running advancedhmi) via vnc/rdp.

Then it presents that vnc session via a nice html5 web page. It seemed a bit daunting at first to install but went pretty well and has been working great. The advantage is I can now just go to the url on my phone and control my house on the go.

you can see a picture here - http://i.imgur.com/6w4YdT3.png

You go to the url, log in with a username/password you set within guacamole, and it brings you right to the fullscreen hmi interface. the performance/response is native and you'd never know it was a vnc connection unless I said something. works great!

here's the software - http://guac-dev.org/

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Open Discussion / Re: Vote For Your Favorite

« on: August 20, 2015, 09:23:03 PM »

voted for advancedhmi : )

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Support Questions / Re: Enable / Disable Data logging

« on: August 18, 2015, 08:55:32 AM »

To fix the "Object reference not set" problem, edit DataSubscriber2.vb and go to line 272 and change the subroutine to this:


    Protected Overridable Sub SubscribedItemsChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs)
        If Not Me.DesignMode Then
            If SubScriptions IsNot Nothing Then
                SubScriptions.UnsubscribeAll()
            End If
            SubscribeToCommDriver()
        End If
    End Sub

Just a heads up for anyone wondering, this still needs to be done in the latest release, it wasn't added in. But after you do it the collection windows works great

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Open Discussion / Re: Merry Xmas and a prosperous New Year

« on: December 25, 2014, 10:54:53 AM »

Merry Xmas archie - hope you're taking a well deserved break!

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Support Questions / Re: Looking for Example code for using ModbusRTU serial

« on: December 10, 2014, 06:42:17 PM »

Keep the modbusrtu driver baud rate at 38400, I had the same weird lagging of updates when I tried to increase it. at 38400, you can drop the polloverride down to 50 (50ms, so 20 updates a second) and it's enough bandwidth to poll a few hundred meters and stuff. At 38400 and a polloverride of 50 I have a ton of meters and buttons and stuff and it's working great

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Support Questions / Re: new features

« on: December 04, 2014, 05:47:14 AM »

How do you find the patience to keep adding this stuff? You're like a wizard

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Feature Request / Re: Idea for a new somewhat complicated control

« on: November 12, 2014, 02:19:02 PM »

this is a good example of an add-in I'd gladly pay $20 or more for, even if it was super simple.

I'm currently using the free version of daqfactory to graph temperature, it would be amazing if I could instead do it right in the HMI (it's annoying to have to switch programs on my touchscreen just to check on temp trends)

Even if it was just super simple with a scale you set and a time window, no history or logging or anything, just so you can see trends like this - http://i.imgur.com/FedJFk2.png