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Support Questions / Re: AB MicroLogix 1400 Tag Addresses Not Working

« on: November 05, 2024, 06:32:20 PM »

Can you share a screenshot of your digital display properties?  It's been a minute since I've connected to a SLC, but the tag syntax should be something like  C5:0/ACC or maybe C5:0.ACC

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Support Questions / Re: Single dynamic Form for multiple (mostly) identical machines

« on: August 02, 2024, 08:34:07 PM »

Never mind!   

I figured it out while fiddling with it throughout the day. It isn't... elegant. But it works and doesn't throw any runtime errors. And that's good enough for me, for the time being.

I used some case switching and went with a Public Sub NewForm.Update_Form() and Me.Update_Form() route, where many OnClicked events set the called_value then call the method. I'll give sanitizing the code a go tomorrow at work and post here.

Nice!  While  you might not consider your solution elegant, chrome don't get ya home!

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Application Showcase / That time I ran AdvancedHMI on a PanelView Plus

« on: June 19, 2024, 02:05:07 PM »

The early versions of AdvancedHMI used the compact version of the .NET framework.  This means that it should run on Windows CE.  Back in 2013 I thought, maybe it would run on a PanelView Plus?  So I tried it, because, why not?  I found my picture of it, sorry for the poor quality.

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Support Questions / Re: Reading all PLC Tags (not data but literal string values for tag names)

« on: June 07, 2024, 12:20:38 PM »

You can probably only do this with AB, not sure about Omron.  See if this post helps:

https://www.advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=3266.msg18519#msg18519

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Support Questions / Re: Only reading 1 array register

« on: May 07, 2024, 10:06:57 AM »

Thanks for the update FlippinBits.

This is a very interesting issue. There have been issues in v32+ where some corruption of the tag database occurs.  The result ends up being you cannot upload the program from the controller.  Only recourse is to download.  We've seen this a couple of times, luckily for us, it's just machines we are building, not in production environment.

Seems like a similar issue.  Curious, are these tags UDT members?  I think Rockwell has opened up some UDT editing (renaming maybe?) online, there are technotes about corruption happening in when doing this in some versions.  What firmware version are you using?

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Open Discussion / Re: Powershell and AdvancedHMI

« on: May 02, 2024, 06:24:00 PM »

That's a good idea, I hadn't thought about doing it that way.

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Open Discussion / Where is admin posts

« on: April 11, 2024, 09:50:42 AM »

What's up with all these posts like:

Where is admin ?
[some other words]

Thank

Seems highly likely the people are bots or spammers but they don't seem to be posting anything else.  Should I just delete them?  Seems like Archie has been.  Not sure what the angle is.  The recent one joined March 17th, made the first post over night.  Odd.

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Open Discussion / Re: adding page to mainform

« on: January 04, 2024, 12:51:21 PM »

See if my post in this thread helps:

https://www.advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=3274.0

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Support Questions / Re: Please Help a newbie get started - i'm lost

« on: December 22, 2023, 10:56:06 AM »

Start with a fresh copy of AdvancedHMI, go to Build > Build Solution.  Open MainForm.vb, in the very top of the Toolbox, you'll see AdvancedHMI Components.  Drag/drop FormChangeButton onto the main form.  In the properties (far right side of visual studio), find the property FormToOpen, select Page2.  Run the application and press the button

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Open Discussion / Re: All I want for this Christmas

« on: December 03, 2023, 03:56:21 PM »

dmroeder, there is a few more posts in this forum that suggest the same, like these 2:

  - https://www.advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=2568.msg18010#msg18010
  - https://www.advancedhmi.com/forum/index.php?topic=2563.msg16237#msg16237

I did bother contributing to your pylogix project since it's open sourced and people can find it useful.

I guess I missed those threads and never made the connection.  Thanks for the contributions!

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Open Discussion / Re: All I want for this Christmas

« on: December 03, 2023, 11:38:24 AM »

bachphi, that's nice.

Could you post any more info or screenshots (like setup flow text file and a screenshot)?

I have a repository on GitHub which showcases Node-RED and pylogix / pycomm3 libraries, which can be seen here:

   https://github.com/GitHubDragonFly/Node-RED_PLC_Example

There is also a link to this post so anybody looking for more information can get it here.

Wat!? You're GitHubDragonFly?  I did not know that.

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Support Questions / Re: Auto Start?

« on: October 27, 2023, 03:23:14 PM »

I expect this has already been answered somewhere, I just can't find it.  I have developed my project and it works well.  However, I'd rather not ask the operators to click the "start button".  Is there a way to have the project start automatically upon Windows bootup?

Thanx

Just put a shortcut to the executable in the windows startup folder.

• Windows Key + R
  
• type shell:startup
  
• Press Enter
  

This will get you to the startup folder

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Open Discussion / Re: Anyone had any luck getting MQTT to work within AdvancedHMI?

« on: October 06, 2023, 12:45:59 AM »

If it wasn't obvious to you, then there are definitely others, you should post your solution.  I'm definitely curious.

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Support Questions / Re: List of tags...

« on: September 29, 2023, 10:48:28 AM »

The tag "MyFloat" is in fact just "MyFloat".  The tag name is not "MyFloat[100]".  You need to look at some additional properties of each tag that is returned.

Code: [Select]

Dim TagList() As AdvancedHMI.Drivers.CLXTag = EthernetIPforCLXCom1.GetTagList
MessageBox.Show(TagList(0).ArrayElements1)

The CIP object that returns the tag database contains other things as well.  In your example, __DEFVAL has to do with AOI definitions. 

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Open Discussion / Re: ControlLogix Local Tags

« on: September 27, 2023, 05:42:34 PM »

It is literally PROGRAM, always.  so PROGRAM:"ProgramName".TagName (no quotes).  You don't use routine name, local tags aren't part of a routine, they're part of a program.