Hi, I'm with CB Pacific, a distributor of yours in Kirkland Wa. We've come across a feature request from a customer that I'd like to share with Win-911.
It would be great to get feed back from the running Win911 app about whether it's in Running or Stanby mode and have that displayed back to a SCADA system.
The customer has built through iFIX VBA the ability to flip modes in Win911, but there is no confirmation or status that can be relayed back to Operators. I believe there was this ability in earlier versions of Win911 via pokes. It would be great if something like OPC/OPCUA could be used to set the status back in the SCADA system.
Hi Steven,
can you send me more info on how to capture the output of IsActive.exe and do something meaningful with it in my SCADA to display Status.
Steven Rivas, is this feature available with a WIN911 OPC-DA data source ?
If you can capture the output of the executable, you can store it as a Block in iFIX and then display it. I recently set this up for an InTouch system but I had to redirect the output to a text file and then read the contents of the file.
Hello Trevor,
Thank you for the feedback.
We have a cmd line executable called, isActive.exe, which will report back the current state of the WIN-911 system. You can use this executable with scripting to indicate the state of WIN-911 in your iFIX HMI. You can use this executable anywhere on the network, as long as it has access to the WIN-911 system.
If you can capture the output of the executable, you can store it as a Block in iFIX and then display it. I recently set this up for an InTouch system but I had to redirect the output to a text file and then read the contents of the file.
Does this sound like it'll work for you?
What would an ideal solution look like for you?
-Steven Rivas
Product Manager