[Rich Ex]

Mikhail ,
Thats brilliant thank you .

I have written a stand alone program that now gets the RS232 data from the device and writes it into a text file like ‘mydata.txt’, its simple the text file just shows a single number like 22.3

Could I not just write a formula to read this ‘mydata.txt’ file into RapidScada and then return this number from the file or am I going about it the wrong way?

Maybe theres a driver to read a .txt file already ?

Thanks
Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi Mikhail,
Thank you for the information .

Is there an existing example to give me an idea of where to start will a dll for the COM port .

Thanks
Richard

[Rich Ex]

Mikhail ,

Thank you for the information .

Kind Regards
Richard

[Rich Ex]

Hi Mikhail ,
Is it not possible to send a signal from my formula then ?
My time code works I just need know the command to send ‘1’ to the o/p address I spoke about .

Thanks
Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi Mikhail ,
seems my automatic part does not work .
I can send the command ok in Communicator .
Here is my o/p channel

https://ibb.co/TvZGQy5

The formula I use to reset the unit at 56 seconds past midnight , I tested this on a dummy calculated channel and it works .

I know modified it to work on the o/p channel and it compiles ok but does not sent the reset signal on the o/p channel
https://ibb.co/qWvJMGx
I think i did something wrong around the Cmd command , can you help please .

Kind regards
Rich

[Rich Ex]

Mikhail ,

Thanks it was my template as you suggested…. I had added the reset channel as a coil , but not under the ‘command’ tab . I have deleted this and added as a new command ‘1’ and now it works ..
Thanks as always

Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi Mikhail ,
Screens shots of the resource manager of the VM .
Sorted for highest CPU usage .

https://ibb.co/DDX21R3

and

https://ibb.co/mGxGjLj

Thanks

Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi Mikhail ,
About the scan times , my system is on a VM with a single CPU , this is showing high CPU usage 85-100% , could this be causing my delays ? …… what number of CPU’s would you recommend on a Windows VM machine , I have 9 Scada slaves each giving me 4 inputs .

Thanks
Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi Mikhail ,

Yes I’m seeing that now .
Nothing on the line is happening quickly so I may need to just look at extending the pulse from the sensors ……

Thank you for your help .
Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi MikHail ,
First , sorry I should have read the document before asking the question about polling times !

Right here’s the screen shot of the data
https://ibb.co/QCxrFJR

Thanks
Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi Mikhail

Screenshot
https://ibb.co/JjpsCfN

Can you explain the Timeout; Delay; Time ; Period; entries please .

thanks as always Rich

[Rich Ex]

Dear Mikhail
Can you give me some more detail please .
My pulse is less than 1 second , where do I set up the polling rate ?

Thank You
Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi , the single pulse comes from a sensor at the begging of a process line .
The single pulse only feeds the Scada unit which sends it to the Rapid Scada program.

Thanks
Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi Mikhail ,
So looking at a custom report I would need to start by looking at the MinDataRep file for Chart and Chartpro , I will share with the forum if I can make it work .

Thanks
Rich

[Rich Ex]

Hi Mikhail ,
You are correct Chart Plugin was deactivated , not sure why, I had not changed it ?
It is now showing the channel numbers in the Excel report , thank you so much.

Final point with this question I see you can make custom report requests with chart Pro can you have it so the Excel files shows the channel name or is it like the on screen ‘data’ field and just shows the channel number .

Thanks again
Rich

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