I configerd alarm and event server. Everything seems ok except that when an alarm is triggered in the alarm summary page, no sound is activated
I found a solution from Rockwell as following
Both RSView32 and FactoryTalk View SE annunciate alarms and other .wav files locally on the server.
Therefore, some other method is required to sound an audible for operators working remotely at
a client terminal:
If an alarm is triggered.
Or
An event occur that requires attention.
The RSView32 Playwave Control ActiveX gives you the ability to play a .wav file on an RSView32 ADS
Client or a FactoryTalk View SE Display Client by setting a digital tag (either direct reference or HMI) from
one of the following:
Event Detector
Alarm bell
Controller Logic
Operation
The ActiveX control must be added to a running graphic display in order to function correctly. The
display settings can be configured to be cached, always updating and hidden by utilising the /ZA switch
on the display command so that at runtime, the PlayWave control display is not visible.
To play wave files, the control's property Activate needs to be bound to a tag.
When the value is greater than 0 the wave file is played.
When the value of the tag bound to the Activate property is 0, the wave file sound is stopped.
For example, a simple solution for a Client side alarm annunciation in FactoryTalk View SE would be to:
Add an HMI memory tag to the SE Database.
Tie this to the Activate property of the RSView32 Playwave Control ActiveX
Configure this to be the External Bell tag in the SE Alarm configuration for the required severity.
The control has three additional persistent properties:
WaveFile
The full path and filename of a wave file that will reside on the client.
If the wave file cannot be found, the wave file for the default beep sound will be used.
If there is no sound card on the client, the control will use the system speaker and default beep.
Delay
A value which specifies how to play the wave file.
If a delay value greater than 0 is specified, the delay needs to include the time to play the wave file.
If the value is too short the wave file will be-stopped and restarted before it has a time to finish.
-1 = the file is played once.
0 = the file is played repeatedly with no delay between iterations.
1 to 60 = the number of seconds of time before the file is then restarted.
PlayOnServer
The sounds are played on the server and the client.
If this control is used for alarming, then the sound may not be wanted on the server.
Although it is possible to use more than one control per client, this is not recommended.
If more than one control is used, one of the controls may be playing the wave file sound when another
control interrupts the first control and plays a different wave file. To avoid this situation, use only one
control in a display and show that display only once per client.
Installation
Click on the attachment link below to download the control "DO NOT SELECT THE RUN OPTION".
Once a local copy of the PlayWaveOCX.Exe file has been downloaded, close all programs and run the self
extracting file to unzip the contents to a temporary location.
From the temporary location, copy the PlayWaveOCX.CAB to the Active Display Server. Assuming a
default installation of RSView32, the Active Display Server is located in the following folder:
Program Files\Rockwell Software\ActiveXControlSetup
Run the Setup.exe program on the Active Display Server.
Alternatively the setup file can be run on all clients
Although we have tested this utility and are confident that it functions correctly, you must also test this
utility thoroughly outside of a production environment before applying it in your project. It is possible
that its functionality does not match your requirements. It is also possible that a defect in the utility may
prevent it from being implemented successfully in your project. Should you encounter a defect in this
utility, please notify Rockwell Software technical support so we can take corrective action.
Attachments
PLAYWAVEocx.exe (1.49 MB) Playwaveocx_Debug.reg (109 bytes)
But to get the playwaveocx.exe and playwaveocx_debug.reg, i need techconnect, is there any body have the two files?
Factorytalk view site edition v13 when alarm is triggered, no sound activated
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