Add Screens to a Panelview 800 HMI for BETTER Navigation 

Happy to hear that!

You are welcome, thank you for watching!

@@TimWilborne Would be interesting to see two Micro820 talking each other through Ethernet or DeviceNet using pluging modules.

Great tip. You can also right click an unused space on your screen and "Show Grid" to make it easier to line all the objects up.

Yes you can!

No, each manufacturer has their own software and many manufacturers, including AB, have different softwares for different HMI products.

See if this helps. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2VFAiFfuIrQ.html

Thank you Tim! Missed that video. As it happens my local allen bradely decided they would not be loaning out a HMI for my university presentation. I've spend the last 2 weeks desperately trying to find a scada system to use instead. I am hoping to get trail access to Rockwell's Scada system.

No, it isn't necessary and I wish they would disable it by default.

Both should be possible, we have videos coming soon on Modbus with the Micro800 PLCs.

Yes, you can select the file and pull the tags right out of Studio 5000 or CCW. I don't have anything in Emulate, not a fan.

Hi Dawson. As you have found, under global you have the Current Screen Number. And it has a source and destination tag. The source is your "commanded" screen number, the destination is the screen that it is currently on. If you notice, every screen starts with a number, that is the screen number. So if you enter a 5 into the source tag, then it will go to screen 5 then the destination will indicate 5. I haven't done it in a while, let me know if that works.

Yes, I'm going to do a video on it later where I change the alarm button to red when there is an active alarm.

Hi Greg, no I haven't but it is on the list for the next set of Panelview videos.

Awesome. Thanks for all your hard work on these and sharing your knowledge

It sounds like you assigned it to both the source and destination tag, it only needs assigned to the destination tag if you are reading it.

@@TimWilborne Thanks Tim, I did manage to solve this, quite a rabbit hole but I'll post the solution here in case anyone else has this problem. You have to create a rung that polls the destination tag variable (I did a check every 100ms). If the destination tag variable is > 0 then store the value to a local variable (this value is the ID of the current screen showing) then write a 0 back to the destination tag variable. Writing a zero gives screen selection control back to the HMI, if you don't return control after polling then you get the 2053 error when you try to switch screens via the HMI buttons. Seems like awkward behaviour. This might be worth a video on its own...

@@adamhassell Thanks for the follow up. I'll have to experiment with that.

I don't recommend using the F keys at all! If you can't interface with the operator with the 4" screen, then get a bigger screen.

@@TimWilborne Wow, alright then 😁

@@JohnSmith-lv8xk Yes, it is one of the things I do have a strong opinion about :)

I don't think you can rotate an image on the Panelview 800, so you would need to make different views of it for the different angles before hand then use a multistate indicator to change between the different angles.

@@TimWilborne entonces,tengo que crear un grafico nuevo otro programa,ese mismo grafico que viene en la librería no puedo girarlo?,o hacerle un espejo para que cambie de dirección o vista.

I don't believe so in the Panelview 800. Let me know if you find a way.