Communication Driver Alarms

Using the information in the topic, Communication Driver Log-Enabled Variables, you can create Alarm tags to warn operators of a loss in communication or a decrease in communication quality.

Reference Notes:

The alarm tag will use an expression as its trigger, where the expression refers to one of the log-enabled variables in the communication driver. It is recommended that you create the alarm tag as a child of the driver tag.

Example:

An alarm to warn of driver quality falling below 0.95.

Expression:    [*Driver]\Quality

This expression assumes that the Alarm tag was created as the child of a driver. If the alarm cannot refer to a parent driver, substitute the full name of the driver tag for "*Driver".

Shown configured in an alarm tag:

Driver alarm expression

Communication Driver Log-Enabled Variables - Describes the variables that may be logged for your driver.