HMI Panel start button on TP to start program

Quote from Charlie1768

HI all, trying to make an HMI to display on our R30IB controller and teach pennant that has a program start button on it.

so far I've got a button on my HMI that runs on a flag and then a wait command at the very start of my program waiting for this flag to be turned on to start the program.

Then in the program select menu i have program select mode set as other and production start mode set as UOP

Then in the system config I have Enable UI signals set as true and remote/local config set to remote.

And this isn't working for me wondering if there is something I've missed or need to do differently any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hello, There are two ways to create an ihm on Teach Pendant. The first is to create an html page and open it with the Browser, and the second is to open it in the -> User menu.

Quote from Charlie1768

Yes I have made an HMI using sharepotint 2007 with activeX control options. On it I have a toggle button that turns on a flag then this is saved as an SDM file and transferred onto the controller and opens fine but when i try to start the program using this button it does nothing

For example, what you can do in a Logic BG is that when the flag is activated, you activate the SI Cycle Start and when you want to stop, you activate another button that deactivates the flag and deactivates the SI Cycle Start.

Quote from Charlie1768

How do I activate the SI signal using the flag I've tried looking around everywhere for a way to turn it on and i cant seem to find it

I can't speak to the SIs, but I've done this before using the UIs. If you map a DO and an UI to the same Port number on Rack 0, Slot 0, turning on that DO also turns on the UI. I've used this a couple times when I had to use a BG program in place of a PLC.

This does require that you switch the robot from using SIO to UIO, though.

DO 400-417 mapped to UI 1-18

Quote from Charlie1768

Does this mean i could press a button on my HMI that turn on the DO but at the same time turns on the UI and if so is there any specific UI that needs to be turned on as i had a look at the UI list on our robot and one of them is already predefined as a start or can i use any UI

Specific UIs. Their assignments are fixed, and not changeable.

For the robot to operate, you need hold the UIs IMSTP and HOLD. Probably also SFSPD and ENABLE.

The FAULT RESET and START UIs will need a pulse apiece, one after the other, in order to start the robot.

We use this UOP start method using a browser page. You should be able to switch or pulse the UOPs with the browser page. Remember to set the programme you want to run in the $SHELL_WRK.$CUST_NAME (which I think is in the detail of program start method)

Quote from Charlie1768

I tried this method before and when I tried to turn on a UOP through the web page it tried to write a 1 into it rather then turn it on or off

Just had a look at ours. We pulse a flag from the HMi. The UI is mapped to this flag.

Go into IO - TYPE - UOP - Change to UI - Config. Change the rack to 34 slot 1 and start to which flag you want to use.

Quote from Charlie1768

I gave your idea a go and couldn’t seem to get the UI mapped to anything. What I did was go into the configuration of a DO and set the rack, slot, and start to 0 and did the same for the UI signal and it seemed to do nothing. Was this the right way to do this or is there another way

What mapping did you use? How did you test it? You should be able to monitor DOs in one window, UIs in another, and see each UI turn on/off when you change the matching DO.

Note: This is a different method from using Flags:

Quote from racing_is_life

Go into IO - TYPE - UOP - Change to UI - Config. Change the rack to 34 slot 1 and start to which flag you want to use.

This method connects Flags to the UIs instead of DOs. Other than that, it should work the same way.