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RE: FT Optix - PLC as a time source while NTP is unavailable

Posted By Chris T May 19, 2026 08:54:00 AM
Found In Egroup: FactoryTalk Optix \ view thread
Thank you, that advice got me to a solution. Below what I had to do: 1. Add the following code into the example. Using the SetSystemTime function from the sysinfoapi. // PLC local time DateTime plcTimeLocal = new DateTime( year, month, day, hour, minute, second, DateTimeKind.Local ); ...

RE: FT Optix - PLC as a time source while NTP is unavailable

Posted By Chris T May 19, 2026 04:45:07 AM
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Here we have the challenge. We are not using an OptixPanel. We are using the OptixRuntime on a PC (Asem Panel PC ASEM-VK3500). As mentioned I understand that these behave differently... -------------------------------------------

RE: FT Optix - PLC as a time source while NTP is unavailable

Posted By Chris T May 19, 2026 04:10:19 AM
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This does work for me in order to read the datetime from a PLC (Siemens or Rockwell) and then move it into a Datetime struct in Optix. The difficulty is that this does not change the time on the device itself and therefore the AlarmsEventLogger is technically referring to the wrong time. In the code ...

FT Optix - PLC as a time source while NTP is unavailable

Posted By Chris T May 18, 2026 06:28:00 AM
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As the title says. We use Optix HMI's and in some very niche cases it could be that we do not have an NTP-server available to synchronize the time with. Then we would like to use the PLC-time as the 'master' time. While it is possible to read the datetime from the PLC it is not possible to use ...

RPI with CIP-Safety devices and CPU Firmware

Posted By Chris T Jul 22, 2025 01:43:00 AM
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Hello, So recently we had some issues with RPI's going over the time-out limit on CIP-Safety communications for external devices, specifically from one supplier. CPU Safety task time would be set to 20ms and standard time-out value would be 180ms. Now in some setups these times would go upwards to ...

RE: Optix Runtime - 45%+ CPU usage on panel

Posted By Chris T Jul 08, 2025 12:26:00 AM
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To add on to this, and maybe help others a bit. We ended up removing our 'main' NetLogic. And moved all scripts to their respective panels. Only activating the required scripts (even the asynchronous tasks) when the panel is opened, closing/stopping when switching between panels. This has resulted ...

RE: Optix Runtime - 45%+ CPU usage on panel

Posted By Chris T Jun 24, 2025 07:47:00 AM
Found In Egroup: FactoryTalk Optix \ view thread
Okay, we found the 2nd NetLogic, it was nested in the MainPanelLoader. We will investigate further into seeing what is using so much CPU. Many thanks for your help.

RE: Optix Runtime - 45%+ CPU usage on panel

Posted By Chris T Jun 24, 2025 05:24:00 AM
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Thanks a lot for your support so far. It has been very insightful already. We will have a look at the points you mentioned. One I am not sure we understand. There is mention that we have 2 Netlogics, however we have only one to our current knowledge. We have one main Netlogic, which runs ...

RE: Optix Runtime - 45%+ CPU usage on panel

Posted By Chris T Jun 24, 2025 03:40:00 AM
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Please see attached file. Which parts would we have to look at in order to determine loading times or other bottlenecks? We have seen one message where it shows that a task is running too long. EDIT: There was only one log-file of today, so I am unsure what you mean by the 3 log-files.

RE: Optix Runtime - 45%+ CPU usage on panel

Posted By Chris T Jun 24, 2025 03:39:51 AM
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RE: Optix Runtime - 45%+ CPU usage on panel

Posted By Chris T Jun 24, 2025 02:53:00 AM
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Above the main overview. Goal of the panel is to show a dashboard with production values. It's built up of a MainpanelLoader and 11 panels that can be switched between. The main overview is (I assume) the most taxing page in terms of CPU. The sideways graph shows production state of the last 24 hours, ...

RE: Optix Runtime - 45%+ CPU usage on panel

Posted By Chris T Jun 24, 2025 02:32:00 AM
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Thank you for this question! I found out that opening that in notepad actually contains quite some interesting data. The .optix file is attached. EDIT: Turns out the .optix format was not allowed... Is this the info you are looking for? If not, please let me know which section of the file you ...

RE: Optix Runtime - 45%+ CPU usage on panel

Posted By Chris T Jun 23, 2025 09:09:00 AM
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Going up in versions is currently not feasible, as it's already running in the factory with no internet access at this moment. We haven't checked the panel firmware for the same reason (more or less)... The problem we are seeing is that it feels extremely sluggish at times, specifically notable when ...

Optix Runtime - 45%+ CPU usage on panel

Posted By Chris T Jun 23, 2025 08:34:00 AM
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Hello, Currently we have a Panel running at a customer with FactoryTalk Optix 1.6.0.132. It's running on a panel with the 2.2Ghz CPU and 4GB of 2133Mhz RAM. The FactoryTalk Optix Runtime application is using atleast 45% of CPU power by default. Which feels like an extremely high amount for us. ...

RE: Kinetix5500 reading cumulative energy usage

Posted By Chris T May 28, 2025 06:53:00 AM
Found In Egroup: Drives, Motion Control & Low Voltage Products \ view thread
Dear Vincent, That was the missing link for me! I couldn't find such an example yet. Many thanks for this insight. Regards,ChrisT

RE: Kinetix5500 reading cumulative energy usage

Posted By Chris T May 28, 2025 05:15:00 AM
Found In Egroup: Drives, Motion Control & Low Voltage Products \ view thread
Dear Vincent, Thanks for your reply. The manual you refer to clearly states 'MSG Access Only' for that attribute. So I do not fully understand which 'get' you are referring to? And a GSV does not show this parameter directly in the options. Regards ChrisT

Kinetix5500 reading cumulative energy usage

Posted By Chris T May 28, 2025 01:38:00 AM
Found In Egroup: Drives, Motion Control & Low Voltage Products \ view thread
Hello, We have an installation where we are using a Kinetix 5500 (Firmware 7.013) 2198-H025-ERS. With a VPL-B0753M-P motor. Connected to a 1756-L82ES (FW 33.11) controller. We would like to read the cumulative energy usage of the drive (or any energy usage tag available). However I cannot find ...

RE: Remote IO status check

Posted By Chris T Feb 20, 2024 06:57:00 AM
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Hello Philip, I think these checks cover what we want. And I agree we can use the I/O Led status to trigger these checks, however I expect that we will continuously or periodically do the checks with the GSVs. Regardless, thanks for your advise.

RE: Remote IO status check

Posted By Chris T Feb 14, 2024 12:50:00 AM
Found In Egroup: Automation Control \ view thread
Hey Philip, Thanks for the response. I was expecting this already yes. So just checking the EntryStatus is not enough. Now if I understand all correctly, then checking if the FaultCode of a module is anything other than 16#0000 (0) should give the desired result? And is this actually the best ...

Remote IO status check

Posted By Chris T Feb 13, 2024 06:13:00 AM
Found In Egroup: Automation Control \ view thread
Hello all, There are multiple ways to check statuses for remote IO modules. Specifically for the 1734-AENTR / 1734-AENT /1734-IB4 1734-OB4 /1734-IB8S / 1734-OB8S which we use often within the company. Now currently there's about 3 different ways we check remote IO status. For the head ...