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Thinking outside the box…

While PAC Control provides a useful control environment to program anything that you might imagine, there is also a whole world of predefined functionality in the I/O memory map for lazy engineers. Your problem can easily be solved with no programming, just by configuring the event/reaction functionality of PAC Brains.

  • The event would be to detect the state of a digital input.
  • The reaction would be to send an event message via SNMP to your PC
By using a simple SNMP trapper program in your PC, the received events can be saved directly to an ASCII file complete with system time/date stamp.

For more details and an introduction into the wonderful world of event/reaction programming, including email messaging and advanced plug ins, check out Chapter 4 of 1704 PAC Manager User Guide Opto22 - 1704 PAC Manager User's Guide. It’s guaranteed to blow your mind wide open!

You can pickup the SNMP Trapper program from BTT Software, an excellent piece of simple software that is well worth a donation. (Think of all the time it has saved you!):cool: