Page 3 - Weintek TechTips
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March 19, 2019
Sometimes, you may experience an error when you try to run a new version or new install of EasyBuilder Pro such as crashing without warning or showing a message such as below.
'We are experiencing display…
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February 25, 2019
This tech tip is about the recipe function on Weintek HMI, a frequently asked question.
As usual, we'll work through the steps for a basic example to get you started. As with most of our TechTips, this…
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February 15, 2019
In addition to being able to syncronise datalogs and alarm/event logs to a MySQL or MS SQL database, you can now read, update, delete and append databases using the SQL query object.
Steps1. Create your…
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November 22, 2018
This TechTip is about using For/Next loops to ramp up and down a value on a Weintek HMI.
The macro is using local word LW 100 as the output, the time in mS between steps is set by "time" (LW 101), the…
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October 18, 2018
In this TechTip we're looking at using tags in a project and how they work in a macro. Address Tags are a great way to maintain control of elements you may wish to reassign later to an alternative address…
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October 11, 2018
The reduced interface in EasyBuilder Pro for the cMT-GXX series Gateway means that to start the EasyAccess 2.0 service we have to find a way to set the EasyAccess Control word LW 10820 to "1" to start…
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October 03, 2018
This TechTip is about sending alarms from a Weintek HMI. The example is using Gmail - but you can use your own preferred email provider of course.
In Gmail, you will need to enable "Allow less secure…
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September 21, 2018
In this TechTip, we'll build on something we've looked at previously, and that's For-Next loops.
In this example what we're looking to do is sequence 8 bits in the HMI (LB-10-17) with a time delay - an…
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September 14, 2018
This TechTip is about using "StringCat" in a Weintek HMI macro. You may already be familiar with using CONCAT in Microsoft Excel to link different text strings together to form a new string, this is what…
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September 14, 2018
In this TechTip, we'll be looking at For-Next loops in the Weintek HMI macro language. It will be assumed that you've already got some basic knowledge of Weintek macros.
As in other macro TechTips we'll…