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what is going on guys Vlad here with a soulless PLC calm and today we're gonna be looking at tying in the time on our appeal see to our HMI so essentially we got a PLC which is running a certain timestamp and you have the settings on the PLC residing but then the HMI displays a different time and this is sometimes of an issue if you have a way to capture your alarm so your alarms could be captured through the HMI and essentially not match the time that is being set on the PLC that being said I will show you another trick which I use to essentially display the time on the PLC alone and I don't have to worry about the time that is being kept on the HMI side which may be off for whatever reason and because the time synching is just not always perfect that being said let's get right into it and see what we need to do in order to get this running so the first thing first we're going to work with the PLC and right now online as you can see I'm going to save this program make sure that I have the latest and greatest and then what I'm going to do first is create a UDT for the time so the unity for the time self-explanatory you're going to have years hours months days minutes and seconds so let's go offline since you can't create UD T's on a running program so I'm going to go offline and I believe you can I think just can edit them let's go here I have already an output define so I'm going to create a new data type and this is going to be my UD t UD t underscore time there's going to be no description so we're going to start with the year and I'm glancing over because I've already tested this right before so I want to make sure that I get the right the right descriptions in here and that everything works as expected month and it's actually this data is being captured by the PLC so it needs to be in this order if it's not it's going to be off and it's going to be incomprehensible data essentially you're going to have days which are stored in months so on and so forth so you do need to follow this specific order they have the hour which is also add in so everything is essentially a dent I'm going to show you how to retrieve that as well minutes dent then we have seconds and a microseconds okay so that looks pretty good we're going to apply that so that's our essentially time structure in order to populate the structure we need to create a rung which is going to get the system value through a gsv routine a GFC instruction sorry so GSV gets system value and here we're going to say wall clock time so wall clock time is essentially a a register which resides on the plc and allows us to essentially siphon out that information into the tag that we've created ourselves so local date at the time and the destination is going to be our so here we need to create essentially our instance PLC time and let's see here and we'll go we're going to create a new plc time which is going to be of type ut underscore time and let's make that a global it's going to be on the PLC box on the main PLC scope tag and this needs to begin with the years of that year this is I guess a little bit confusing since you're copying into the year but it will automatically populate all the other registers that we've defined in the in the unity so don't worry about it's only showing that year it should populate all of them this looks pretty good let's save this program we're going to hit save that looks good and let's go online let's download this program in this new program to the PLC and see if everything is being populated as we would expect okay let's hit download we are confident in all our changes and that everything should work as expected so the next step is going to be essentially linking of the the PLC to the HMI I'll show you exactly where that's done what we're going to just double check that all the data is being created correctly on the PLC side before we move on to that step and like I said we're going to incorporate it into a screen which essentially is going to reside in this panel view plus 1000 that I have in the back here and the goal of that project is to essentially display the time on every single screen in the navigation bar on top just so that the for example the operator that walks up to the HMI can have a tag reference and then once the alarms start populating he will know exactly when that alarm came on and make it makes it a lot easier to troubleshoot and understand what happened at which point in time okay so everything looks good we are online so the year is definitely 2018 we can right-click this we can go into monitor and here we will see that we are the so of course the month is going to be in November they 18th our 17 it is 5:00 p.m. minute 36 so I've actually I synced up the plc to my time clock initially and as you can see the seconds are also being counted as we would expect as well as the microseconds I guess not as relevant but that's that's just how it's going to be so now that we know that this data is correct we can go to our HMI program and here like I said this is the program essentially that's running on this panel view 1000 behind me and what I need to do so first I'm going to go into global connections and this is where you will find the way to link the PLC time to your program time so essentially this is going to sync up the time for the different tags on your HDMI display and I had essentially these tags in the past but we're going to look at that once again so this PLC underscore L 24 a R is already linked to in my program so this is actually the link which is done to the Aris links enterprise so the way you do this is essentially you first of all you refresh all of these tags and you may have done this for different tags but essentially let's do this really quickly for the time so PLC al 24 a R if we expand the section we can notice that there's going to be online tags and here we should be able to find PLC time right there so PLC time and we were looking at the year I believe yes so year and then you can just select this okay and you can do this for all of these essentially let's do really quickly I guess month our minutes and second so that's the way you sync your timer so global connections in the state and time tab tab we're going to hit okay that looks good and of course you can get it to update faster or slower but that's not what I wanted to show you what I wanted to show you is in the top bar so in my global object I have this essentially top bar underscore is zero to underscore top bar so this is the toe bar which is going to be shown on every single screen in the HMI application and essentially here you have the user admin you know default so on and so forth the substantials go over logs in and will display on the right but on the left side I would like to display a time so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to essentially create a text I'm going to copy that actually out of my normal display let me see here so the main screen also has a title tab which is going to be overlaying that global object so I'm going to to preserve the sort of the fonts and though just the way things look I want to copy this string over and what I'm going to do is I'm going to create so first of all I'm going to let's see here I need to make sure that we have only two characters actually this is not going to be this is not going to be a string I think that's a mistake to do it as a string so it's going to be Aiden a display so let's see here so object numeric display so number of digits we're going to start with the hours and I was going to be - there's going to be no decimal places fill a left with a none we're going to connect that right away and we're going to put that - let's see here so our and of course this needs to be formatted just a little bit better since now it has a border so we're gonna have none in terms of border we're going to have back style transparent so we're going to have no back so essentially it's going to be just itself I'm going to mess with the essentially with the fonts a little bit more because I do want this to be matching some of my other stuff but we are going to get it to a point where it should work I'm going to align it with all of the stuff and so here first of all I'm also going to align it to the right to make it quite a bit smaller so let's see here we can get away with width of 30 okay that looks pretty good and I'm going to zoom in just a little bit so I can work on it slightly better I'm also going to include a couple of different objects so I'm going to put a text here and this text needs to match the same format as this and this is going to be just my two dots semicolon let's see here so it's going to be twelve it's going to be white you okay I'm just trying to position everything of the way it should be let's see here okay and since we have our hours we need a minutes and we're going to correct the fill as well because the film may not be the same minutes we're going to hit apply and I think the seconds may not update the way we would like Tim to but that's okay we're going to because it depends essentially on the connectivity on the update rate of the of the speed well that's okay we can also fix that as well we can link the seconds I guess off the HMI tag that's not a big deal but that's so we're going to select all of these tags we're going to select all of these tags we're going to unload a line to the bottom we're also going to try and see if the spacing would work yeah it's not exactly what I was looking for so let's see you if we can just move that in place that looks okay let's see if the connection is actually making sense so there you go that's pretty much the time of the hour as well as the the hour of the minutes as well as the seconds that's the right link I'm going to spend a little bit more time trying to fix the so the hour usually doesn't have a leading zero so when you have you know five o'clock it's not going to be zero five but the minutes you definitely want to fill a left with zeros like so the same goes for the seconds so that your clock essentially looks like a normal clock and I think we're going to condense this a little bit too because we don't need that much of a space let's see here this to be you like that and then this time is going to come in okay that looks good and then this last you you okay that looks okay okay I think that's spacing now this is a little bit odd this this is off by a pixel that looks good that looks like the spacings all worked out so if you play this yeah I guess those semi columns are still far away further than we I want them to be let's see here last one last week that we're gonna go through and I'm going to leave that alone it's not always obvious the way things are looking on the screen and the way they're gonna show up on the actual running HMI so let's see once again it looks pretty good I think there's no there's no issues with that clock everything looks aligned and of course if I if I smell a little bit more time I can definitely shift that over but essentially we're reading all the data everything is displaying as is I'm going to download this and this particular time is being taken off the PLC rather than being taken off the HMI therefore you're essentially not at the mercy of you know the HMI being replaced which is often gonna be before the PLC and then just the time not being synced correctly so this is the way I like to do it because at the end of the day my alarms are being saved based off the time of the PLC not the HMI so there you go everything is linked and working as expected thank you guys so much for watching my content if you have any questions on this topic make sure to leave them in the comment section below and if you can spend five seconds of your time liking as well as sharing that video if you've enjoyed it that would mean absolutely the world to me and if you have any suggestions for the channel what kind of hardware software I should be 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