ops_keisha
@kstewart · Joined March 2025
Plant manager · food and beverage
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Makes sense. A badge would be enough for our shift.
Three sites have an offline warning but the table still says RUNNING, with a speed. Which do I believe?
How many children can one gateway carry? We have a line with roughly 300 Modbus slaves on two gateways.
Good to know about the metal racking, I’ll budget a second one for the cold store then.
Also curious from the money side. If one 150 dollar box covers our warehouse, that changes the business case a lot compared to the outdoor ones at 1,000+.
Ankara says RUNNING in the table but also has an “is offline” alarm open for 3 days. If I’m the operator, which one do I believe?
Carlos is right about SMS. I run a food plant and we built nearly the same “only at night, only if it lasts” alert for cold room doors, so here’s what worked for us.
Alarm rules don’t have a time window, so do the logic in a Rules card instead. Put the three bed sensors under an asset for the wing (Sites & Assets), add a Rules card on a dashboard locked to that asset, and write:
When: A value changes, device = every device of the bed sensor profile, value bed_occupied, becomes 0, and stays so for 10 minutes. Only if: A time window, after 22:00, before 06:00 (a window can cross midnight). Then: Raise an alarm, type bed_exit, severity Major, on the device. Then Tell people.
With “every device of the profile”, each bed has its own trigger and its own 10-minute wait. The trigger fires once when the value turns 0, not on every message.
Two details. Make the sensors send bed_occupied as 1/0 every 30 seconds, not only on change. And the alarm you raise stays open until someone clears it (a Clear action, a flow or a person), so the carer clears it after checking the room, which also gives you a record.
For reaching the carer: Tell people goes to roles, and roles get the bell plus any linked chat app, not e-mail or SMS. If she uses a chat app on her phone, link it in her profile and that’s the quickest route. For a real SMS, add a flow with a Notify block and her number. The triggers page has the “stays so for” details.
Good. Fewer transmits means fewer site visits, I’ll take it.
If I put a User in a group that has raw commands ticked, can they send raw commands then? Asking before someone tries it on a live line.
Can a click on a stat card start a pump? We have a booster pump on a board and the operators want to tap the card instead of going to the device page every time.
Following, we pay for battery swaps per site visit so this matters to me more than any datasheet number.
From the customer side: I’d want my own org, yes. And honestly I don’t care about your script, I care that the number is right.
We have a plant in Europe and a warehouse in the US. One organisation or two? Ideally I’d like one login for my team.
From the management side: our integrator told us the same thing about gaps, they ended up adding storage on the box. Can’t tell you the details, sorry.
MOSFET is out and the input switches cleanly at 23.4 V, measured. Felt silly after reading David’s sketch, three parts fewer. We kept line.hold as a Basic command on a board button with Ask before running on, because the PLC itself decides when to hold, so the board is only asking. Thanks all.

