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Email / LookoutDirect Question
Created Date: May 26,2008
Created By: KPrice
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We have a customer using LookoutDirect for a SCADA system. They are asking if they could receive automatic email on alarm conditions. The PC running Lookout is a stand-alone PC, with an internet connection via DSL service with an email account from the DSL provider. The PC's NIC connects to an isolated network to Terminator modules. Can anyone offer suggestions on ways to send automatic email on alarm conditions? Thank you for your help.
Created Date: June 11,2008
Created by: GKiser
Wow, just noticed this one! Sorry KPrice.
If the LookoutDirect is talking to a PLC via an ECOM100, then the ECOM100 in the PLC is capable of sending e-mail.
Greg Kiser
Host Engineering, Inc.
support@hosteng.com
Created Date: June 11,2008
Created by: KPrice
Thanks for your response, Greg. We started looking into using the ECOM100. We have an ECOM100 in a 205, but have not yet sent any email, still working on it. Thanks.
Created Date: July 17,2008
Created by: stimpsonjcat
Actually, it is pretty easy to use a command line email client from LKD directly, just use the RUN command and format the arguments properly.
Created Date: July 17,2008
Created by: bvcman
I have Lookout from NI. It has mailer objects. You set everything up right there in the object. I am not sure if LookoutDirect has the mailer object tho.
Created Date: July 18,2008
Created by: KPrice
bvcman, a Lookout email object would be perfect. I could not find any email object in LookoutDirect.
Was the email object removed from the LookoutDirect version?
stimpsonjcat, are you suggesting using the Run Object in LKD to start an email program, such as Outlook or Outlook Express? Can these programs be setup to automatically send an email with a specific message to specific addresses, and then shut down? Do you need to be an IT genius?
We have tested the ECOM100 and have sent test email. It works great, but it requires more network connection, which has other issues.
Thanks for your help.
Created Date: July 21,2008
Created by: bvcman
KPrice
I just checked on the NI website and it appears that the mailer objects are not included in the LookoutDirect version
Created Date: July 21,2008
Created by: KPrice
bvcman, Thank you for finding an answer on the LKD mailer object, but I am sorry to hear that LookoutDirect does not include the mailer object. I am not IT savvy enough to know how to automatically email from email clients, as stimpsonjcat suggests. Many places don't have IT guys, and if there are IT guys, they don't want to be bothered, they have their hands full. Thanks for the responses.
Created Date: July 30,2008
Created by: stimpsonjcat
No, not outlook. You need a command line email program, I think I used a program called bmail.
http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm
objects to define =
Pb3 = new Pushbutton (
"c:\bmail.exe -s mail.trailerpark.com -t bubba@trailerpark.com -f bubba@trailerpark.com -a " "test " " -b " "testing " " "
, , yes, 0);
Run1 = new Run (Pb1, TextEntry1, 1, 5);
TextEntry1 = new TextEntry ( "mail.trailerpark.com ", no, yes, 0);
Created Date: July 31,2008
Created by: KPrice
Thanks stimpsonjcat for the info. I looked at your "BeyondLogic " link. This is not what I am looking for; it is well beyond my logic. (I am not an IT genius.) I looked at the NI Lookout Mailer object as suggested by bvcman: nice. Just what I was looking for; easy, fill-in-the-blank, like the email I-boxes. We 've used LookoutDirect on a number of projects and love it. Sorry the LookoutDirect does not include the Mailer object. Any plans to include the Mailer object in LookoutDirect?
Created Date: August 07,2008
Created by: stimpsonjcat
There hasn't been a change to LKD in several years, so I doubt one is forthcoming.