Hi everybody, is there a smart way to set date + time of the CPU via mappview? in my beloved visual components it was so easy, just set system time directly with a component. Now there are 2 widgets, datetime input and output but I don’t understand why they are there if they can’t set the system t…

It is very easy. Local time of the client is shown automatically, you do not need to bind anything. [image]

I would expect that PLC where mappView server runs has a same system time like a client (synchronized to NTP server e.g.) and then it is enough if you just show in visualization system time of client. So you do not need to read cyclically PLC time. You are right that if you would like to change syst…

Hi Valerio, what we did in our project is a DateTimeInput which updates time in HMI until users sets it from HMI. Then time of PLC will be set. Create DateTimeInput DISystemTime Bind value to PLC var DesiredTime (DATE_AND_TIME) twoWay Events on DISystemTime: Click event → set PLC var UpdateDesir…

thank you for your reply. That’s interesting! so if I set the CPU to act as a NTP server [image] the NTP client (display connected via ethernet) will automatically sync with that time? This would be perfect, I’d just need to set the PLC time once. But I don’t see how to show the system time of…

thank you for adding your code. this is more or less what I’m doing right now, but I thought there would be a quicker way directly from mappview. I find really frustrating that B&R upgraded the HMI design by moving to mappview and still make things so much complicated than with visual components. …

ah I see!!! perfect so that’s it. thank you very much Jaroslav

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