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

Hello, I am still getting a little confused by this. We send machines all across the world and I’d like the user to set the time from engineering like they did in VC4 as I don’t always have access to do it through AS. I’m using mappView C80 and AS6.5.3.11, NTP server client disabled on CPU config, …

[image] Shaun Whyley: NTP server client disabled on CPU config, I’ve had a play and I set the time using DTSetTime but the time then switches back to the original time. I just want to be able to set via mappView locally on the C80 I completely agree with you, mappview is a real pain to work w…

Thank you for that summary Valerio, I will give it a try. :smiley:

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