Apex alarm question

[zbrusko]

Hi,

I am using the apex email alarm for many potential issues. Every month, it goes off when my trident reagent is empty. Every hour it alerts me. Since I usually wait until the weekend to swap out reagents, I turn off the alarm. However, if something else were to go wrong, I’d have no way to know. Is there a way to set up separate email alarms, so I can turn one off & leave everything else on?

Thanks!

 

[zbrusko]

Bump

 

[Tangdora]

No. But but you can change the priority order if this is less important.

Or create a VO that you can manually turn

 

[zbrusko]

I was looking at the VO section in the manual. Can I simply make a VO and move this code: “If Error Trident_4_3 Then ON” from the email alert to it? Can I set up the VO as an email alert? I’m a little fuzzy on how VOs work, exactly.

 

[Tangdora]

No. But but you can change the priority order if this is less important.

I was looking at the VO section in the manual. Can I simply make a VO and move this code: “If Error Trident_4_3 Then ON” from the email alert to it? Can I set up the VO as an email alert? I’m a little fuzzy on how VOs work, exactly.

Can’t create a VO for email. You can only have one of those. A VO though acts exactly like any other outlet on the energy bar they just don’t physically exist hence “virtual”. But you can code them in ways to trip virtually on or off depending on the command you put

You can create the vo call it something like VO_TriErr. In that you would put

Set off
If Error Trident_4_3 Then ON

Then in your email outlet you put the command that just checks if the VO outlet is just on or off

If output VO_TriErr = On then On

The error triggers the VO on and the VO being on itself is what trigger the notification to you

This will function exactly as what you have now with one caveat. VO creates an actual outlet toggle that you can put on screen. This will allow you to manually turn it off after it alerts you via the toggle so that it then evaluates to false in your email outlet and goes back to monitoring all the other lines

 

[Tangdora]

Or if your lazy like me and don’t want to keep toggling lol you can make the VO function more like a snooze button and just leave it on Auto but priority of email commands becomes important. In this case put

If Error Trident_4_3 Then ON

As the very first line in your email outlet.

Then create a vo (vo_TrErrSnz) that does something like

Set off
If output VO_TriErr = On then On
Defer 130:00 then on

Since reoccurring notification go out every hour the deferring of 130 mins will ensure you get at least two notification about the trident error before the snooze kicks in. If you want a few more alert then multiply the number by 60 and add on

The. In your email right after trident error command put

If output VO_TriErr = On then off

This will also evaluate to true after the snooze period is reach and thus turn off the alert your getting from the main trident line in the email outlet.

 

[zbrusko]

This is tremendously helpful. Thank you so much!