how can I capture the time of an event?

[alyou]

How can I save the time when an event occur (D/H/M/S)? which easy can I use.

[befu]

Hello alyou,

there is no way to read the realtime clock of the easy800 in your application program yet.

The only possibility is to print a timestamped event by using a function block SP (serial output) in conjunction with a function block D (text display).

The function block D holds the description or name of the event, which the function block SP is printing out together with a timestamp, triggered by the rising edge of a binary operand like Ixx, Qxx, or Mxx at the SP trigger input T. This works only for easy800 devices, Version 07-xxxxxxxxx or higher.

Another way is to use a so called "alarm modem" like the "Tixi" device:

http://www.tixi.com/index.php?id=336&L=1

You can setup this modem to monitor several operands in the easy device. You can define events and collect them in this device and/or send this events by phone, fax,  or mobile phone (SMS). Tixi alarm modems are already "speaking" the language of the easy family.

Hope this helps!

Best regards

Bernhard