windows 7 lookout opc server problems

[davich]

Hello,

I am not able to successfully read from my OPC server 2011 within Lookout 6.6 on one of my pcs.  I had built a process on a different pc that worked.  Now on a new pc, after installing NiMax and configuring a NIDAQ PCI-6052E device and building the NI-DAQmx Global virtual channels using AI1-AI8 points then installing and configuring Lookout and building up a process, I can see the AI1 - AI8 points in lookout when I traverse the object browser and find process1>OPCClient1>computername>system>DAQmx>AI1 (for example).  Once I do that, lookout alarms with priority-8, object name ...OPCclient1, area-comm description - Internal error (2): Processing read data (50): Can't convert data to Lookout format (00000004).

This has worked on a different pc, when I run lookout as Administrator... Any help would be appreciated.

David Istre

[Ryan.S]

What's the OS of the old pc?

Can you copy the attached opclient.ini to lookout folder? It will log the opc communication to the path set in ini file. Post the log file here.

[davich]

Hello,  I replied once, but my response did not show up on the discussion forum.

Both PCs are running Windows 7.

I have placed the opcclient.ini file within the Lookout folder and then ran lookout 2 times.  The first time I ran lookout, I was getting data from my opc client.  The log file shows that (from 8:11am).  I closed lookout and did some other things for about an hour and then ran lookout again.  This time I could not get data from my opc client.  Again, the log shows that (around 9:50am).

Is there a way to use a NIDAQ card within lookout 6 without having to use OPCClient?  Also, is there a way to get better lookout support than through these forums?

David