Once it triggers the call, do you want the script to stop until you manually restart it or do you want it to keep checking the condition and reset to start calling on next failure when everything is working again? (the former is probably easier).

Alan

The script need to continue on. To check the other ports. I also have a mobile page I created that has a visual also.

OK. Need to think about it some more. That adds to the complexity. You are probably going to need a separate "$notified_port_dx" variable for each port that suppresses notification if set to "y" and resets to "n" if you get a good read on the port.

Alan

Do I need to create a string value that stores the date? Compares the date and then decides how old the date is? The time it takes to have the particular port cleared could take days.

Or just comment out the email portion of the code and think about it.

I just now had a thought that a counter could help, but I would need to know how many possible times the counter would count within a certain time frame...

There are probably cleaner ways to do this with arrays. Also, might want to do file write and reads rather than storing everything in live variables so that you can restart the EZ-B, ARC, or the PC running it without losing current status.

I am hoping one of the more advanced scripting wizards will poke their head in this thread with some better ideas.

Alan

Alan raised an important issue.

how do you deal with windows reboots ? you will need to manually logon, launch the ARC, connect to EZB, etc.

my suggestion: use a powershell script add a windows schedule task to run the powershell script

@ptp I will handle reboots on a monthly - bi-weekly basis. I can add a script to launch the script upon startup.

There will be some manual intervention with this. Thank You.

I think I will just forgo the email portion.

@thetechguru So, instead of having for instance a 0 or 1. Have a third condition.

So to expand, I will have to create an array 24 long by 3 wide...... Let me see what I can come up with.

Thanks.

To be clear - is your intention to send an email on change of digital state only?

ok i just finished a power shell script:

if ($env: Processor_Architecture -ne "x86" )  { 
	write-warning 'Launching x86 PowerShell'
	&"$env:windir\syswow64\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -noninteractive -noprofile -file $myinvocation.Mycommand.path -executionpolicy bypass
	exit
}

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files (x86)\EZ-Robot Inc\EZ-Builder\EZ_B.dll")
$ezb = New-Object -TypeName EZ_B.EZB

$ezb.Connect("192.168.18.85")
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 500
if (-Not $ezb.IsConnected) {
	write-warning "Unable to connect to EZ-B"
} 

$body = ""
$failures = 0
for ($p=0; $p -le 23; $p++){ 
	$body = $body + "Port " + $p
	if ($ezb.Digital.GetDigitalPort($p)) {
		$body = $body + " PASS"
	}
	else {
		$body = $body + " FAIL"
		$failures = $failures + 1
	}
	$body = $body + "`n"
}
$ezb.Disconnect()

if ($failures -gt 0) {
	#print the message
	$body

	$secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString "put-your-password-here-hopefully-no-one-will-see-it" -AsPlainText -Force
	$credentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ( "your-account@gmail.com ", $secpasswd )

	$mailParam = @{
		To = "your-account@gmail.com"
		From = "your-account@gmail.com"
		Subject = "EZB Port status"
		Body = $body
		SmtpServer = "smtp.gmail.com"
		Port = 587
		Credential = $credentials
		UseSsl = 1
	}
	Send-MailMessage @mailParam 
}

if you want a EZScript version:

$body = ""
$failures = 0
REPEAT ($p, 0, 23, 1)
   $body = $body + "Port: " + tostring($p)
   if (GetDigital($p))
      $body = $body + " PASS"   
   else
      $body = $body + " FAIL"
      $failures = $failures + 1
   endif 
   #ezscript does not support new line
   $body = $body + " ||| " 
ENDREPEAT
if ($failures>0)
   #send email ...
   print($body)
endif

PS: I have changed REPEATWHILE to REPEAT is more neat! Thanks DJ

Here... This will trigger when the state of a digital port changes within the loop.

definearray($lastState, 24, false)

:loop

REPEAT ($cnt, 0, 23, 1)

  $v = getdigital($cnt)

  IF ($v != $lastState[$cnt])

    sayezbwait("Port " + $cnt + " to " + $v)

    $lastState[$cnt] = $v

  ENDIF

ENDREPEAT

sleep(100)

goto(loop)

@DJ and @ptp: Wow! Thank You! Give me a few years to process that code!

Here, i'll add some comments for you in the code...

What this will do is loop through all 24 digital ports and check their status. If the status of the port is different than the last time it was checked, a message will be spoken, which you can substitute for your email code. The $lastState array holds the last value of the digital port so that it doesn't keep notifying.

This code will only notify when the state of a digital port has changed.

# create an array that has 24 indexes (one for each digital port)
definearray($lastState, 24, false)

:loop

# Loop from 0 to 23, for each digital port
REPEAT ($cnt, 0, 23, 1)

  # Get the value of the digital port
  $v = getdigital($cnt)

  # check if the current digital port value does not equal the last value
  IF ($v != $lastState[$cnt])

    # The values are different, so let's notify the admin
    sayezbwait("Port " + $cnt + " to " + $v)

    # Set the last state to the current state so we do not keep sending emails on each loop
    $lastState[$cnt] = $v

  ENDIF

ENDREPEAT

# pause for a short time to not flood the data channel
sleep(100)

goto(loop)

@DJ Thank You!

Here's an smtp server to send email as well: https://synthiam.com/redirect/legacy?table=plugin&id=128

@DJ I am trying to use the email plug in. I read the how to on it. I have pre configured the gear on the email client. Now, to use the client, do I need to just say ControlCommand() and the "SMTP Client" plus the code variable that you mentioned above?

Thank You.

Here's the link to the smtp plugin with code examples: https://synthiam.com/redirect/legacy?table=plugin&id=128

Have fun!

@DJ,

What does it mean when an error says "Limits are outside of the array." I changed from 23 to 19.

Thanks