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General Category => Do-more CPUs and Do-more Designer Software => Topic started by: Garyhlucas on July 28, 2017, 03:41:19 PM

Title: Can't exit pid tuning
Post by: Garyhlucas on July 28, 2017, 03:41:19 PM

A couple of times now I have lost communications with the PLC while trying to do PID tuning and there is like no way out of the tuning routine! Click all the buttons and you go nowhere. Just an annoying little bug.

Title: Re: Can't exit pid tuning
Post by: Greg on July 31, 2017, 09:27:56 AM

Does Do-more Designer crash? How do you recover from this?

Title: Re: Can't exit pid tuning
Post by: franji1 on August 04, 2017, 01:43:16 PM

I was able to duplicate this.  It does not crash, but it "hangs around".  It may eventually crash - I don't know.  I wrote a FogBugz case on it.

Title: Re: Can't exit pid tuning
Post by: Garyhlucas on August 08, 2017, 04:49:02 PM

Thanks for looking at this. I always wonder if I am just being dense and missing the obvious. In this case the obvious is damn I like how autotune works!!!

Title: Re: Can't exit pid tuning
Post by: franji1 on August 08, 2017, 05:04:29 PM

Why is your comm dying at a very pregnant moment?

Dismissing the dialog is minor compared to the Loop mode being overridden, being stuck in either Auto or Manual mode.  That's what the Auto Tune dialog is trying to resolve, and why it cannot be dismissed, but is unable to resolve, hence the "can't exit" issue.

It's sort of like doing a Force, then losing comm.  That is almost always not good, because you can't UNforce until you re-establish communications.