How to manage panel buzzer with JMobile

eTOP400, 500 and 600 Series operator panels have an integrated buzzer, the buzzer can be managed in different ways:

Buzzer On: sounds on touch event on any part of the panel display
Buzzer on Touch: sounds on touch events only on touch-interacting widgets like: Buttons, HotSpots, Needles, Numeric Fields, External keys, Comboboxes, Tables items, Control list items.
User Controlled: sounds on specific commands.

NOTE: buzzer management as described in this FAQ has minimum system requirements:

• JMobile Suite 1.91 or above
• for eTOP400 BSP version 2.80 or above
• for eTOP500/600 BSP version 1.76 or above

What to do

Buzzer configuration involves three separated levels:

JMobile project: Buzzer On Touch property

Buzzer on touch property is available into the Project properties.
To display Project Properties double click on the Project Property voice from project tree, the Buzzer on touch property is available from the property pane, the property can be set as True or False.

JMobile Buzzer Setup and Buzzer Control System variables.

The Buzzer Setup and Control system variables can be selected from an Attach to dialog. The System source must be selected, the variables can be found under the Buzzer group.

Buzzer Setup possible values are: 0 = "None", 1 = "On Touch", 2 = "User Controlled"
Buzzer Control possible values are: 0 = "Sound OFF", 1 = "Sound ON", 2 = "Sound Blink"

Panels system settings, BSP Settings voice.

Into System Settings rotating menu navigate to locate BSP Settings voice.
Into the BSP info/settings dialog select the Buzzer tab, three choices are availble: None, On Touch and User Controlled.

Following table explains how to configure the above mentioned options to obtain the desired behavior

NOTE: When “Buzzer On Touch” is configured as True into project properties:

• Buzzer Setup will be automatically set to 2
• Buzzer Control will be set to 0

Applies to

JMobile 1.91 and eTOP400/500/600