Im getting channel specific errors

[MarkB 89]

I know what the problem is. One of the Fieldpoint inputs is right at the max value. Is there a way to stop Lookout from recieving these alarms. I thought there was something about this in one of the e-mail news leeters that i recieved. Thanks for your help

[Aaron_G]

FieldPoint modules return status as a 2 bit number (4 states; good, unconfigured, channel specific error 1, channel specific error 2). The specific errors vary from module to module and any given I/O module may use none, one or both of the Specific Error Codes.

If you have version 4.0.1.55 or later of the fpoint.cbx and Lookout, you can filter the alarms. To filter the alarms, create a fpoint.ini file in the lookout directory and add the following lines to filter channel specific alarms:

[FieldPointTagName]
FilterChAlarms=1

A value of 0 for FilterChAlarms will allow all alarms, whereas a value of 1, filters Channel Specific Error 1 only.
Version 4.5.18 of the fpoint cbx will filter both Channel Specific Error 1 and 2 with a FilterChAlarms=1 value.

Regard
s,
Aaron