Modbus Driver Is it possible to disable without deleting?

[WaterWorks]

I have a couple of remote sites that only get used in the summer months. (14 remote sites on all year. 2 summer only) The power is then shut off for the winter. In the past we have just let Lookout continue to poll these sites even though they are not on.  Currently it does not appear to effect our poll times. I have just added another remote site that will not be active all the time.  When this site is down our polling time, almost comes to a complete stop. I would like to be able to disable these sites during the winter months and then renable in the spring. Is it possible?

All drivers are Modbus using Modbus Ethernet.

We are running Lookout 6.7

[Mike@Forshock · Accepted solution]

I have not found a "disable", but what we do is create a switch, a pot and a bushbutton.

Poll = switch1 and pushbutton1

PollRate = if(switch1, pot1, 99999)

This causes the Poll Rate to be very large when the switch is inactive.  Note, that if you have a new connection or write a new value it may still poll (Immediately Write Outputs).

Good luck,

Mike

[WaterWorks]

Yes that looks like it will work.

I tried several things yesterday and by having Poll= ON it looks like this works as well. We will be implement your suggestion in the upcoming weeks.  Much cleaner and the lead operator can then do this without me there.

[Mike@Forshock]

Glad to be of assistance 🙂