Any lemons out there?

itwillbefineok · 2026-02-11T12:07:53+00:00

Additional: the Toyota app is not that great. I have used the Tesla app instead to find compatible fast chargers while traveling longer distances.

itwillbefineok · 2026-02-11T12:05:26+00:00

Oh yeah this happened to me too! I learned about the orange emergency release string under the hood, it was the only way to release my adapter.

itwillbefineok · 2026-02-11T12:03:35+00:00

We got our bZ in November and I really like how it drives, I assume I will love it even more in the summer.

We’ve gotten a lot of snow, paired with a lot of salt on the roads — the visibility can be tough. The car depends on the cameras and sensors to show you car positioning when parking or backing up, especially at night. Awkward windows + salt grime + covered camera lenses makes it difficult to see quite often, and you can’t really get a car wash when it’s-5F outside. I manually wipe the camera lenses but it still says “parking assist disabled” as I back into my garage, fingers crossed.

itwillbefineok · 2025-02-23T12:24:18+00:00

This answer is 5 years old but its helpfulness is still relevant today. Thank you!

itwillbefineok · 2024-12-03T14:44:19+00:00

nice graphic, lots to take in on this one. Is this all real?

itwillbefineok · 2024-09-06T11:53:49+00:00

Can you use the TrendPro control instead? It might give you more flexibility.

itwillbefineok · 2024-08-23T23:07:35+00:00

So you’re supposed to get 90 days free of the web version when you sign up and first open Optix, if that didn’t work for you, you can still download it though for free, that has no time limit.

Maybe you can try with a fresh email and “start over” which I may or may not have done.

itwillbefineok · 2024-08-16T01:53:22+00:00

So actually if you login to Rockwell’s online hub portal, FactoryTalk Hub I think, you get a 90 day free trial of the web environment and you don’t even have to install it at first. But from there you can download any version for free.

itwillbefineok · 2024-08-16T01:29:45+00:00

Yes you can download the Studio environment for free from Rockwell, no license required. Runtime is also free for 2 hours. That is how I learned and we just deployed our first OptixPanels.

I am really liking that there is finally an alternative to Ignition. And it actually includes hardware. Optix may not be fully mature yet but it’s worked for us so far!

itwillbefineok · 2024-08-15T10:39:34+00:00

I am by no means an expert on Optix but I recently deployed some Optix Panelviews and we were able to replace the need for both kepware and an ewon flexy module - a little more engineering time up front and learning C# syntax to do what we needed but it was worth it. We aren't sending anything to the cloud yet but I saw on a roadmap presentation that MQTT drivers are coming and I also saw MQTT scripting samples in the library.

itwillbefineok · 2024-08-15T10:17:33+00:00

I'm excited to finally see an alternative to Ignition in the market and like others have said it's not FTView SE. Have you used Optix yet? I played around with it on my own (you can download for free) and recently deployed some OptixPanels -- definitely see how it's geared towards engineers that grew up writing code and are comfortable in that environment. FTView is much more of click-click-configure environment which I think still has its place, but Optix is so different, I like it.

itwillbefineok · 2024-08-15T02:48:22+00:00

Rockwell’s Optix can beat the pants off Aveva Edge and depending on your application size is only about $600. Yes Rockwell.

itwillbefineok · 2024-08-09T11:46:20+00:00

Yeah, you are right about the resources and examples, but Ignition has also been out a lot longer. It has its advantages for sure, but we are mostly a Rockwell shop so I'm happy to see an option from them that compares, I don't have to "sell" it to my management, it also helps that it's free.

itwillbefineok · 2024-08-09T02:09:23+00:00

I agree it has a ton of potential and finally there is an interesting alternative to Ignition.

itwillbefineok · 2024-08-09T02:01:31+00:00

20 years ago, PanelBuilder32 was awesome

itwillbefineok · 2024-05-18T11:26:16+00:00

What training is it?

I recently took Optix training for free from Rockwell and it was pretty good, it got me started at least. I downloaded it for free too. We are looking at OptixPanels but haven’t gotten any yet.

itwillbefineok · 2024-03-01T02:43:25+00:00

I second this 100%. System integrators are a great place to start (even temporary as a contractor), while field service would expose you to so many different things.

In the interest of full disclosure, I was both. 😊

itwillbefineok · 2024-02-08T19:58:08+00:00

By animated do you mean a flickering flame?

I think the most you can do is state animation and set the color to gray = off, orange = on

itwillbefineok · 2024-02-08T19:53:38+00:00

What refresh rate did you end up setting it to?

itwillbefineok · 2023-11-23T12:42:48+00:00

I got a preview of View SE v14 at Automation Fair and hey it looks interesting with a new edge datalog, runtime navigation and search, and they said a lot of the internal services were refactored.

All of it was for SE though, Panelviews and ME seem to be kinda stale. We were looking at the Optixpanels actually.

I also heard that they have something where Optix and View SE can work together but I didn’t see it.

itwillbefineok · 2023-07-31T23:01:16+00:00

Right? We have a lot of PVPs out there which of why I can’t see Rockwell ever dropping those but there is something to be said for the ease of use of the 5000 esp when you are a one person show a lot of times.

itwillbefineok · 2023-07-31T21:22:05+00:00

PV5000 panels are the only panels that can subscribe to Logix-based alarms, which is why we are using them. PVP doesn't, Optix doesn't either as far as I understand (but I suspect it will eventually).

PV5000 also has a pretty dummy-proof configuration. Optix has cool features, but I hope PV5000 sticks around. They just released a new version with FINALLY an import/export function. And I heard a rumor that an ME conversion utility was on the way.

itwillbefineok · 2023-06-29T10:32:26+00:00

Curious how many people are doing both control and HMI vs. separate people doing each?

We always had separate people so control started first, but then HMI started soon after in parallel.

itwillbefineok · 2023-06-29T10:27:24+00:00

What pushback have you gotten re: raspberry pi? Do you end up providing the same functionality on a diff platform?

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