Author: ericains
Ready for Windows 10: Introducing OL Monitor 2.0!
(Still fully compatible with Windows 7 of course) It’s here! After months of coding the new OL Monitor is ready. 2.0 sports the Windows 10 look and also now supports Windows 7 styles as well. Some key new features have also been added along with one that I had previously believed was not possible. This
New Years ProcTime fix
Every January 1st after midnight, OL Monitor incorrectly calculates the ProcTime on previous year’s tests due to the fact that the Collect Times and Receive Times appear in the logfiles as month/day only, not specifying year. Year is pulled from log date but on New Years Day (and beyond if tests hang unresulted) this produces
Getting past SSH prompts in OL Monitor macro. “Stringwait has timed out”
Previous versions of Smarterm had a pretty involved series of steps to save the SSH connection password. This appears to be gone in recent versions and we are presented with a new step in the login process: So what a lot of people are running into is that the macro will hang up at this
New updater and update notifier for OL Monitor
Youtube demo on Updater/Notifier: https://youtu.be/FsPZEVhrKaw The old updater that was integrated with the installer was having a number of issues. Although it seems to be working now, I felt we could do a lot better. Now included in versions 1.90m and higher is a new and vastly improved updater: Features of updater: Checks your current
Problems with the Public folder
Symptoms of this problem: The Smarterm session is trying to connect to the wrong IP address. You have set the IP address in Ol Monitor setting but Smarterm is not using that IP. Ol Monitor not refreshing. Getting message “unable to locate…” Ol Monitor is losing settings changes and you have been using ini file
Ol Monitor Updater error messages
Lately there have been some issues with the Ol Monitor updater. The short answer is: a: click past the error messages, be unreasonably patient, and it eventually works, or b: use the direct download links I sent to you in email. If you use the updater here is what to expect: 1. You will get
Ol Monitor OverSeer
Previously only mentioned in the Spring 2013 newsletter, OverSeer takes more of a hammer approach to OL Monitors having issues. Recently (OverSeer versions 1.0.5 and above) OverSeer has been refactored and a number of issues fixed. OverSeer can be useful if you have an OL Monitor that crashes occasionally and just needs a restart. Although
New feature added–Filter Toggle
A user had a great idea for a feature to quickly turn on/off individual filters from the main window. This might be useful to handle workload during different times of the day or shifts. This feature is available in versions 1.89k and higher.| <—The checkmark indicates the filter is active. Here the filter MDIFF has
New HRP options and Order Entry Error Report. OL Monitor version 1.88j.
Adding the OEE HRP report to Ol Monitor caused a cascade of changes to the macro and options window. The following changes appear in version 1.88j: Toggle OL log report from Misc tab: You can now turn ON/OFF the OL log from the Misc tab. Previously this was present in both the HRP and PL
