I'm currently building an alarm annunciator for speech to text alarms spread out over multiple areas and where there may be multiple alarms active at the same time. I was wondering if there was an option, or if it can be done through scripting, to replay the list of unacknowledged alarms after a set time out and then repeat the cycle until all the alarms have been acknowledged. This would be for audio output only, not text/email/sms notifications. I'm trying to learn as I go here so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi and welcome to the support forum. VTScada has a built in feature that already does a lot of what you're asking for, have a look at this help system article: https://www.vtscada.com/help/Content/D_AlarmSystem/Dev_SpokenAlarms.htm If the built in alarm speech isn't a close enough fit for your requirements then you'll need to consider writing a custom script to do what's needed. First steps are a full software level requirements capture from the VTScada perspective, including: - What PCs do the sounds play on - servers, clients (runtime and/or VIC and/or Anywhere?) - Are the same alarms annunciations played on all servers and/or clients? - Are there filters applied for different users types? - Redundancy requirements - do these only play on active servers, not backup servers? - Etc. With these questions sorted, the next step will be to determine if the player needs to run in the user session (for thin clients) or as a service (servers and runtime clients). And then on to creating a script to do the actual work. The script would take on something of the following (help links included): 1. Setup the speech engine (https://www.vtscada.com/help/Content/Scripting/Tasks/pro_WorkWithSpeech.htm) 2. Query alarm database for unack'ed alarms with filters as needed (https://www.vtscada.com/help/Content/D_LogAndReport/Dev_ODBCTableStructure.htm?tocpath=Use%20VTScada%7CLog%252C%20Note%252C%20and%20Report%7CSQL%20Queries%7C_____2#TableAlarms) 3. Are there unack'ed alarms present - Yes, go to step #4, No, go to step #5. 4. Play required portions of the alarm text through speech engine (https://www.vtscada.com/help/Content/Scripting/Tasks/pro_WorkWithSpeech.htm) 5. Delay for appropriate amount of time (https://www.vtscada.com/help/Content/Pro_Functions/TimeOut.htm) 6. Return to step #2 & repeat Hope that helps.