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@dhunt84971 dhunt84971 released this 27 Sep 20:00
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v1.0.0
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The first release of Append HMI Studio: design operator screens for PLCs, run them against live equipment, and publish them as Windows installers for the target PC.

Features

  • Screen design on a diagram canvas, with a tag dictionary, animation links (colors, fill, movement, size, rotation about any point, visibility, blink, value display) and touch links (pushbuttons, action scripts, user input, sliders, show/hide window).
  • PLC communications through the bundled hmi-comms server:
    • EtherNet/IP ControlLogix/CompactLogix (Micro800 too);
    • SLC 5/05 and MicroLogix;
    • Modbus TCP;
    • a built-in simulator.
  • Alarms:
    • analog limits with deadband, and discrete alarms;
    • ISA-18.2 acknowledgement;
    • the _AlarmsActive, _AlarmsUnacked and _AckAll system tags, and .InAlarm/.Acked dotfields;
    • Alarm List and Alarm History objects;
    • daily CSV history, kept 90 days.
  • Retentive memory tags keep their last value between runs.
  • Users and security:
    • users with access levels 0 to 9999;
    • a built-in login window, and login script functions (ShowLogin, Login, Logout, ChangePassword, ShowUserManager);
    • the _Username and _AccessLevel system tags;
    • masked password entry, the Enable animation, and auto logout.
  • Publish (HMI > Publish) builds a Windows installer of a locked, run-only runtime with the comms server:
    • kiosk, full-screen or window mode;
    • exit policy;
    • it can be built on Linux or Windows.
  • Automation: --hmi-build, --hmi-check, --hmi-render, --hmi-dump and --hmi-publish build, check, render and publish projects from a JSON spec, with no UI. It comes with a Claude Code skill for AI agents.

Downloads

File Platform
Append-HMI-Studio-1.0.0-Setup.exe Windows 10/11 x64, installs for all users (silent: /S)
Append-HMI-Studio-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage Linux x64, runs without installing
Append-HMI-Studio-1.0.0-amd64.deb Debian/Ubuntu (sudo apt install ./Append-HMI-Studio-1.0.0-amd64.deb)

Known issues

  • The installers are not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen asks for confirmation on first run.
  • There is no automatic update. Install new versions over the old one.

Append HMI Studio is built on the draw.io editor and drawio-desktop by JGraph Ltd, under the Apache License 2.0. See NOTICE.

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