auto.spy analyzer Revision History
2025.1
Main application
- Due to the change of tracetronic's corporate design, the AutoSPY Analyzer has also received fresh colors and graphics at some points. In addition, the spelling of the product name has been changed to auto.spy analyzer. (AS-224, TTS-40543, TTS-42068)
- Support for Windows XP and Windows Vista has ended. auto.spy now requires Windows 7 or higher to run. It is also approved for use on Windows 11. (AS-214, AS-259)
- ASTRACE documents can now also be opened using Drag'n'Drop by dragging the file onto the auto.spy application window. (TTS-46968)
- The File menu offers a new function that opens the location of the active document in the file manager and selects the file in it. (TTS-45281)
- For ASTRACE files, the Zstandard compression algorithm is now used internally. This allows ASTRACEs to be written and read significantly faster, while the file size remains about the same. New documents are not backwards compatible and cannot be opened by previous versions of auto.spy. (TTS-44992)
- In the program options, the application currently running can be registered as the default for opening auto.spy files. If needed, these file associations can be removed. (TTS-48716)
- The menu item File > Create Template... can be used to create templates (*.astemplate) from existing ASTRACE documents, which contain all data sources and their configuration, but no signal data. Via File > New from Template..., empty ASTRACE documents can then be created from existing templates, which can be used immediately for new recordings. All signals and their visualization settings are available in this way without the need for reconfiguration. (TTS-29868)
- The new function File > Clean up... creates a new ASTRACE document from an existing one that only contains the selected signal data. Everything else is removed. (TTS-41443)
- The View menu has a new entry to reset the position and visibility of all toolbars to their default settings. (TTS-39833)
- Global shortcuts like F11 or Ctrl+F also work when a dockable window has the input focus. (TTS-40829)
- New dimension chains for measuring time can be easily created via the context menu of selected entries in the flag list. (TTS-40822)
- The search function now works much faster and also supports text-value signals (character, string). (TTS-36485)
- The search function provides new comparison operations has sample/has no sample to find the next point in time when a signal has an (arbitrary) sample or no sample anymore. (TTS-39254)
- The search function provides two new options for letting the search wrap around at document boundaries and for explicitly reporting all findings for a defined signal condition. Also, the search workflow has been made more user-friendly. (TTS-39259)
- Floating-point signals can be searched for nan (invalid) and +inf/-inf (infinite) values. (TTS-39033)
- Double-clicking on a signal header in a view allows you to jump directly to the corresponding entry in the Signals toolbox. Navigating from the toolbox to the view works in the same way. (TTS-48099)
- Double-clicking on a video signal selects the corresponding video in the Video toolbox for viewing. The toolbox also contains a new button for automatic synchronization. When it is activated, the displayed video in the toolbox and the selection of the corresponding signal entry in the graph/table view are synchronized. (TTS-47350)
- If the shown signals in a document only cover a few seconds or minutes, the time axis of the graph view is zoomed when opening the file so that the entire drawing space is utilized. (TTS-49670)
- The space for the signal headers, signal axes and sample bar in the graph view can be quickly adjusted to the optimal width by double-clicking on the section dividers. (TTS-41096)
- Signal curves can be resized so that the entire height of the graph view is used. The new command Optimize Signal Heights distributes all displayed signals equally over the available vertical drawing height. (TTS-40827)
- The Reset time offset command can be used to reset the time offset of a signal to its original value. (TTS-39834)
- Manually and automatically generated signal groups can now be used in parallel. When creating new groups, not only signals but also existing signal groups can be included. (TTS-44508)
- In the table view, individual cell values or entire rows can now be copied to the clipboard via a context menu. It is also possible to copy information from the Measure toolbox. (TTS-37122)
- The import function now also supports video files, for example MP4, AVI or MKV. (TTS-43266)
- The CSV import is able to save specific settings for each CSV file in a sidecar file (*.info) and automatically apply these settings when importing the signal data. (TTS-47327)
- The CSV export provides significantly more options to configure the formatting of the signal data output. (TTS-39566)
- auto.spy Scripting API: The Signal.GetIndexAtTime() method reliably returns a sample index even for the last timestamp of a signal. (TTS-40084)
- The list of all changes since the last software version (changelog) can no longer be accessed via the Windows Start menu, but via the Revision History... item in the Help menu. (AS-248)
- Fixed a bug that caused the application to crash when both the time and flag columns were fully minimized (dragged to a width of zero) in table view. (TTS-37509)
- Fixed a bug that could cause the application to crash during a running recording when using the feature for automatic document splitting. (AS-220)
- Fixed a bug that could cause the application to crash when trying to import unsupported file formats. (AS-212)
- Fixed a bug that caused gaps between consecutive recording intervals to be removed when importing ASTRACE documents. (AS-247)
All device drivers for SIMATIC S7
- The communication library ACCON-AGLink has been updated to support newer Siemens hardware and software. (AS-282)
- Signal selection (online and offline) of projects from STEP7 TIA Portal V19 and V20
- Access to S7-1500 CPUs with FW 4.0 and S7-1200 CPUs with FW 4.6.1
- Access to S7-PLCSIM Advanced V5, V6, V7 and OpenController 1507S with FW 30.1
Device driver SIMATIC S7-1200/1500 cycle-precise
- A new driver enables the cycle-precise data logging from SIMATIC S7-1200/1500 PLCs. (AS-100)
- Record signals cycle-precisely from up to 16 PLCs simultaneously
- Select up to 512 signals per PLC directly from projects of STEP7 TIA portal
- Configure the size of the data buffer in the PLC individually
- Requires at least TIA Portal V17 and TIA Portal Openness to be installed
- No PUT/GET communication between PLC and PC required
Device driver SIMATIC S7-1200/1500 polling-precise
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the signal selection of DB operands by copy'n'paste of TIA watch table tags if the data blocks were located in subfolders of the PLC program. (AS-99)