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PI Interface for OPC DA

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PI OPCtoCSV Tool: Subbranch filter depth

The PI Interface for OPC DA is packaged with the PI OPCtoCSV tool which extracts all OPC Items. It is possible to filter the items by subbranch however it recurses all sub-subbranches. We have an OPC server with around 20k items that we read into ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Allow OPC DA  Output Tags to capture OOO events

Currently there is no way to send corrected values to the OPC DA Server since they are triggered by snapshot. It would be useful if there was a way to alter the values that get sent in case there are substituted/replaced values.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Automatic restart of the OPC interface whenever OPC server is restarted

whenever the OPC server undergoes any restarts or configuration changes, the OPC interface will delete all old connections, groups, etc. and it will establish a new connection to the OPC server, loading all ItemID's etc (as if it is an automatic r...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 2 No status

PI interface for OPC .. UA

it would be useful to have an interface that can connect and retrieve data from OPC UA server. it will help to avoid using any additional software for "downgrading" the protocol to OPC at client side.
ValterFostini over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 2 No status

Interface should reload performance counters after failover and keep track of them.

The interface should be designed to reload counters both at startup and when becoming the active interface after a failover. The interface should realize the counter is not available and periodically attempt to reload (ideally with a message to th...
Nicolas Capera about 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Support dynamic OPC addresses

My OPC server's items have the OPC server node name included in the itemID, for example: serverA.AB_1234.PV. I have redundant OPC servers and redundant interfaces (in failover) and would like the tags to refer to the correct OPC address including ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Allow automatic interface restart based on Device Status

In some cases, such as when using a tunneller, the PI interface for OPC DA requires a restart to resume collecting data. A feature that allows an automatic restart of the service based on the value of the Device status Health tag would avoid human...
Alberto Tedesco over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Fix Bug for OPCInt_ReadWrite_2.7.2.20_.exe with Plug-in

I have high-frequency data need to collect,when i use OPC DA Plug-in TimeArray of OPCInt_ReadWrite_2.7.2.20_.exe ,it does not work.then i uninstall the opc interface 2.7.2.20 and install OPC DA 2.7.1.41,The Plug-in TimeArray work well.
Guest 6 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 2 Tell us more

Convert incoming string data to float and provide division all in the same tag instead of a PE

OPC server is outputting data with the currency data type (VT_CY) and it needs to be stored in the float type.  As per the OPCtoCSV document, the OPCtoCSV tool/OPC interface invokes VariantChangeType in order to convert this currency value to...
jagdish.konathala over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

OPC DA, A&E historical recovery

We have seen that the primary OPC interface will be connected but we don't see data coming across since the OPC server itself seems to have a problem. Since the connection is still active we won't failover to the secondary. We have to leave Notifi...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status