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AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

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Suppress the creation of "Status Flag" PI Points

The end-user would like to suppress the creation of the "Status Flag" PI Points, as they wish to keep their point count to a minimum due to the license-enforced point limit.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Program objects (BACnet object type 16) also bought through by the connector

The program object description is often very useful to understand what the various object instances relate to. At our site the description holds the Asset designation and that would allow correct assignment of the analogue and binary object instan...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Support string data types for PI Connector for EtherNet/IP

String data, such as serial numbers, are supported by the EtherNet/IP protocol and are often collected to help understand what was being made by a piece of equipment at any given time.
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Connector provides Timestamps

The EtherNet/IP protocol does not specify timestamps when data is transmitted, the connector currently assigns the timestamps base on when the data is being processed. This leads to the following issue, if the network/computer/etc gets busy, we w...
Allison Muraski over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Log device information when the Connector receives errors from a device

Currently the Connector logs when it receives errors, but does not print information that can be used to determine which device is reporting the errors. We currently need to perform a wireshark trace to look at the individual packets to determine...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Distribute-Broadcast-To-Network broadcast for Discovery Tool and Connector

When running the discovery tool from a subnet with no BBMD to query BACnet devices on a separate subnet, it seems like the auto discovery tool is seen as a ‘foreign device’, so the devices do not respond correctly. When analyzing a Wireshark trac...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Allow the BACnet Connector to handle responses with an LVT that does not match the request

Currently the BACnet Connector expects devices to respond with the same "Length Value, and Type" (LVT) value as the request. When this occurs the BACnet Connector cannot parse the data in the response. For example: Request from Connector, LVT=1 Re...
Nico Cha almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status

Need EtherNet/IP connector to be able to read and write.

Need EtherNet/IP connector to be able to read and write. Currently EtherNet/IP connector is read only.
Francis2 over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Have Option to Enable Exception Testing

Related enhancement request: https://feedback.osisoft.com/forums/555139/suggestions/37362121. There are use cases where the need for exception go beyond simply reducing network traffic achieved by the current wire-level compression. The Ethernet ...
Guest over 3 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for Ethernet/IP 0 No status

Increase the maximum timeout for the BACnet Discovery Utility with the PI Connector for BACnet

If a user has many BACnet devices/objects discoveries can take some time. Since the BACnet Discovery Utility has a maximum timeout of 240 seconds, this utility can cannot be used in these scenarios and manual creation of the csv is required which ...
Nico C almost 2 years ago in PI Connectors / PI Connector for BACnet 0 No status