AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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PI Interface for Bacnet: Adding support of ObjectType=Timer

We would like to get a value of ObjectType=Timer object in PI BACNet interface but it is not supported. One of the Timer object contains important time setting and we need to check it every month. However currently we need to check the value from ...
Kenji Hashimoto 6 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 Declined

Enhance the PI-ICU to include a rolling buffer regardless of connection to the PI Data Archive

During a Disaster Recovery test our team discovered that there will be up to 24 hours of data loss since our VM's are cloned once a day and the PI-ICU interfaces don't start caching data until the data archive has been disconnected. Essentially - ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 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

choose PI API Version during installation

At the moment PI API 1.x without Windows Integrated Security is installed as standard. For customers who want to use PI API 2.x with Windows Integrated Security an additional installation is needed. please include both APIs in install-pack and ask...
FranzK over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Installation 2 Declined

Option for PI Interface for UFL to purge read-only files

Create an option to allow the PI Interface for UFL to delete files with the read-only attribute.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

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

OPC DA interface to read data for advise and polled tags at startup

If digital tags are part of advise groups and the flag to write "Intf Shut" is enabled in the OPC DA interface, then digital tags can read "Intf Shut" for hours/days/weeks, if the value does not change after an interface restart (for example, 2 pu...
caffreys_col over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

Preferring a primary interface failover member

hen the primary Interface becomes available and healthy again, it becomes "back up". I need the primary Interface to become the "primary" whenever it is healthy. https://pisquare.osisoft.com/thread/42591-revert-back-to-primary-data-collector
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 1 No status

Use /opcstopstat when both interfaces in failover pair are shut down

We would like to have some sort of digital state such as "Intf Shut" written to all OPC tags when both interfaces in a failover pair are shut down. Currently, the /opcstopstat and /stopstat parameters (which write a specified state to all tags wh...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status