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PI Interfaces

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change the default behavior of the OPC DA interface to use /DC

per the OPC DA 2.x spec, the OPC server will call us back for all points that have a changes; even those points where we are polling. We have a switch to disable the callbacks for points that are not set to advise: /DC Can we make that the defau...
Clint Ramsey over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

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

Uni-Int to write to scan-class health tags on startup

We've noticed this particularly with the RDBMS-PI interface when configured for failover: Health tags that are only written to when the interface becomes primary or has completed its first scan (eg Point Count, Scan Class I/O Rate etc.) say 'Intf ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

DeltaV Smart Connector Enhancement

I think it would be a good idea to allow exception settings to be created. The DeltaV history collection settings only allow for compression. Since many/most users use 1/2 compression for their exception value then perhaps we could have a check bo...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 0 No status

Separate commonly used PI Interfaces that do not have a successor into read-only and write-only versions

Currently, it is recommended to use the read-only version of a PI Interface if only reading is required, and to have separate read and write instances of the read-write version of a PI Interface if writing is required. (Reference: https://docs.osi...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / General 1 No status

Allow using SQL as a data source for FactoryTalk Batch

Rockwell FactoryTalk Batch v12.01 allows to output batch data to a SQL database as well as EVT files. Just like with EMDVB, the PI Interface for FTBatch should be able to use both data sources.
Alan Izar over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 Declined

OPC AE: add history recovery feature

There is a stronger market demand to have more alarm data in PI so that the alarms can be analysed together with the process data. Existing (as of Oct 2019) PI OPC AE Interface does not support history recovery. Without the history recovery featur...
AM(CSL) over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

PI AMI Itron Interface support for TLS1.3

PI AMI Itron Interface currently supports TLS1.1. Microsoft ended support for TLS1.1 in March 2020. To keep the PI AMI Itron Interface usable with latest browsers, please update to support TLS1.3.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 Evaluating

Enhance pitopi.ini sections to include point source to make them unique

The pitopi.ini file is used by the pitopi interface for collecting data from multiple sources and to save other miscellaneous settings such as 'histonly' flags. The configuration ini file uses sections to separate settings between instances with a...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 2 No status

PItoPI should give indication when it is stuck querying a corrupt source archive

Currently, PItoPI interface can get "stuck" if it is querying a source data archive that is corrupt with no indication that this is what's happening.  It appears to be sending data to the destination server, but no data is received.  It ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 1 No status