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PI Interfaces

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PI EMDVB Interface - Rename Parsed Files

PI EMDVB Interface - Rename Parsed Files.  Files that get renamed to .999 is no longer available with PI EMDVB.  This file renaming feature was very useful from a system maintenance perspective.  We would easily remove .999 from the...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

PI EFGen 4.1+ has limited recovery capabilities

Up to PI EFGen 4.0, we were able to backfill OOO Event Frames by simply inputting the start and end time of the corresponding period. Since 4.1, this must be done in a per-event basis, since larger time ranges are modified so that RST matches the ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 No status

Add a Trace Route feature to PI Ping interface

Add ping -i feature to the interface and allow for either the output of the ping time or destination in the PI tag. Case: This will allow for IT to monitor the network path taken in communication from one site to another. If the route has change...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

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) about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 0 No status

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 4 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 Declined

Add Mod10 to Custom Data Type Manipulator for Modbus Interface

Please add support for SquareD Mod10 custom datatype to the Modbus Interface. Schneider Electric uses a custom datatype that uses four 16 bit registers. Each register represents an integer. Each integer is then multiplied by a factor and all resu...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interfaces for Modbus 0 No status

Enhance connection logic to source PI server during Interface startup

When PitoPi Interface starts up, it prints a message saying that it secured a connection with the Target or Host PI server as follows:  PIAPI Successfully connected to :5450. Then it begins to load target PI points and it starts looking for t...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 0 No status

Add functionality to the interface to adjust timestamps by a configurable amount

This enhancement would add the ability to adjust timestamps to the PI to PI Interface (Beyond the included options for clock drift and subseconds). Potentially, a setting could be supplied to change the timestamps on all data transferred by a spec...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 1 No status

Please add a DAYOFWEEK function to the UFL interface

Can you please add a DAYOFWEEK function to the available functions in the UFL interface. This will greatly assist with the handling of daylight savings transitions (e.g. first sunday in April) as there is currently no easy way of determining the ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status

UFL Designer should include a test mode to verify INI behavior with a data file.

One can do this, to some extent, piecemeal with functionality the UFL Designer already has. However, it's a very manual process and does not actually have a way to show what data would be sent to PI for a particular file. An explicit test mode or ...
Guest about 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 0 No status