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PI Interfaces

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Support Analysis Backfill of Source Tag

Many of our source tags sending data to a central Data Archive are populated with data from analyses on the source AF Server. This creates two problems when we perform a backfill that recalculates data over a specified timespan for the source tag:...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 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

Enhance element creation to use user defined element templates

The interface can automatically create an element at each level of event frames, but the elements do not derive from a template and there is no way to specify any attributes on the element. The enhancement request is to create elements that are ba...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

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

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 over 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 over 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 over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 1 No status