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

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AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA

Enable AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA to detect unchanged source values beyond a configured interval and continue sending the last known value with refreshed timestamps until a new source event is received

This enhancement is required so the AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA can functionally match ABB 800xA / Vtrin RTDB historical behavior while preserving existing PI System and Asset Framework functionality. The customer would like this capability implement...
Guest 1 day ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA No status

An option to store symmetric keys in a file - OPC UA

It would be helpful to be able to read network trace between OPC UA Server and Adapter even if communication is encrypted. This possibility is described here https://www.unified-automation.com/news/news-details/analyzing-encrypted-opc-ua-traffic-w...
Guest 27 days ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA No status

PI Tag Mapping configuration in the background of PI OPC UA Adapter to use Point ID

The CSV / JSON file in the background will have the mapping between the OPC UA Server tag against its' respective PI Tag Name. In such case, if we need to change the tag name after sometime, then which results in multiple process like stop the Ada...
Guest about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA No status

PI Adapters should handle good NULL Values like PI Connectors and submit to the archive

A PI Connector reading a Null value in good quality send it to the Archive A PI Adapter skip the value, this gives in the archive a wrong picture. please enable the PI Adapter to submit also Null values with good quality to the archive like PI Con...
Guest 2 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA No status

Enable AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA to work with OPC UA Servers that only allow Dynamic Addressing and Virtual Browsing

Some OPC UA Servers have the concept of Dynamic Namespace Addressing and Virtual Browsing. The UA Nodes do not exist in the OPC UA Address Space. Nodeids are created\added to the Address Space only when a Client makes a request for the NodeIds thr...
Guest 3 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA No status

Automated discovery on a schedule

Enable Regular Discovery: While not continuous by default, discovery can be scripted or scheduled to run periodically for dynamic environments include this as a feature, so that automatic discovery and automatic addition of new discoveries can be ...
Guest 4 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA No status

Error handling for OPC UA Server nodes with "Null" data type

Using a combination of Honeywell Experion OPC UA and the Aveva OPC UA Adapter, we have observed that when an instrument physically fails in the field or goes offline / stops sending communication to the Experion server, it may appear in the Honeyw...
ChrisMcKee 4 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA No status

Pi adapter OPCua able to rename pi-tags

As per title
Guest 5 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA Tell us more

Include the "Include variables having historical data only" flag for the OPC UA Adapter

The OPC UA Connector has a feature that should also be included with the AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA : UserAccessLevel=HistoryRead - No real time data to subscribe for and only has historical data stored Please add this feature to the adapter.
Guest 6 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA Tell us more

OPC UA Adapter Create Tag on Discovery

For the OPC UA Adapter, we are noticing that a tag won't be created until a data point comes in after the tag is added to the data filter. That causes issues for slow updating tags. For instance an open/shut valve that is rarely operated. We have ...
Guest 9 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA Future consideration