CONNECT feedback portal

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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™ Adapters

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

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

Adapter for BACnet - defaultStreamIdPattern add ObjectName as possible parameter

Currently, for the Adapter for BACnet its [Data source parameters] defaultStreamIdPattern does not have an option to include the ObjectName in the defaultStreamIdPattern. It would be good to include this as a possible parameter for the defaultStre...
Guest 28 days ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for BACnet No status

PI Adaptor for Perfmon

To move to next gen AVEVA tech, and perform a migration to Adaptors, critical monitoring with perfmon adaptor (Instead of Interface for PIPerfMon) would be ideal. Portability of using linux, docker etc. and having this data be available in AVEVA D...
Guest about 1 month ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / New Connectivity 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
108 VOTE

PI Adapter for OPC UA should be able to write outputs to the OPC UA Server

The PI Adapter should be able to create a data pipe listener on certain streams (unsolicited reads) that would trigger the writes back to the OPC UA Server. This is useful when providing set points to the equipment without the need of establishin...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA Future consideration

Native MQTT Publishing (Egress) to Support Unified Namespace (UNS) Architectures

Description & Use Case: As the manufacturing industry shifts toward Industry 4.0 and Unified Namespace (UNS) architectures, data must flow seamlessly between all systems in a publish/subscribe model. The AVEVA PI System is exceptional at inges...
Guest about 2 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for MQTT No status

Support for additional Complex Data Types for all Adapters

Request to enhance the Adapters to support more complex data types, specifically value/quality pairs. While some Adapters currently support geolocation and coordinate complex data types, they do not all support value/quality data types. In industr...
Derek Wong over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General No status

Start/stop components to be retained on restart

Currently it is possible to stop a component for a running adapter. However, if the adapter is restarted the component will automatically start up. It would allow for extra control during commissioning, downtime, incidents, etc. to be able to disa...
Mike Horrocks 6 months ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / General No status

GUI Front End for UA Adapter

The OPC UA Adapter is a replacement for the OPC UA Connector and should thus provide similar functionality by providing a GUI.
Jonathan Brutt almost 3 years ago in AVEVA™ Adapters / AVEVA Adapter for OPC UA In development