There is no artificial limit on number of items inside ReadMultipleItemValues.

To further qualify what I wrote above, which may explain the behavior in some instances, when the EasyDAClient.Dispose is called or the instance is finalized, the disconnection may happen immediately, without applying the hold period. In such case, using a single instance would resolve it.

Yes, Live Binding is only for Windows Forms.

You can safely call EasyDAClient.ReadItemValue every 5 seconds or so, that's one of the usage cases we have designed for. With the default settings (when the Isolated property of the EasyDAClient instance is set to false), there would be very little difference whether you use a single EasyDAClient instance, or a new instance each time - in both cases a common connection will be shared.

You are seeing connections and disconnections because the time between the operations is longer than our "hold period" - the time we keep the connection when it's not in use. The hold period can be configured to be longer, in which case you should start seeing a steady, uninterrupted OPC connection.

You should place exception handling around the ReadItemValue call, and catch OpcException. In it, there will be an InnerException with details.

It is true that the trial license only gives valid data for 30 minutes since the process was started. We often issue an evaluation license to customers who need it, typically with 30 days validity and no further limitations. I can do the same for you, but would like to see a confirmation from your side that you have caught the exception and the exception indicates a licensing problem - pls post the message text of the outer and inner exception here.

Best regards

Thanks for you interest in our products.
I am missing details (and I do not quite understand) to this part of your explanation:

"Then the server stops due to an error."

Does it mean that something happens on the OPC server side? What? Is there a specific error message? Is the OPC client side (your program) also affected? How?

Thank you

BTW, which programming language is this in?

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Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 8:56 AM
To: Zbynek Zahradnik
Subject: RE: OPC Labs Contact Form - Demo license EasyOPC.NEt

Hi,

I’m using v5.32 and it works fine.

My goal is to have an OPC Client installed on the server side updating a local object.
Then I use SignalR to push this object out to the clients.

On my ASP.NET server side I made a procedure (ProcessValues.cs) with a Timer that trigger every 5 second.

First I call this:Second I call this (SignalR 2 hub):
When I run this it runs fine for about 10 minutes. Then the server stops due to an error.
The problem is the “function TryUpdateProcessValues(oeevalues oeevalues)” because of the code:
var client = new EasyDAClient();
object value = client.ReadItemValue(“ArchestrA.FSGateway.3”,”OPC.Devicegroup.Value”);
which trigger every 5 seconds.

So, maybe I must use LiveBinding or ???

Else I have to rewrite the code in such a way that the “var client = new EasyDAClient();” runs only once in an initial code segment.

Please give me feedback or suggestion – Thanks 


With best regards,
P.