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enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
14 Jun 2016 06:39 #4136
by support
Replied by support on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
Here it goes.
Best regards
// This example shows how to write a value into a single node.
using OpcLabs.EasyOpc.UA;
class WriteValue
{
public static void Main()
{
// Instantiate the client object
var easyUAClient = new EasyUAClient();
// Modify value of a node
easyUAClient.WriteValue(
"http://opcua.demo-this.com:51211/UA/SampleServer", //or "opc.tcp://opcua.demo-this.com:51210/UA/SampleServer"
"nsu=http://test.org/UA/Data/;i=10221",
12345);
}
}Best regards
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14 Jun 2016 06:04 #4135
by toha0893
Replied by toha0893 on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
Microsoft visual studio 2013 and I am used to C++. However for a short example C# should not present a problem.
Thank you
Thank you
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13 Jun 2016 13:49 #4133
by support
Replied by support on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
The examples on the Web are not meant for real development. The Web is a marketing vehicle, not a documentation. The true examples of the product usage are contained within the product itself - you need to install the trial version to get them. FYI, their list is here: www.opclabs.com/files/documents/QuickOpc/Latest/Concepts-QuickOPC.pdf .
For your usage, however, the way I understand it, you will probably need just a simple "write", and not much more. I can point you to the right example for that and even copy it over here - which programming language/tool do you expect to use? Is it C# ?
For your usage, however, the way I understand it, you will probably need just a simple "write", and not much more. I can point you to the right example for that and even copy it over here - which programming language/tool do you expect to use? Is it C# ?
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13 Jun 2016 12:27 #4131
by toha0893
Replied by toha0893 on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
The important part for us is, that it can be done the way I described it. Can you at least offer any suggestions where to look for guidance? There have to be some common steps regardless of the application when using QuickOPC.
You provide a lot of examples on this website, (e.g.: Accessing OPC from inside SQL Server (SQLCLR), using QuickOPC-COM), however many files are marked as obsolete.
You provide a lot of examples on this website, (e.g.: Accessing OPC from inside SQL Server (SQLCLR), using QuickOPC-COM), however many files are marked as obsolete.
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13 Jun 2016 09:42 #4124
by support
Replied by support on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
We do the OPC part. What you are asking about differs from app to app, and is outside of the scope our product is intended to cover.
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13 Jun 2016 09:40 #4123
by toha0893
Replied by toha0893 on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
That is exactly what is required for the time being. Sending the string to some OPC UA Server using QuickOPC. The Question for me is how to do that?
I watched the examples on how to write into tags on an OPC UA server, how to read tags using QuickOPC and more… and it is really simple. Can do both without problems. I however don’t understand how to access the string that I am trying to send and how to send it. Theoretically accessing it either from the SCADA or the postgreSQL Database would be OK.
I watched the examples on how to write into tags on an OPC UA server, how to read tags using QuickOPC and more… and it is really simple. Can do both without problems. I however don’t understand how to access the string that I am trying to send and how to send it. Theoretically accessing it either from the SCADA or the postgreSQL Database would be OK.
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13 Jun 2016 08:44 #4121
by support
Replied by support on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
OK I thing I start to understand. In this case you can use QuickOPC to simply send the whole string to some OPC server that will understand it, OR you can decode the string in your app, and send it "in parts" using the same method.
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13 Jun 2016 07:45 #4120
by toha0893
Replied by toha0893 on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
Well the Plan was not to use an OPC UA Server in the SCADA package at all. Just to implement a client “somewhere” in the SCADA package and send the described DATA over an OPC UA connection to an OPC UA Server embedded somewhere in the Customers Network. 1way file transfer or flailing that, 1way Data transfer from the SCADA or a postgreSQL Database to the Customers OPCUA Server is all that is required for the 4.5gen.
I know this is not how OPC UA is supposed to work… However this is just an intermediary step. One that was believed to be achievable really quickly with QuickOPC, so that development of a new gen. 5 application that fully supports OPCUA can begin.
I know this is not how OPC UA is supposed to work… However this is just an intermediary step. One that was believed to be achievable really quickly with QuickOPC, so that development of a new gen. 5 application that fully supports OPCUA can begin.
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10 Jun 2016 12:51 #4117
by support
Replied by support on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
It would be useful if you can provide a block diagram of the intended solution, or a description of it.
Because, as far as I can tell, either you want to do something very untypical, or you have misunderstood how OPC clients and servers are supposed to work.
A SCADA package, typically, may use OPC for two things:
1) Achieve communication with lower layers - the technology: e.g. field devices, controllers, sometimes directly sensors. Some of the technology might have/be an OPC server. The SCADA package will then contain an OPC client piece, and use it to communicate with the technology. In this case, however, the OPC client would talk the OPC protocol to the OPC servers, and no such messages as in your example would appear between the OPC server and the OPC client, or in the SCADA software: It would be a task of the OPC server (separate from the SCADA package) to take care of the protocol encoding/decoding.
2) Provide communication with higher layers (e.g. MES or ERP systems). In this case, however, the SCADA package will be normally acting as an OPC server, not an OPC client.
Because, as far as I can tell, either you want to do something very untypical, or you have misunderstood how OPC clients and servers are supposed to work.
A SCADA package, typically, may use OPC for two things:
1) Achieve communication with lower layers - the technology: e.g. field devices, controllers, sometimes directly sensors. Some of the technology might have/be an OPC server. The SCADA package will then contain an OPC client piece, and use it to communicate with the technology. In this case, however, the OPC client would talk the OPC protocol to the OPC servers, and no such messages as in your example would appear between the OPC server and the OPC client, or in the SCADA software: It would be a task of the OPC server (separate from the SCADA package) to take care of the protocol encoding/decoding.
2) Provide communication with higher layers (e.g. MES or ERP systems). In this case, however, the SCADA package will be normally acting as an OPC server, not an OPC client.
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09 Jun 2016 08:44 - 09 Jun 2016 08:47 #4116
by toha0893
Replied by toha0893 on topic enhancing a non-OPC Application to a OPC UA client
The SCADA software receives Data from several sensors, analyses them and visualizes them. The string is the SCADA software’s Output at the moment. And has nothing with OPC. That’s why we want to enhance the application to become an OPC UA client. The string represents all the data we need for the visualization. Let me explain string it in more detail. Maybe there is really something I just understand wrong.
We would like to enhance our application so that the “string” can be send as real OPC UA data to an OPC UA Server. That’s what I imagined under Enhancing a non OPC Application to become an OPC UA Client. I.e.
We would like to enhance our application so that the “string” can be send as real OPC UA data to an OPC UA Server. That’s what I imagined under Enhancing a non OPC Application to become an OPC UA Client. I.e.
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