IoT & Connectivity

Key Functional Highlights Changes to the Free Trial for Manufacturing Merged Manufacturing apps and DevKit downloads into one Free Trial  120 day free trial Access to ThingWorx Foundation  Includes manufacturing accelerator Controls Advisor, Asset Advisor (supported apps) Production KPI's (demo app within SCO accelerator) Available via ThingWorx Developer Portal Asset Advisor Merged Manufacturing and Service Apps into a single deliverable Merged ThingWorx Utilities Capabilities into Asset Advisor Equipment Export/Import via Excel Added console links for workflow, composer and SCM Utilities customers can easily migrate to Asset Advisor Support of Quality of Data for assets and lines Building Blocks Additional connectors can be configured in Controls Advisor Edge Microserver (EMS) and Azure IoT can be configured as a data source Operator Advisor Beta     Compatibility - ThingWorx Manufacturing and Service Apps ThingWorx 8.3.x KEPServer

Key Functional Highlights See What’s New in ThingWorx Apps and ThingWorx Operator Advisor Guide     Compatibility - ThingWorx Manufacturing and Service Apps ThingWorx 8.4.x KEPServerEX 6.2 and later Earlier Version of KEPServerEX and 3rd party OPC will be supported via Aggregator All other TWX supported data sources but specifically: NI, EMS and Azure IOT Hub Upgrade Support 8.0.1 and later     Compatibility – ThingWorx Manufacturing Operator Advisor ThingWorx 8.3.4 and later ThingWorx 8.4.x and later MPMLink 11.0 M030+ with WRS 1.3     Documentation   What’s New in ThingWorx Apps ThingWorx Apps Setup and Configuration Guide ThingWorx Apps Customization Guide ThingWorx Operator Advisor Guide     Additional information The National Instruments Connector can be found on PTC Marketplace     Download   ThingWorx Manufacturing and Service Apps & Operat

  Some call him JB. Some call him Joe. Others call him @bironology. I call him an awesome guy—he’s our CTO of IoT here at PTC—Joe Biron!   Joe’s an architect at heart, a developer, an avid gamer and a technologist (check him out on Twitter @bironology).   Watch as he guest stars in the Microsoft Channel 9 “IoT Deep Dive Live” show! Listen to him explain how you can build end-to-end industrial solutions with ThingWorx and Azure. ­­ And, guess who’s running the demo behind the scenes: our Global ThingWorx COE Lead, Neal Hagermoser, who you may recognize from a previous Ask Kaya post where I interviewed him on why we chose to partner with Azure.   Enjoy the show and stay connected! Kaya

Hi everyone, I have a repeater widget and i want to know if it's possible to set properties from the mashup that is inside the repeater to different things The purpose of this mashup is that, the user will set a value to the text box and this value that was set by the user will be sent to the property inside the thing. The problem that i am having is that when i set a value to the text box, that value is being put on both things instead of just one of then. Image of the Mashup below. Thanks!  

Hi, I am using the PDF extension to send out pdf reports. For D3PieChart widget not able to generate pdf report by using Create PDF service.  Output of Create PDF service: Getting Blank screen only for D3PieChart widget.   Please provide some idea?   Please find the attached  D3PieChart  mashup screen shot.   Thanks & Regards Nagaraj Enamate

I want to use categories to organize my properties on a Thing. Is there a way to get the list of categories implemented by the Thing? Preferably without having to get ALL of the Property Definitions and then running a Distinct snippet on the Category field.I also want to avoid using Thing Shapes as a way of organizing the properties. We have instances of multiple Things needing to implement the same Shape but having wildly different properties and thus, doubling the size of the Shape actually needed for each Thing.

What is the difference between ARM and ARM-HWFPU? Following are two installers for Edge microserver installation with OpenSSL. MED-61060-CD-054_SP5_Microserver-Linux-arm-hwfpu-openssl-5-4-5-512.zip MED-61060-CD-054_SP5_Microserver-Linux-arm-openssl-5-4-5-512.zip   I want to install EMS on Raspberry Pi Zero W, which has ARM CPU. Which installable I should use? Please suggest.

Hi, Is it possible to define the mashup resolution to a desired resolution (eg:1366*768) using css?   @media all and (max-width: 1366x) and (min-height: 768px) { body { background: #ccc; } .someclass { padding: 10px; } } Can I implement the script directly in my custom css space? Please provide some idea.   Thanks, Shalini V.

From Kepware I need to connect a remote OPC UA Server and send data to the Manufacturing Apps. I have: Kepware installed on Server A OPC UA Server (non Kepware) on Server B From server A I can ping the Server B From Kepware I'm trying to connect the OPC UA Server using OPC UA Client driver, but I receive errors and the connection fails. I ‘d like to know if what I’m trying to do is feasible or not. Maybe my approach is wrong. Any help would be appreciated a lot Many thanks Martina     Errors are: --> Creating the Channel, I receive the following warning  There is no exact match for the configured endpoint URL in the UA Server. Attempting to connect using the configured URL. Channel endpoint URL = opc.tcp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4840, server endpoint description URL = opc.tcp://yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy:4840/. Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of Server B and yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is a not-known IP, <> from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx And then the following error Channel failed to connect. |

Hi, I have the folloing situation: - I've installed some sensors, sending temperature, pressure and humidity. - I made a mashup, showing the temperature in time series charts. - Everything worked fine.   Now we added airQuality to the sensors to send. So I added this field to the thingTemplate, my sensorThings inherit from - updated my service to write this as well. Everything looked working fine.   Now the issue: All my time series chars now show the airQuality value, insatead of temperature. Even when creating a new mashup, setting it up and make one field to temperature... shows airQuality instead. And it is not a refresh problem from my browser. I can set the DataLabel1 to something - and it will appear... but still show wrong data.   Can someone help me please!!  

I try to get data from Microsoft SQL database 2014 to Thingworx connectivity but it has error message " Failed to automatically generate tags for device 'Device1'."   I would like to know what is wrong in this case please suggestion  me thank you.    

I have eight mashups for which i have created landing page. I go and click on each link in landing page to visualize those mashup. I just want to auto generate those mashups. How can i do that. Is there any way.

AnaµHello,   I am trying to deploy an analysis model and test it but i can't seem to get things working i keeep getting this error on the application console : [message: Thing [TW.AnalysisServices.AnalysisResourceProvider] is not running] I tried to see if the provider is connected and it seems it is not since no clients are available (see attached image). if anyone can provide help i would be grateful.   Thanks

Hi all,   I am trying to do a small IOT study with Azure. But I am getting the following err. Could you please share your thought on how to overcome this. Glad if you can share your sample azure-iot.conf. Please help.   Error Message: The IoT Hub host SarmaIOTStudy.azure-devices.net is not resolvable. Verify that thecxserver.protocol.hubName configuration matches an IoT hub name in the Azure Console   Thanks Sarma

I am not getting any extension file for operator advisor. please guide me for the same.

Hi, Is it possible to download the grid columns header to a excel by clicking on a button?   Thanks, Shalini V.

Hi,       I want my mashup report to be exported in excel format. Is there any way to so? please provide me the solution for this.   Thanks in advance !! Sheetal sable    

I'm trying to change the status field in one row or multiple rows by clicking the button above. For example, if I selected row 3, then I click the "Approve" button, the status field should become "Approve". The field Status in my data shape is  string type, and I plan to write a service to overwrite the status of a row every time I click the button.  I'm trying to do so, but I'm confused about what should I pass in as a parameter for my service, what should I return. Is there any built-in services that can overwrite a field of a data shape inside a data table. Thanks!

I am trying to use the Advanced grid to display data, and one of the grid columns i have applied a state definition to. This works fine with the regular grid, but it is giving me issues with the advanced grid. The Default state definition does not seem to be taking.Advanced GridRegular GridHere is the Grid Column where the State definition is set.Could anyone please help me out? Thank you!

ThingWorx 7.4 introduces a new licensing system. A license file (license.bin) needs to be placed in the ThingworxPlatform folder. A new license file is also required if you upgrade from 7.4  to a major or minor release (not service pack-level releases). For example:• If you are using version 7.3, a license is not required.• If you upgrade from version 7.4.1 to version 7.4.2, a license upgrade is not required.• If you upgrade from version 7.4.3 to version 7.5.2, a license upgrade is required.Refer to the Installing ThingWorx 7.4 guide or Upgrading ThingWorx 7.4 guide for detailed process steps.Paid customers would have unlimited use of entities for 7.4.0. As currently a license file is locked to  version rather than SCN/host and is part of download package on  PTC Support, customers can use the same downloadable for multiple instances.Developer Trial Edition provides a constrained license file (5 users, 100 things, 120 days), and the license file is part of on premise dow

Hi ,   I'm trying to setup a Thingworx composer with Mfg Extensions along with demo data. Can anyone help me out with getting the sample data for Mfg app's.   Thanks In Advance Umar

Hello, I'm currently trying to make a POSTXML request to an external server webhook which accepts XML payloads and parses them according to our requirements. I'm trying to use the ContentLoaderFunctions PostXML function but when I execute the service I get  [message: Execution error in service script [UptimeAlert] :: Premature end of file.] My code is the following with our actual URL redacted for security reasons // result: STRING var IPAddress = Things["UsefulServerInfo"].ServerName; var newUrlName = me.name.replace(" ", "%20"); var server = '<Server>'+IPAddress+'</Server>'; var site = '<Site>'+me.relatedSite+'</Site>'; var line = '<Line>'+me.relatedLines+'</Line>'; var asset = '<Asset>'+me.displayName+'</Asset>'; var technology = '<Technology>None</Technology>'; var alertname = '<AlertName>'+AlertName+'</AlertName>'; var alertdescription = '<AlertDescription>'+AlertDescription+'</AlertDescription&g

Hi everyone, i chose Thingworx platfom for my study project. In general, there is should be robot which sends and also recieves data from Thingworx mashup via Nodemcu ESP8266. I followed this tutorial, but it didnt work for me https://developer.thingworx.com/en/resources/guides/connect-adafruit-feather I tried to launch it on next 2 platforms with different UI for some reason https://ptcu-thingworx83-fundamentals.portal.ptc.io/Thingworx/Composer and  https://academic.cloud.thingworx.com/Thingworx/Composer/ Got only some messages from port monitor like state: 0 -> 2 (b0) I actually confused about this, so is it possible to connect my ESP to one of these platforms and what the difference here? Can anyone help with some advice or even working example? Actually some simple operation of sending any number from ESP to Thing property would be enough for me.  Thanks a lot in advance.

How can i create data table(s) with its data shape through service scripting?

Continuing our series of Troubleshooting ThingWorx Analytics installations, in this IoT Tech Tip we will cover two items have been appearing for many users.   Error 1069 Encountered with Native Windows Installation of ThingWorx Analytics 8.2   In some instances, when a user successfully installs ThingWorx Analytics (TWAS) to a Windows Server operating system, they will encounter an error where TWAS will report an Error 1069: The Service did not start due to logon failure.   This can occur with any individual Service that is created by the installation, the following fix should work in addressing the issue.   Primary Reason This Happens:   This error can be encountered when the user provides incorrect credentials for associating the Services to an account during installation. In TWAS 8.2, there is a utility that will enable to the user to change the associated user on the Services. It is important the user provides the password for the User Account on Windows, a