Kepware

Community, I'm trying to connect Kepware with the Thingworx cloud instance that is part of the Studio trial. I've already created the key and thing in Thingworx and I've changed the settings in the Kepware project that I'm using, but I'm unable to connect. I'm getting error messages saying that the web socket connection cannot be established. I can see the thing linked to Kepware in the monitor application in Thingworx but it is red instead of the usual green. Do you know which additional settings/parameters I need to change (URL of the server at which Kepware is pointing) for this to work? Currently I'm traveling for a meeting and I'm unable to share some screenshots of the errors/configurations that I'm using, but as soon as I have access to my server I can post it back here.   Thanks for your support. Best regards.

I am using the ThingWorx 30-day trial and trying to connect to Kepware.  The kepware instance is on my local machine.     My settings in kepware match the application ID and thing name exactly.   I have verified this many times.  I have also tried messing around with the three "Yes/No" responses to the point where I have tried every combination.   Here is the error I get in Kepware: Connection to ThingWorx failed. | Platform <hostname>:<port>/Thingworx/WS, error: could not establish a websocket connection   Does anyone know what might be causing this?   Thanks in advance!

I was able to get my KepServerEX connected to ThigWorx.   I am now trying to add a Kepware tag bound to a property in ThigWorx.  In Thingworx I am able to Broswe and find the Kepware tag that I want to bind.  I go through the process and see that the data is not updating in Thingworx.  I notice that the IsConnected property is not True, but I do not know what more needs to be done to have it connect.  The screenshot attached shows the tag I am talking about.

Hello everyone,   I'm quite new to ThingWorx and I wanted to create a new thing in ThingWorx Composer using the template 'IndustrialGateway', but I don't have that template. Does anyone know how to add this template? I meet the minimal requirements stated on the support site of PTC, I'm using ThingWorx Studio 8.2.0 and KEPServerEX 6.4 and Composer 7. Any suggestions, it would really help?

First formalities: I'm using Thingworx 7.1 with the KEPServerEX extension to connect to a KEPServer instance.  Sorry this is a long post, but giving as much info as possible!   I've created a mashup to browse the groups and tags available on a KEPServerEX instance using the given 'BrowseItems' and 'BrowseGroups' services available with the 'RemoteKEPServerEXThing' Thing Template.  I've bound 'All Data' from their returns to 2 grid widgets, 1 for BrowseGroups and 1 for BrowseItems.  I created a helper Thing to assist with navigation on the mashup and whatever other services I need to write.  I know that this functionality is working. I want to add functionality that allows you to multiselect tags from the BrowseItems grid and use the AddItems service to attach them to my KEPServer Thing in Thingworx. Figure: Left grid displays the results of 'BrowseGroups', Right grid displays the results of 'BrowseItems'.   For some reason, I'm not able to directly use Co

Hi, I am trying to connect to this Machine, but It's giving me unknown error. I started to do logging with debug and this was my output from the kepserv log.    As you can see it connects to the websocket, but right after it ends the connections.    In cloud VMs and my local machine it works fine. But in this client machine it doesn't. I don't know why.    Can anyone help me with this?

Hello,   I have an issue to view the connected servers on the Manuf App Control Advisor.   Versions :  Tomcat 8.5.23 Postgres 9.4.16 TWX 8.2.1 Manuf Apps 8.1.2 Extension KepServerEX-6.4.321 Everything is installed and run smoothly.   My Kepware server is well connected to TWX :  Kepware project well set to connect to TWX Log Kepware : Information ThingWorx Native Interface Connected to ThingWorx. | Platform: <myserver>/Thingworx/WS, Thing name: 'KepwareServerTraining-GW'. Thing[KepwareServerTraining] has the property "isConnected" at "true", so the connection is well established Thing[KepwareServerTraining-GW] : has the property "ActiveTagCount" at "41" which is the number of tags in my kepware, so the data are well gathered  But the problem I have is that in my App Control Advisor, the list of Servers is empy. Even when I add new server the created server is not displayed. If i try to create the server again in the Control Advisor App a mes

I am using Thingworx trail edition to show that a light is on in a plc on the Thingwrox mashup. I am using Kepware to link the plc and Thingworx. I am having a bit of trouble at the moment with the thing I created. I created two properties for turning the light on and off and when I go to change the values in the value column to simulate it turning on, I am only getting a tick box which does nothing. Would anyone know what properties I would have to created instead or how can I fix this issue.

Hi Has anyone been able to use a single Kepware Server, to interact with multiple Thingworx Servers? It would seem there is only a 1:1 relationship for this. (Using the KepwareEX extension)

The property editor does not allow me to click in it and edit the information.

Hi, I wanted to know in which table does the values from kepware gets stored? Where can we identify the table? Instead of storing the values from value stream,Can we store it in  any external table? In this case where does the values from kepware in the grid gets stored? I wanted to know in which table and how can we view that.   Please provide some help.Any guidance is appreciated. Thanks in advance, V.Shalini.

I am trying to connect kepware to thingworx to display an on off switch and I am having trouble on thingworx property editor editor. I am just wondering what do I put in for Host and thing name?  I have also included the error that i am receiving.                    Event 06/12/2017     16:14:02        Error           ThingWorx Native Interface  Connection to ThingWorx failed for an unknown reason. | Platform academic.cloud.thingworx.comr:443/Thingworx/WS, error: -1.

Dear community,   I Installed yesterday the ThingWorx Manufacturing Apps on my computer and I tried to connect it to my KepWare server (KEPServerEX 6) without success. I always got the same message: error: Could not initialize a secure socket connection.   I followed exactly the tutorial video, verified  the host, port, resource, application key, and Thing name. I even ping to hostname to verify it receives something. I already tried several times to uninstall and install everything again without sucess.   Could someone have a clue?   Thanks for your help.   Marc

Hi,   I'm trying to find documentation about how to connect Kepware to Thingworx and then link PLC tag data to thing properties in Thingworx. I typed in "Kepware" into Thingworx help and there were no results. That seems strange given Kepware has a Thingworx IoT gateway plugin and Kepware and Thingworx are both owned by PTC. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?   Regards, Greg

We currently have ThingWorx 7.1 and the KEPServerEX extension package version 1.6.0. I have a Kepserver Thing, let's call it 'KEPThing', that implements the 'RemoteKEPServerEXThing' Thing Template.  I've added Kepware tags to KEPThing as Properties.  These and the RemoteKEPServerEXThing TT properties, 'lastConnection' and 'isConnected', update properly in KEPThing. Next I've created another Thing, let's call it 'SimThing', and used Manage Bindings to bind my tag properties from KEPThing to properties on SimThing (I've tried both binding as a new Property and binding to an existing property with the same base type).  SimThing properly receives values from KEPThing's tag Properties, but the 'isConnected' and 'lastConnection' properties do not seem to propagate to SimThing.  I've tried having SimThing implement 'GenericThing' Thing Template and 'RemoteThing' Thing Template with the same results.   Any ideas why the 'isConnected' boolean or 'lastConnection' time v

Hi Team,   We have Thingworx Licence but we are not able to find in download option list (support.ptc.com - PTC Software Download) for - Thingworx Industrial Gateway (KEPserver). from where can we get License version of  Thingworx Industrial Gateway (KEPserver) ? whether do we need to get separate license for the same ?

I don't follow chapter 5's details.   It mentions line and asset. What is the sigma-tile supposed to be?   Are assets and lines a complete simulation? What choices make sense when setting these up?   I suspect that the workshop was instructor-led at some point and so the written instructions are short on detail.   Kepware is connected to my Sigma-Tile and properties are being reported there.   What is a minimal sequence of step by step instructions (for noobies) to see the tile represented properly inside of the Manufacturing Apps interface?   Thanks,   Jim   PS, why must each of my posts to this Sigma-Tile community be approved by a moderator before it appears? How do I get to feel like a real community member?

This course will provide an overview of ThingWorx Industrial Connectivity, powered by Kepware.   (view in My Videos)

Kepware lastest version have Thingworx Native Interface and IOT gateway plugin that can communicate with Thingworx platform. What's the difference? And how about the licensing when using Kepware with Thingworx?

Hello, I connected some tags in kepware and I want to read/writing them using an experience in Thingworx  Studio. When reading, it works just fine, the problem is when I try to write a property. If I set the property manually from Thingworx it works correctly and I can see the change in Kepware   To be clear, when I click the button 'set' I can see that the value in OPC (and in PLC) is changing   To write from Thingworx Studio I made an experience with a button that takes the text input from a text box and take the output as a parameter, then I bind it to a custom service   // Create a new blank infotable for passing into the 'update' service  var params = {      infoTableName: "MyUpdateTable" /* STRING */  };    // result: INFOTABLE  var myUpdate = Resources["InfoTableFunctions"].CreateInfoTable(params);    // add the name field to the datashape for the update table  // this will hold the name of the pro

Hi there I have a MODBUS Level meter that is connected to a serial to Ethernet adaptor that I want to connect to the Thingworx Industrial connector and then obviously bring that data into thingworx. Despite reading the forum I am unable to see any clear steps as to how you would go about this for MODBUS configuration where you can set which registers to read etc.  I have seen some information with older thingworx releases with simulation but not actual real word connection. Can any one guide me through this to assist in testing? Here are the devices I have.   1) Ultrasonic Level meter with RS485 with MODBUS RTU 2) A serial to ethernet server connected to the level meter via RS485    

Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this? The items that are attempting to add have been verified as connected with Ethernet cables. The Kepware license was installed correctly, and runtime is started.  There is blank section where the ProgID is in the KEPServerEX settings.  Should there be something here? I have seen other references to OPC.Server.V1 in the help.  Can anyone direct to a source for the proper settings here? Here is a clip of the logs with many more items attempted but not shown.  This log just repeats:   9/25/2017   17:44:00     Information  KEPServerEX\Runtime  Runtime performing exit processing. 9/25/2017   17:46:17     Information  KEPServerEX\Runtime  Kepware Communications Server 5.18 9/25/2017   17:46:23     Information  KEPServerEX\Runtime  Simulator device driver loaded successfully. 9/25/2017   17:46:23&nbs

Hello, I am using kepware for reading out the signal of my PLC. The following image shows 2 random digital inputs and 2 random analog inputs. As shown in the next image, they work fine: In Thingworx at the service tab i can find all the 4 inputs. But when i try to manage remote bindings the program only find the first input. (this input works fine, i have used it in a mashup) Can someone help me with this problem?! In the future i have to read out 64 digital inputs and 5 analog inputs!!

Hi,   By default,when binding data with remote thing from KEPServerEx, the binded property is read only. And I can see data coming in. But when I changed this property to read/write mode, It no longer be able to receive data any more. Even I rebind it, there is no new data received.   Anyone can help?   Thanks & Best Regards Tom

Hello PTC Community,   I have a TW Server already running on Amazon AWS and  also already connected to a KEPServer installation to send data from a CNC machine form one of our shops.   But even with everything running fine and connected I'm geeting these warning messages on the KEPserver   [WARN] 2017-08-30 19:34:25,538 twSubscribedPropsMgr_PushPropertyList:The property name KEPServerEX_ILQroOsalinas could not be found and was not pushed. [WARN] 2017-08-30 19:34:45,547 subscribedPropsMgr_Initialize: subscribed property values will not persist to disk while offline because the offline message directory was not set or the offline message store was disabled     The Thing, App Key and Monitor show that the connection is OK as shown in the following images         And I'm wondering what these messages means and if the WARNING could have an impact on the ability from Kepoware or TW to update the properties from the machine. I've already p