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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

Dear Sir,   Can I use Kepware to get the data from Toshiba controller TC200. If yes, how can I do it?   Thanks

Hello,   I am tripping with "DemoFactoryPackage". [Progress and symptoms]"DemoFactoryPackage""Step 2.1: Load the Simulator into KEPWARE" was carried out.After inserting "DemoFactorySimulator.opf"The content of the project has been rewritten, and it can not connect with Thingworx.[Kepserver's Message]The message of Kepserver right after rewriting the contents of the project is as follows.> The runtime project has been replaced. | New project = 'C: \ Users \ Administrator \ Downloads \ DemoSimulatorPackage \ DemoFactoryPackage \ DemoFactorySimulator.opf'.> Failed to connect to server: '127.0.0.1: 57212'. Please verify this connection information is correct and that host can be reached.> Failed to connect to ThingWorx Native Interface ThingWorx. | Platform 127.0.0.1:57212/Thingworx/WS, Error: Failed to initialize secure socket connection.[Correspondence]1)> "Please verify this connection information is correct and that host can be reached."   I confirmed that Pi

Managing the complex array of assets connected to Industrial Internet of Things applications can be daunting. Balancing bandwidth constraints while maximizing throughput and performance can be even more of a task.     The native industrial connectivity features released in ThingWorx 8 now allow you to seamlessly connect, monitor and manage automation devices so you can quickly integrate industrial operations data into your IoT solutions.   Watch this video and hear our software engineers Dave Larson and Paul Cameron explain how to leverage the newly released connectivity features.     Ready to connect, monitor, and manage automation devices on your own? We put together new Industrial Connectivity Guide which provide step by step instructions on how to interface industrial assets in ThingWorx 8.

Hi Team,   I do have a question about the Chapter 6, Extending your TW Manu APPS. I have followed the instruction and it doesn't work as expected.   When I triggered an Alert in Sigma Tile PI, it cannot be automatically displayed in LED, leaving errors in KEPServerEX. Date           Time            Level           Source                                     Event 7/25/2017      12:02:13 PM     Warning         IoT Gateway                        &nb

hi, I am new to kepserverex and working on connecting kepserverex with thingworx but  in kepserverex under project properties in thingworx along with the api key I can insert only 1 Thing name what if I require different devices tags data in different things properties?     Thank you for any help

Source: Modbus TCP/IP Ethernet Event: Channel1.Device1 | Socket error occurred connecting. | Error = 10061, Details = 'No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.'.   Has anyone ran into this issue when connecting the Raspberry Pi to KEPServerEX?   As far as I understand, all I have to do to connect is: 1) format the memory card 2) write SigmaTile Pixel disk image 3) put the SD card in Pi 4) get Pi on the same network as everything else 5) update Pi from GitHub just to make sure I have the latest code 6) load the SigmaTile_SenseHat.opf in KEPServerEX 7) Change Channel1 "ID" to show the Pi's IP Address.   Am I missing something?

I am planning to use AB suite for the old AB PLC (PLC 5/40) which is using DF1 protocol. I would like to know whether PLC software and Kepware software can co-exist in PC as both of them will be getting data from PLC. I hope existing station or any other software will have no impact by Installing kepware on same PC and getting data from same PLC. Please clarify.

I am new to Thingworx but not to Kepware. I have a kepware thing that is displaying values for a number of connected devices. I have a device thing and I am trying to connect my device properties to my kepware properties. After some reading decided that a subscription is the way to do this.  I hope that is right.   I have two kepware tags that change infrequently and one that changes frequently. The subscription is on data change.  and only the property attached the tag changing frequently is updating. I am guessing because the value is not changing the property is not updating. I see that there is another subscription event ... called any data change, or thing starts.  So perhaps I need to use one of these events to populate the values.   If I pick anydata change .. i'm not sure how to reference a specifc property of the kepware thing in my device thing to update the device property from the kepware property   Any thoughts anyone?

I have installed a demo version of KEPServerEX 6 and have been trying to integarte it with Thingworx 7.1.2.  Till now, I have imported KEPServerEX 6 extension in Thingworx and created a thing "KEPServerEX" using the imported template "RemoteKEPServerEXThing". When trying to connect, I am getting Thingworx Connection failed error. I have attached the screenshot of same. I am unable to find any relevant documentation about this procedure. Can anyone guide if I am missing any concept.

Hi there!   I have connected thingworx to kepware but I cannot see any values in thingworx. I have followed the guide "industrial Connections" in the Thingworx Help Center; I created a thing with the industrial gateway template, I connected kepware to the thing and, in new composer, I searched for the tags and bound them to a new entity. Everything good so far, but when I open the new industrial thing and click on Refresh to see the values, I cannot see any value. In the remote thing properties I can see that I has never been connected despite the Industrial Connection thing is connected.   Any clue about what is going on?   KEPServerEx is the industrial connection and TestKEP is the industrial thing.   Many thanks

This 8 minute video provides an overview of the Industrial Connectivity Mapping released in ThingWorx 8.0.

Sigma Tile Workshop Guide

Kepware 6.0 configuration file for the Sigma Tile

Sigma Tile Quickstart guide. This guide is intended for people who may have received a pre-assembled Sigma Tile with software loaded on SD card.

Hi all,   I just started using thinkworx and I'm trying to pull all the tags from Kepware to a thing in Thingworx (add it to a thing's properties). How I can do it using Javascript? I'm still learning what are the capabilities of the Thingworx Composer and its API. BTW I have the RemoteKEPServerEXThing installed.

I use Thingworx to read tags in kepware. Please see the picture of log in Kepware, tip:2017-03-31 15:40:10,906 subscribedPropertiesUpdateTask - Error getting subscribed properties Why this happned, how can it fiexed?

Hi,   I had linked ThingWorx to KepServerEx and would like to display the value on screen.   I am using the GetProperties service and check "Automatically update value when able" checkbox but I got error   if I uncheck the ""Automatically update value when able" checkbox, I got value showing on screen but not changing.   any reason why?   thank you