Kepware

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

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

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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?