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OPC UA

OPC UA Client Poll

6min

Note: This driver will be deprecated in a future release. We recommend using OPC UA Client Advanced.

Review the following information for setting up and configuring the OPC UA Client Poll driver.

Manufacturing Connect Edge Compatible Series

Compatibility parameter

Compatible items

Driver type

Ethernet

Functionality

  • Polls the OPC UA server at regular user-defined intervals, returning the latest status from all specified nodes.
  • As soon as a record is generated, the status is passed to the pipeline to avoid delays in processing.

Replaced with Gen 2 driver

Supported Servers

OPC UA Client

  • It provides better performance compared to other OPC UA Clients.
  • OPC UA Client with new design supports both poll and subscription mode.

Set up the PLC Device in Manufacturing Connect Edge DeviceHub



Parameter

Value

Type

OPC UA

Driver

OPC UA Client Poll

Network Address

The device IP address

Network Port

4840

Certificate

Auto-generated

Private Key

Auto-generated

Timeout Seconds

10

Configure the List of Registers

Browse for tags to add to this FreeTag device. See Browse Tags to learn more.

Alternatively, when you Add Tags, for Register Name map the OPC server tags to the client using this format, where the semicolon is significant: ns=1;s=tagname.

Example: Example: ns=2;s=Demo.Static.Scalar.Boolean

The following data types are supported:

  • int32
  • bool
  • sbyte
  • byte
  • int16
  • uint16
  • int32
  • uint32
  • int64
  • uint64
  • float32
  • float64
  • string
  • dump
  • desc

Refer to the following tag parameters.