@rootxy.de The energy meter, is it connected to a gateway with an API?

FYI: we are doing a local first meetup in our offices if you are interested in looking behind the curtain

Dear Community, On this Wednesday (9th September) at 2 PM CET / 08 AM EST, we are hosting a webinar on UMH Historian. Register via this link: https://www.umh.app/events/umh-historian-store-your-uns-data-and-query-it-from-grafana

I will not be able to join but am very interested! Will this be recorded (as always)?

Great podcast, loved the integration example. There were some good questions asked that you guys can expand on, like AI integration and where to have your historian (on-premise, enterprise/cloud). Another question I got, what are your thoughts on Redpanda SQL? Personally I don’t know much but figured it’s around the same topic.

Management Console can install on-premise?

No. More like this:

Data is not leaving your environment

UMH core stays fully on Prem!

About redpanda SQL: we were thinking about this a couple of times already, but usually these "materialized view" tools for kafka are quite heavywheight (ksql, etc.). We thought of extending benthos actually to support those type of usecases instead.

🎉 Beckhoff ADS is now officially supported in UMH (experimental) The community ads plugin has graduated: starting with benthos-umh v0.16.0, Beckhoff ADS is part of benthos-umh and maintained by us, just like S7, Modbus and OPC UA. It is available in umh-core v0.44.41 and later. https://www.umh.app/de/insights/changelog What you get * Read variables from TwinCAT 2 and TwinCAT 3 PLCs over ADS * Change notifications or interval polling * Manual route setup on the PLC, or automatic route creation if you provide credentials * Management Console templates for TwinCAT 2 and TwinCAT 3 Good to know * Input only for now. Writing back to the PLC is not supported yet. * One ADS connection per PLC from umh-core (no built-in AMS router) * The old community plugin is now deprecated. The new plugin keeps the ads key. If you're coming from the community version, check the changelog for the config updates. * The bridge's connection status doesn't reflect the PLC connection yet. When you create a bridge from a Beckhoff ADS template, the bridge asks for an IP address and port. You can enter any placeholder value there. The real PLC address goes into the read flow's input.yaml. The bridge works normally, but it keeps showing the placeholder address instead of the real one.

I too am a bit confused as to why the management console does not have an on-premise option. I love the recent re-architecture. It seems to be a nice middle ground between microservices and monolithic applications. But the inability to run the management console on-prem seems like introducing an external dependency? I understand that data stays on-prem and operation is not dependent, but UI-based configuration is dependent on the external management-ui on UMH servers, correct? I've watched most of the recent videos/podcasts and I don't quite understand the reason why this component moved purely external. Unless perhaps this is a first phase to simplify development until an on-prem version solidifies.

If you want to have an on-premise solution, you can contact our sales. Otherwise, the Community edition is free to use

Good to know! I'll admit it feels backwards from most modern IT software. Self-hosting is often free but more complicated whereas the supported version includes cloud portal, better scalability, etc. However, I see how it could fit UMH's model, and more OT-centric customers.

hi all! if i remember correctly someone made a UMH tag explorer/fancy debug page in Grafana? was it @Brian Pribe? I would like some more context on this! 🙂

@Brian Pribe i've found it was you! Would you be open to share this/have a chat about this concept?

I’ll share the files 😉

using the Interactive Tree Panel plugin. This dashboard also auto creates new panels when you select a tag.

Would you be open to share this? I didnt know interactive tree was available!

will the recording of yesterday be on youtube again? 🙂

Yes! We will share it, once it is online!

Hi everyone, i'm doing a new UMH setup i will connect 10 exactly same opcua servers but i'm not sure if i want to connect directly or add a mqtt broker in between who has any thoughts on this?

Why do you need the mqtt broker? Will there be external connections? How much do you want to decouple the plant from IT?

Having the mqtt broker is great for another interface for IIOT, real-time messaging (command-control, SCADA). If you have loads of data and quality is a big requirement, mqtt doesn’t give you anything, sure SpB but that’s on top.

The recording is online now! 🎉 Just drop your name and email on this page: https://www.umh.app/de/events/industrial-ai-on-your-shop-floor-from-first-connection-to-first-dashboard You’ll then get an email with a link to the video on YouTube.

flexibility later on, if i need to integrate with something else i have one single source of truth (my broker) where i can easily add tags and get them upstream

would be an advantages

a disadvantage is that the broker is an extra software piece that can break

Mqtt brokers with UMH-core should be used for real-time messaging, control, and security. If your application has that sorted out, then the mqtt broker is redundant. You could upgrade from OPCUA servers to a mqtt broker, but you have to ask yourself: What are you trying to achieve?