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Download Axiom Desktop for Offline Installation

Hi I'm new in Canary and I would like to install Axiom Desktop in a server without internet access. Where can I download de Axiom_Setup.exe for manual installation?

Count Calculation

What is the best operation to use to count every hour a tag is On (active, =1) for an entire week or 168 hrs. Then reset at the end of the week and start counting again?

Central Canary > Local PI Historian

Does canary have an OOTB connector to connect to local pi historians at sites.

MODBUS Example

Is there any way an example JSON Modbus file can be provided aside from the example posted in the "How to Configure a Node Device" KB article? It would be very helpful if I had a file that was…

Extracting an nth bit from a decimal

I'm trying to use the right shift (>>) operator to extract an nth bit from a decimal and its giving me an error: Value was either too large or too small for a UInt16".…

Axiom not showing trends or running very slow.

We have a Canary historian, and everything runs on one server (historian and Axiom). Without making too many changes or adding tags Axiom run very slow.…

How do I configure multiple Axiom trend charts to be displayed on a single monitor screen

Hi, We want to display up to (6) Axiom trend charts on a 27" monitor or whatever monitor size that can accommodate. Our Operators rely heavily on trends for process monitoring.…

How licences work...

Hi, Completely new to Canary but very excited to begin working with. I would like to know or to confirm how the licences works. I plan to use the Canary sytem on 3 different sites.…

Can I use a tag property as a limit line value in a trend chart?

I am reading some into Canary. Each tag has a Special Limit & General Limit value. I want to use these values as limit lines in a trend chart, bar chart, value box etc within asset cards.…

Ignition Tag Latency in Canary Historian

I'm currently having issues with canary reading the correct tag values. I previously had this working at one point in time before all my servers got reset.…

How do I use Continuation field in /getTagData response?

Hello, I am doing a rather large aggregate query against /getTagData which exceeds the maxSize of 1,000,000. The continuation property has a primitive array of three date times in it with no…

Example for using continuation in /getTagData response

I understand what the continuation property is for, but I’m unable to find any practical information or examples on how to use it. I sent an aggregate request to canary,…

Architecture Question

Multiple industrial sites with occasional network connectivity issues Multiple legacy control systems in place, all support OPC Business users want to see some process tags in a cloud BI system…

Store all TVQ

Hello I have a use case where each new value coming into the historian is a unique sample. Sometimes two sequential values might come in that are identical but they are still from separate samples,…

Delete or replace old tag values

I have data that was put inserted in error. I need to replace it with the correct data. Is there away to remove old tag data and rebuild a file with the correct data?

Create a template of display

I have several sites with the same variable names. Only the site name changes. I'd like to create a display template where I only have to change the site name.…

Performance testing not visible

Hi, I downloaded postman canary from here https://www.postman.com/downloads/canary/ I created a collection with four requests (POST) .. those are running fine individually.…

Consume csv files without the Engineering units row

Hi everyone, I have an operator's logs screen in Ignition processed as a dataset, which I later export as a csv file for Canary's csv collector to consume.…

How to Get Tag Data type via the API

Is there a way to get the data type of a tag via the Web API, or even a way to export the tag data type manually. I am trying to integrate with Canary with the Seeq analytics application?…

Scripting value box property changes with an asset template

I have some controls at the top where users can select a date and shift. I have scripting on the controls to update the aggregateinterval and aggregatestarttime on some value boxes.…

Text Data Files to Canary

Hi, I am working on a project that sends local machine data to a Highbyte service on another network. We want to send this data to Canary from Highbyte,…

How To Read & Write ValueBox Values To/From Script

I need to read and write values to/from ValueBox controls using results from within a script. I tried pasting the simple example from the help tutorials/examples but I receive an error.…

Specifying timestamp in MQTT payload

Hello, I have an MQTT SpB payload coming in from HighByte where one of the fields is a "Date & Time". Is there a way to have Canary take this value as the timestamp and not the value of the…

Cross Reference Table to turn operator id number into name

We have a tag with the numeric employee number of the operator on the machine. We have a simple table (e.g. Excel file) with columns for that number and the employee name.…

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Removing commas from string values shown as numbers

I have a tag that is setup as a string but in Events in Canary shown in Axiom using an event table control, it is shown with commas. Is there a way to setup my event property calculation or…