Questions & Answers Category

Request to share their experience working with Canary vs. GE Proficy or other historians.

Dear All, Could you please share your experience in using Canary to replace GE Proficy or in place of it? What made you to choose Canary and how is the experience so far?

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Playback Enable Function

I'm adding a button called "Playback", and it's function needs to take Start and End Date/Time Pickers, calculate span, update screen properties, and set playback properties automatically.…

Convert users from Wonderware Historian

Hi Guys, Looking to convert some long time Wonderware Historian users to Canary, and looking for the best way to import data from their original historian into the Canary environment. Thanks!

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Linux version of Canary Labs Data Collector

Does Canary Labs have an install of the data collector for Linux?

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Change time axis on every trend graph in Axiom application?

Hi! Does anyone know if there is a native way to change the timestamp axis on every graph in an Axiom application at once? I have multiple graphs in an app and it would be nice to zoom in to a…

Display the Timestamp for the Last Time a Tag Changed Value/State

I'm trying to make an axiom application showing various current "live" data of many tags sampled every second. Some tags are related to automated discrete volume sampling from the instrument and…

Experience with Canary in manufacturing of medical equipment?

Recently, we have an opportunity for a prospect in manufacturing of medical equipment. They are looking for reference in the same industry. Also comparing the experience of using Canarylabs vs PI.…

How to delete a tag from history

I have a few instances where I initially added tags and then changing the naming structure of them. I'd like to delete the original naming from history without deleting the entire dataset.…

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Axiom custom controls

Is it possible to add custom controls (beyond simple symbols or images) in Axiom? I'm looking to integrate interactive UI elements—such as dropdown menus, radio buttons,…

View assets in list instead of tiles

We've got a view with some long asset names. With each asset being a tile, the beginning and end of the asset name are cut off. And some of the names are similar.…

Transfer historical data from Wonderware Historian to Canary Historian

Is it possible to transfer historical data from Wonderware Historian & continue to store the same tags in the canary historian ?

OPC Collector receives Bad when OPC Server shows Good

I have an issue where the OPC Collector is showing No Data even though the OPC server shows Good data. The value in the Historian maintains, but the View will show Empty.…

Axiom Tab Auto Navigate

Good Day All, I have an Axiom application with multiple tabs. Is there any way for a script to run that cycles through displaying each tab at a constant rate? Display tab1, wait 20 seconds,…

Restrict Data Type in Data Entry Control

Is there a way to restrict values entered into a Data entry Control? For instance, I only want people to put a 0 or a 1.

Events Table Optimization

We are trying to optimize performance of the Events and Event Properties table, is it advisable to add Indexing and table partitions to achieve this?

Unable to read from transport connection

Hi, Has anyone come across this Error "Error during Live Update: Unable to read data from the transport connection;An exsiting connection was forcibly closed by the remote host" What may be the cause…

Opening a new application/chart and passing date/time range

Hi! We have a customer that is looking to open a screen with the same time range as the screen that is requesting the opening. For example: User finds a peak value over a period of a specific day on…

Count Number of Changes in String Tag value

We are doing a thruput improvement project and trying to find a way to calculate how many serialized units move thru our workcells. The most robust signal we have to track this with currently is a…

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Changing Tag (from Ignition project) name before entering Canary Historian

We've got existing systems that did not use historian database capabilities and I am introducing the concept to the business units. I understand the concept of data historians,…

WriteAPI - Method not implemented"

Tried to implement /getSessionToken (Storage Methods) by passing request as Request : { "userToken": "90e1f3a6-7c37-4366-99c4-bc539b4978e123", "historians": [ "MACHINENAME" ], "clientId": "Test",…

Failed to create HttpService Warning

What does the following warning message mean? And should it be concerning? I don't see any operational impact on the server. Failed to create HttpServiceSystem.…

Documentation/Examples for OPC Data Transformation

We have an OPC DA Collector and an OPC UA Collector. Both are pointed to control systems that use digital states (i.e., 0 = off, 1 = on). In Canary, we'd like to store the string representation…

Issues with Aggregation & Resolution

We're having some issues with null-handling and data aggregation. We automatically aggregate the data to control the number of samples. For example, we try to ensure that we are asking for around…

Conditional Counts

How can I create a conditional count i.e. count number of times the tag value was more than 50 for a week.

Get All Child Events in Axiom

Hello Everyone I need to retrieve all the events of an asset in Axiom, specifically for the child assets. I mean, I have Parent01, Parent02, etc., and for each ParentXX I have 10 child assets,…