This Guide explains in short how to start with OPC UA in ConnectedCooking. Please keep in mind that this guide only refer to our Cloud OPC UA solution.
- First, we need to create an API Client in our ConnectedCooking Account.
- Therefore, we navigate in our ConnectedCooking Account into the Administration Tab.
- Next click on Integrations. (The API Tab is only for Account Admins visible).
- Then we click on “+ Add new”.
- In the next picture we give a “ALIAS”, assign a GROUP and choose an API type. For the API queries regarding OPC UA and the data in our with ConnectedCooking connected devices we need the “OPCUA via Cloud interface” API-type. After filling all columns, we click on “Add API”.
- In the next screen we receive our API client credentials. Please safe them on a secure place and click on close.
- After we create our API client, we need a tool to use it.
Therefore you can use for example UaExpert or any other tool you know. In this Guide we will use UaExpert. - Please start UaExpert. Then add a new Server via the “Server” button on the upper bar and click after that on “Add…”. Alternatively, you can also just create a new server by clicking on the “+” symbol.
- To add the server, we must add the server endpoint “opc.tcp://app.connectedcooking.com:4840/OPCUA/ConnectedCooking” via double clicking on the “Custom Discovery” plus symbol.
- After that we can connect to the server via one of the available authentication methods. For example Basic256Sha256 – Sign & Encrypt (uatcp-uasc-uabinary) by double clicking on it.
- Next, click on “Connect” via the context menu in the server overview below “Projects”.
- With the help of our API Client credentials from ConnectedCooking we can now enter these in the credentials screen.
- Now we can see in the Address Space our Units from the ConnectedCooking Account and show the available OPC UA Nodes.
- Double clicking on any node shows the corresponding attributes in the upper right corner.
This example can basically be applied to all nodes.
To see a full list of the available OPC UA Nodes check the "OPC UA Spezifikation" which is available in the integrations tab.
Congratulation you are now able to use Cloud OPC UA with ConnectedCooking!
If you need additional information, please check our API Documentation for ConnectedCooking.
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