@stfi/node-red-contrib-opcua-item-selector 1.0.1

A Node-RED node for selecting items from an opcua-server via live-browsing.

npm install @stfi/node-red-contrib-opcua-item-selector

OPC UA Item Selector (for node-red-contrib-opcua)

This repository contains the code base for OPC UA Item Selector, a third-party node for node-red-contrib-opcua.

Configuration Options

The OpcUa-ItemSelector node has the following configuration options:

General

• Name: The name of the node within the context of the Node-RED editor.
• Endpoint: The OPC UA server that should be browsed.
• Item: The selected item that is also used for browsing.
• Browse-Button: Button for browsing the OPC UA server.
• Icon Fork: Copy item-id to clipboard for relative bindings. These bindings are made with a flow-variable that you can use after the opcua-client for instance in the switch-node with the statement flow.copiedID for msg.topic.
• Icon Clipboard: Copy item-id to clipboard for absolute bindings. You can use it for instance in the switch-node after the opcua-client for msg.topic.
• Node-Output: msg.topic with namespace-index (ns), string-identifier (s) and dataype like ns=1;s=MyVariable2;datatype=Double
• Node-Input: Nothing. It overwrites the msg.topic.

Video of the functionality within OPC UA Subscription

Video of the functionality within OPC UA Write