PROCON-Connect 1.5.0

Features

  • 88079: Introduction of alerts and notifications. Emails can be sent via SMTP or the Twilio SendGrid integration, and SMS messages can be sent via the Twilio integration. This feature will be further expanded in upcoming releases. For details, see: Alerts & Notifications.

  • 109297: The IIoT Connector has been enhanced to include MQTT JSON. The previous solution has been renamed to MQTT (deprecated) and will be removed from the product in 2027. Users who use MQTT must migrate to the new solution beforehand. Differences from the previous solution:

    • Payload is ready to use. By default, the following tag properties are sent: Name, Timestamp, Value, Quality Information.

    • The payload can be configured via the UI for publish and subscribe.

    • JSON preview of the payload.

    • Expansion of protocol messages to include birth and death messages.

  • 121065: User Management now supports LDAP and LDAPS. For details, see LDAP.

  • 118807: Introduction of units. These can be managed via their own UI and assigned to a tag using the Tag Edit dialog. For details, see Units.

  • 127159: Introduction of an OPC UA server. In the first phase of development, the solution supports PROCON-to-PROCON communication through a combination of an OPC UA server and OPC UA clients. This functionality will be further expanded in upcoming releases. For details, see OPC UA Server.

  • 129498: You can now access the system variables via the System tags tab in the Tags view in PROCON-Connect.

  • 129482: Tags can now write to more than one driver connection, which means, for example, that Codesys tags can be written to Modbus. For details, see Write connections.

Fixes & Improvements

  • 107401: The initial menu overview now displays icons and short descriptions for the functions.

  • 108524: The breadcrumbs now allow navigation down to the object level and from objects to overview pages.

  • 126201: The connection behavior of 60870 servers can now be configured via the UI.

  • 128462: Quality information for 60,870 information objects can now be configured bit by bit via the UI.

  • 128628: The 60870 server now displays details about connected clients in the server overview.

  • 129116: It is now possible to edit a single tag value via the UI. To do this, go to the Options menu for the tag in the tag overview.

  • 124316: The OPC UA driver import now supports additional data types.

  • 107631: The OPC UA driver import has been optimized and now runs faster.

  • 121960: Numerous minor adjustments, fixes, and improvements.

Known issues

  • If a tag for a driver is imported via the telemetry UI, it does not automatically appear in the tag list. The page must be refreshed, e.g. by pressing F5. Only occurs on u-OS, installations/deployments under Windows and Linux are not affected.

  • Firmware bug in Siemens 1500 CPUs with firmware 4.0: Frequent connection and disconnection with the PLC visible in the event log. Fix via firmware update from v4.0.4 brings improvement, but does not completely resolve the issue. Further information can be found in the Siemens Release Notes. TIA drivers are therefore not currently approved for firmware v4.x.

Info

Warning

The port used to access PROCON-Connect has changed as of version 1.3.0. The new port is now 18443.
The system now communicates securely, i.e. via HTTPS instead of HTTP.

The system can therefore be accessed at https://localhost:18443.

Access via http://localhost:16701 is no longer possible.