alternative OPC Client?

[sletrab]

Hello,

I’m searching for an alternative OPC-Client.

Is there someone out there who has developed a LabVIEW Interface for an OPC-Client (OPC-DA) from Softing, OPC Labs or another company? I did not found an OPC Client witch supports LabVIEW.

Maybe you would sell your code or spend your code or give Information or help for the implementation?

If you do not want to make your answer public you could send me a private message. Maybe I could return the favor with some code you would be interested in?

 I know that LabVIEW supports OPC with 2 different Clients (http://www.ni.com/white-paper/7451/en/).

1. OPC via DataSocket
2. OPC via LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control (DSC) Toolkit

But the free OPC via Datasocket has limitations, and it does not work with the OPC-Server from IFM where other OPC-Clients work well (I think, the IFM OPC-Server Version 2 is not that well implemented).

And the DSC Toolkit is too expensive because we need only the OPC-Client component and we are using it at some customers (a Runtime Licence is 800 €).

Please help

Sletrab

[tst]

I haven't worked too much with OPC, and I haven't tried this myself, but you could try looking for .NET or C implementations of an OPC client and call that.

[sletrab]

Yes, that is the idea, but I have no knowledge from other languages. So I ask if someone already has developed an LabVIEW Interface for such an OPC-Client.