ARDI Documentation

Selector Queries - created

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:12:47 +0000

Selector Queries This type of Grafana query allows you to use an ARDI selector to get points from the ARDI server. See the selector documentation for more information about how selectors work. Examples appear below. Example Selectors My Machine.Temperature The Temperature property of My Machine

Query Queries

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:09:22 +0000

Query Queries This type of Grafana query allows you to use a full AQL-syntax query to get points from the ARDI server. History Remember to add 'GETHISTORY' if you want to request historical data - otherwise, it will only request live information.

Point Queries

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:01:40 +0000

Point Queries Point queries are simplest and most common type of query used. They allow you to create a time series around just one asset (the 'point'). When you make a Point query, you choose the asset to base the point on, then the property you would like to show. For example, the below chart shows the value of

Query Types

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:26 +0000

Query Types This section provides more detail about the different types of query possible using ARDI and Grafana. The major types of query are... Point Queries Current Point Query Query Queries Selector Queries Table Query

Querying ARDI Data

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:05 +0000

Querying ARDI Data To make Grafana charts using ARDI data, you'll need to choose your ARDI data source when setting up a Grafana channel. A query is made up of several options.... Type There are a few different types of request. Type NameEffect

Installing the Grafana Addon

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:55:18 +0000

Installing the Grafana Addon To install the ARDI Grafana addon, download it from the Downloads area of the website. You can install it by copying the files to the /web/addons folder of your ARDI installation. Then enable the addon via Administration | Addons. Next Step

Installing the ARDI Plugin in Grafana

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:59:28 +0000

Installing the ARDI Plugin in Grafana To install the ARDI datasource for Grafana, you'll need to.... 1) Download the Plugin File 2) Extract the plugin file into your Grafana plugins directory (usually under data/plugins). 3) Open your Grafana settings (usually under /conf/custom.ini or /conf/default.ini) and add the following line to your configuration

Welcome to the Optrix Documentation Archive

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:53:25 +0000

Welcome to the Optrix Documentation Archive Please select the product you're interested in using... Core Applications ARDI Getting Started Just beginning in creating an ARDI system? Check out the Site Builder Tutorial to walk you though your first system. Interactive Addons

Distribution

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:00:52 +0000

Distribution The Distribution addon is designed to visually show how values are distributed between separators in your ARDI system. These are displayed as either tree maps or bar charts. Tree-maps are ideal if you're trying to understand the largest users/consumers/producers of resources, while bar charts are helpful if you're comparing totals.

Installation

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:51:49 +0000

Installation ARDI is available under two major platforms - Ubuntu Linux and Windows. Other versions of Linux such as Red Hat, Amazon Linux and Raspbian are also tentatively supported, but the installer scrips aren't kept as up-to-date as those for Ubuntu.

ARDI MCP

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:34:35 +0000

ARDI MCP MCP or the Model Context Protocol is a method for services to integrate into Large Language Models such as Copilot, Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT. It provides a range of tools that the AI can call to get information about assets and data. With these tools, you can directly ask LLMs in plain language to produce reports, analytics and detailed descriptions of the various parts of your system.

MCP Settings

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:18:04 +0000

MCP Settings You can set a few configuration options in the MCP settings, available from Administration | MCP Settings in the 'Addons' section of the menu. Site Details There are three pieces of information you can add about your site. Name is simply the name of the site the way you'd like it described to the AI model.

Interactive Addons

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:04:08 +0000

Home ARDI Core Documentation Interactive Addons ARDI 360 ARDI Compare ARDI Checklists ARDI Custom Links ARDI Correlia ARDI Data Explorer ARDI Distribution ARDI Export ARDI FirstSite ARDI Functions ARDI Index ARDI Infographics ARDI MiniDash ARDI Network Diagrams ARDI Reports ARDI Scatter ARDI Timeline ARDI Utilisation Pre-Release Addons Tools ARDI Agency ARDI Analytics ARDI i3X ARDI Javascript API ARDI MCP ARDI ModelHost ARDI Modular Output Te…

TimescaleDB

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:53:10 +0000

TimescaleDB This type of distribution sends incoming data to a TimescaleDB server to be recorded. TimescaleDB is a modified version of PostGRESQL designed to handle long term, high-speed time-series data without experiencing the major performance issues that arise when storing this sort of data in a traditional database engine.

Pre-Built Distributors

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:49:02 +0000

Pre-Built Distributors Below are the list of distributor modules that are included with ARDI 2026 and above. InfluxDB Memcache MQTT Per-Point Topics MQTT Event Notifications MQTT Per-Asset Topics Redis TimescaleDB Webhook

Configuring Live Data Distribution

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:37:06 +0000

Configuring Live Data Distribution To distribute live data to other locations, create a replication.json file in your site folder. The site folder is located in your ARDI installation directory, under /web/sites/. This file should contain JSON data similar to the example below

MQTT Event Notifications

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:46:50 +0000

MQTT Event Notifications This type of distribution sends incoming data to your MQTT server, with one topic per property. However, rather than being a live stream of updates, these topics are only sent updates when a significant change happens. For discrete values (on/off signals, statuses, text values etc.), messages will be sent with any change. This reflects machines turning on/off, doors closing etc.

ARDI Trigger

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:33:12 +0000

ARDI Trigger Trigger is a small Python library that allows you to create triggered responses. These responses can be based on live ARDI data, or the current time. It allows you to do practically anything in response to changes or patterns in your live data. While

RDF Addon - created

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:25:25 +0000

RDF Addon RDF is a format originally intended to document complex, interrelated structures and information on the web, and is sometimes being used in AI/LLM applications to describe these structures to AI models. The ARDI RDF addon allows ARDI servers to describe asset information via the

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optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:21:43 +0000