ARDI Documentation

Major Python Upgrades

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:04:43 +0000

Major Python Upgrades Many ARDI drivers and services use the Python language. Over time, new versions of Python are released and older versions stop being supported. Because of this, there may be the need to update the major Python version during major releases of ARDI.

Installation: Windows

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:43:25 +0000

Installation: Windows This guide covers the basics to install ARDI onto a Windows 7 or 10 host. Note that this installation is only available as a 32-bit installer. Because many industrial applications are only available as 32-bit applications, ARDI needs to be installed as a 32 bit application in order to take advantage of them.

Saving Large Addresses & Certificates

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:00:32 +0000

Saving Large Addresses & Certificates If you want to save very large query strings, long security keys, SSL certificate chains etc, when building a web interface for your data source, you may find that there's not enough room in the database to store all of your information. In this case, we suggest you use the

Creating a Web Interface

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:59:48 +0000

Creating a Web Interface The last step of building a driver is to create a web interface. All in all, we need two of them - one to set up a connection to the data source itself (ie. the address of the server, login details etc) and one to bind a single ARDI property to data from that source (ie. choosing a column from a database, tag from a historian etc.).

Creating an ARDI Live Driver - [Creating a Web Interface]

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:58:40 +0000

Creating an ARDI Live Driver This tutorial will re-create the ARDI Live Text driver as an example of how to create your own ARDI driver in Python. The Sketch To begin, we will sketch out the basic structure of our Python script. First, create a new folder in

Python Driver Developer SDK

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:51:35 +0000

Python Driver Developer SDK ARDI includes a library of files to assist in the rapid creation of ARDI drivers. Most drivers built by Optrix are deliberately left open and documented so they can be used as basis for 3rd parties to create their own drivers. They can also be copied and enhanced if your application needs very specific alterations.

Helpful Functions

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:24:17 +0000

Helpful Functions Below are a couple of utility functions that might be useful when developing drivers. Timezone Conversion Assuming you have a 'pytz' object called tz in your class that contains the timezone that is considered 'local' for your data source, you can use the following functions

Creating an ARDI Event Driver - [RunQuery]

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:16:47 +0000

Creating an ARDI Event Driver This tutorial will re-create the ARDI LogFile Event driver as an example of how to create your own ARDI driver in Python. Many of the steps are very similar to those from our Creating an ARDI Live Driver tutorial - however the functions that we create are a little different.

User Interfaces That Integrate with the Data Source

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:37:17 +0000

User Interfaces That Integrate with the Data Source ARDI 2026 added the new Introspection function to the driver framework. This optional driver feature is used to ask the underlying system for information that would be useful when creating a user-interface. For example, the

Creating an ARDI Historical Driver - [Creating A Web Interface]

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:14:16 +0000

Creating an ARDI Historical Driver This tutorial will re-create the ARDI Historical Text driver as an example of how to create your own ARDI driver in Python. Many of the steps are very similar to those from our Creating an ARDI Live Driver tutorial - however the functions that we create are a little different.

Adding MCP Tools for Addons

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:54:18 +0000

Adding MCP Tools for Addons If you are authoring an ARDI addin, you may want to make certain endpoints available to LLMs via the MCP addon. You can do this by creating an mcp.json file in your plugin folder. The file should look like the example below

MCP Tools - created

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:18:35 +0000

MCP Tools assetsearch - This tool is used to validate the name/ID number of an ARDI asset or set of assets. It takes a semi-colon or comma-delimited list of potential asset names. Models are encouraged to always call this endpoint first to confirm asset identity before using other functions.

ARDI MCP

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:03:59 +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.

OPC-UA Driver

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:09:19 +0000

OPC-UA Driver Information OPC-UA is the replacement for the older OPC-DA standard. Driver InfoDetailDriver Type:Live OnlyPlatforms:All Driver Settings This driver has two options. OptionDescriptionAddressThe address of the OPC-UA host machine, including the port number

Timeselector Options - created

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:30:51 +0000

Timeselector Options The following options can be used when creating a time control. Required parameters are startDate, endDate and onrangechange. By default, this will allow the user to select a range of time in the past. You can use the mode and liveOption options to modify this behaviour.

Time Control Documentation

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:12:47 +0000

Time Control Documentation The Time Control is used to create ARDI-style time/date selection boxes in 3rd party products or ARDI addons. Importing To use it, you'll first need to import the required Javascript libraries.

ARDI Javascript Controls

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:06:58 +0000

ARDI Javascript Controls To help 3rd party products integrate with ARDI, we offer a few Javascript controls designed to help you add ARDI visual elements into other web-based products. Time Control The Time Control returns both a local and a UTC time or time range based on the users selection. As well as being able to simply select times, users can also select

Welcome to the Optrix Documentation Archive

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:59:26 +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

Core API

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:56:07 +0000

Core API The Core REST API for ARDI allows you to integrate 3rd party software with your ARDI system. These libraries are designed to let you create, query and modify ARDI assets and to explore relationships. Note that these addons are focused more on

Signing Your Requests

optrix@undisclosed.example.com (optrix) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:47:18 +0000

Signing Your Requests To sign your request, you simply need to include your authcode (returned from a request to /api/auth) in order to confirm your identity. You can do this by adding the authcode to your query parameters, or by setting the authcode request header.