Category Archives: WinCC Unified

Access to relational databases with WinCC Unified

Posted on 18. March 2023 by vogler

How to access relational databases in WinCC Unified? 👀 👉 Last night I developed a GraphQL Custom Web Control …🌟 With that and Hasura it is possible to read and write relational data.👉 Sources are here … not yet well documented … Continue reading →

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WinCC Unified V18 exposed to the Internet…

Posted on 7. December 2022 by vogler

This article will show how WinCC Unified can be accessed through a public available server in the internet. Disclaimer: I only did this for testing and demo purposes!!! First you need to have a public domain name and a public … Continue reading →

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GraphQL for Unity with WinCC Unified

Posted on 2. December 2022 by vogler

In this post I will show how data from WinCC Unified V18 can be brought into Unity with the GraphQL for Unity Pro Asset. First you need WinCC Unified V18 with the GraphQL Server. The GraphQL server comes out of … Continue reading →

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WinCC Unified GraphQL Server for Data Integration

Posted on 22. November 2022 by vogler

With the GraphQL Server in WinCC Unified V18 we can now integrate various (IT) data platforms with simple programs. Those programs can be written in Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, JavaScript, or whatever kind of programming language you prefer. In my … Continue reading →

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Unity3D in WinCC Unified

Posted on 17. August 2022 by vogler

There is a free Unity asset to simplify the creation of an WinCC Unified Custom Web Control out of an Unity3d application. So, with that you can easily build WinCCUnified screens with real time 3d content built with Unity. Short Demo: https://lnkd.in/dkckxXFmUnity Asset: https://u3d.as/2QTN

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Enable OPC UA Server in WinCC Unified

Posted on 27. November 2020 by vogler

In the TIA Portal you have to enable “Operate as OPC Server” in the Runtime Settings of your project. Download and restart the runtime, and then the OPC UA Server is listening on opc.tcp://localhost:4890. You need to have a user … Continue reading →

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How to disable security in WinCC Unified OPC UA Server…

Posted on 27. November 2020 by vogler

Caution! Don’t do this in a productive environment! Add a security police “None” to the OPC UA configuration file. On Windows you can find the file here: “C:\Program Files\Siemens\Automation\WinCCUnified\bin\OpcUaServerRTIL.xml”

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WinCC Unified Download Port

Posted on 17. September 2020 by vogler

Port 20008 is used to download a project from TIA Portal to the runtime. So, if you want to do a remote download then this port has to be open.

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How to view remote traces with RTILtraceViewer from a SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panel…

Posted on 3. August 2020 by vogler

First you have to enable the Trace forwareder on the panel Then you have to start a tool on the host where you have installed TIA with Unified (change IP to your Panel IP): Then you can start the trace … Continue reading →

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IIS Reverse Proxy Configuration

Posted on 10. November 2019 by vogler

If you need to add a reverse proxy to your Internet Information Server (IIS) you can just add a rule to your site configuration file. In the following example we add a reverse proxy (url rewrite) for a GraphQL Server … Continue reading →

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