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What does requestedUpdateRate really mean?

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16 Jan 2013 21:12 #1180 by bjh
Replied by bjh on topic Re: What does requestedUpdateRate really mean?
i believe that #2 is the more common interpretation / implementation. for data updating every 2 seconds, even if it is only 1% of your data, i would specify an update rate of 1000 msec or 1500 msec just to make sure that a slight timing issue wouldn't cause any data to be missed. if your other data is only changing every 12.5 or 15 seconds you will generally only be seeing that data every 12.5 or 15 seconds. keep in mind that the server's 1 second tick is not necessarily synchronized to your application's 1 second tick.

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14 Jan 2013 19:04 #1172 by support
Replied by support on topic Re: What does requestedUpdateRate really mean?
The component does not interpret the RequestedUpdateRate, it just passes it to the OPC Server, and the server should process it according to OPC specs. There is some ambiguity as to what can happen, but #4 is never correct. Most servers will do #2 or #3. Some servers will do #1, if at least the timestamp has changed (meaning that a new value has been collected, even if it's the same) - to allow for proper historizing/logging in case of values that are constant for long periods of time.
If you know upfront which items are updating fast and which are slow, you should set the RequestedUpdateRate differently for those items - that is perfectly possible, just use different instances of DAItemGroupArguments (or one instance for every item, and fill them all one by one). If you do not know this, and you must catch all updates, then your only choice is to use the lowest number of all.

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14 Jan 2013 18:47 #1171 by tlaford
What does requestedUpdateRate really mean? was created by tlaford
I call the DAItemGroupArguments() constructor and specify 15000 for the requestedUpdateRate and then use that instance in a SubscribeMultipleItems() call.

But, what does "requestedUpdateRate = 15000" really mean?

Does it mean:

Every 15 seconds data will be sent even if the data hasn't changed
Every 15 seconds data will be sent only if the data has changed
Data will be sent as soon as it changes with a minimum of 15 seconds between updates (this is essentially the same as #2)
Data will be sent as soon as it changes with a maximum of 15 seconds between updates

If 99% of my data is updating ever 12.5 seconds (or 10 seconds, or 15 seconds), but 1% of my data is updating every 2 seconds (or less) what is the best update rate setting?

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