Getting Started

Getting started with FUXA

The goal of this tutorial is to demonstrate the basic usage of the most popular FUXA features. You will learn how to:

• Connect devices to FUXA
• Push data from devices to FUXA
• Build a real-time GUI SCADA/HMI/Dashboard
• Define thresholds and trigger alarms

Prerequisites

You will need to have FUXA server up and running. To install FUXA using Installation Guide. FUXA UI will be available using the URL: http://localhost:1881.

Principally FUXA web server performs two page:

• Visualization for end-user http://localhost:1881/home
• Editor to project and design http://localhost:1881/editor

Step 1. Connect device and configure tags

To connect the device you need to get the device credentials first. FUXA supports various devices: Modbus RTU/TCP, Siemens S7 Protocol, OPC-UA, BACnet IP, MQTT, Ethernet/IP (Allen Bradley). After you connected to a device, you can configure the subscriptions of the live values, Tags, Sensor, etc. You may find configuration guide by here HowTo Devices and Tags

Step 2. Create Visualization

We will create a View and add the most popular widgets. See the instructions below.

Step 2.1 Create Empty View

HowTo create View

Step 2.2 Bind Controls to View

HowTo bind Controls

Step 2.3 Bind Shapes to View

HowTo bind Shapes

Step 2.4 Bind Chart Control to View

HowTo chart Control

Step 3. Configure UI Layout

HowTo UI Layout

Step 4. Configure Alarms

HowTo setup Alarms

Step 5. Activate and create customer user

Tips and tricks