# Help me with opc! **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** opcua, perspective, ignition81\ **Created:** [July 17, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605 "2025-07-17T12:14:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michele\_Infante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@Michele\_Infante](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michele_Infante)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/1 "2025-07-17T12:14:22Z")
I had an issue with this opc tag, this tag as u can see on the screen is the same identical tags with same address, can u explain me wy 1 is on good and the other in on bad\_notconnected? ![Screenshot 2025-07-17 122101](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/6/469662a5bb8b7e31c2d4d78e04b83ccb8ef721a8.png) ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/2 "2025-07-17T12:28:28Z")
Your screenshot cuts off too early - is the configured OPC Server the same for both tags? ---
**Author:** ![Michele\_Infante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@Michele\_Infante](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michele_Infante)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/3 "2025-07-17T12:32:27Z")
Yeah is the same server! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/a/3a5c64e101e0e744468bc4872ec4167200543f02.png) ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/4 "2025-07-17T12:36:32Z")
Did you create this tags by drag and drop? Does it happen every time, for any tag from this server, when creating duplicates? ---
**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/5 "2025-07-17T12:41:03Z")
Tip: resize the window before taking a screengrab. Yours is 95% whitespace with half a screen width between the label and the value making it hard to read. Reducing the window to 50% width would solve this. ---
**Author:** ![Michele\_Infante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@Michele\_Infante](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michele_Infante)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/6 "2025-07-17T13:22:48Z")
You are right, sorry for the bad screenshot! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/a/fa3cb67284b3339da45aa01aff8e838414ea77dc.png) ---
**Author:** ![Michele\_Infante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@Michele\_Infante](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michele_Infante)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/7 "2025-07-17T13:23:36Z")
Yeah every time i create a duplicates on this server ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/8 "2025-07-17T13:29:55Z")
Sounds like a bug with the server then. If you can get a Wireshark capture with security for the connection disabled we can verify that. ---
**Author:** ![robertm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@robertm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/robertm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/9 "2025-07-17T13:49:20Z")
Judging from the timestamps are we even sure the original tag is good? Its last timestamp was a year ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/10 "2025-07-17T14:36:09Z")
I noticed that, my assumption is that the OPC server's clock is not set correctly. Since it's an OPC tag we're using the timestamp provided by the server. ---
**Author:** ![Michele\_Infante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@Michele\_Infante](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michele_Infante)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/11 "2025-07-17T14:56:17Z")
I didn’t set up NTP on this PLC. However, after some testing, I discovered that if I change the value after copying the tag, it works. But if the tag value doesn’t change, the copy remains in a bad state. ---
**Author:** ![Michele\_Infante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@Michele\_Infante](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michele_Infante)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/12 "2025-07-17T14:56:41Z")
Can't wireshark ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-me-with-opc/108605/13 "2025-07-17T15:45:41Z")
Well, you could turn on the logger for `DataValueConsumer` to TRACE level and probably see the initial null/Bad\_NotConnected come in, and then watch, uh... the absence of values arriving. But it's a little less compelling than something objective like a Wireshark capture when you have to go report a bug. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/e/0e78785ad72536af9670592ad6dc2f22321f3b81.png)