Issue with OPC browsing 8.3

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I’m having issues browsing my OPC DA connection. I have a OPC Classic connection to my ABB OPC Server where we have about 35 controllers connected. In 8.1, i could use the “OPC Quick Client” to browse these controllers but as of 8.3 this is removed from the gateway.

I have tried using the “OPC Browser” in the designer but I get a 30 second “timeout” error before reaching the tags. The OPC Server is known to be slow, and even in the OPC Quick Client on 8.1 it takes longer than 30 seconds to browse into the application of the controller.

Has anyone had similar problems? This is the timeout error im getting, can I increase the time before timeout for this error?:

ExecutionException: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Idle timeout expired: 30000/30000 ms
caused by TimeoutException: Idle timeout expired: 30000/30000 ms

The OPC connection is green and we have made som tags that are correctly polling/updating, so I can confirm the OPC connection is working.

Thankful for any tips

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I don't know about the connection timeout, but on v8.3.3, the quick client returns. You may also check into if your ABB OPC server is capable of using OPC-UA as I don't know how much longer IA is going to support the old OPC-DA connections since it's an older protocol that's notorious for being troublesome.