For decades, SINUSOID was the a key companion in our PI lives. But now SINUSOID is starting early retirement...
https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=kA01I00000079SKSAY
PS: Understandable though... for security we need to move to small footprint.
Well, i'm imagining the following post on PI Square: "installed PI, but SINUSOID not found?" "You first need to install and configure something else".
Like Steve commented, i understand the reasoning, but also would have preferred optional installation.
I understand the reasoning but I would have liked to see them as an option to install, much like the Performance Equation Scheduler is no longer installed by default but is available.
If old installation nothing will change
When upgrading from a previous version of PI Data Archive, these interfaces and default PI Points remain intact.
Lot's changing at OSIsoft these days, guess it is get on the bus time and embrace it, lol. Like saying goodbye to an old friend
Sinusoid and I have had our ups and downs over the years, but I will be sad to see it go...
There was something for everyone in these tags. For those who liked predictable, SINUSOID was great. For some more adventurous people CDT158 was the tag to go to. Frequent travellers prefer SINUSOIDU. And if you were really masochistic you used BA:CONC.1 and wonder the rest of your PI career what the data should represent! :-)
I know that sinusoid and sinusoidu were installed in PI 2, and likely even earlier versions. Are you certain that 1985 was when CDT158 first appeared on PI systems?
Actually, CD:T158 and DH:F166 (among others) were real tags on the original iPAT system at Hawaiian Independent Refinery. The simulators then were built to develop and test the interfaces that OSI built for the refinery. (DH:F166 was originally collected by a Taylor Mod 3 , CD:T158 was on Bailey Network 90)
BTW iPAT (the ancestor of PI) was called "interactive Plant Analysis Tool" - small "i" long, long before Apple iMAC was born. It ran on HP 1000 RTEA O/S.
Enquiring minds want to know......
LOL I see a great theme for T-shirts popping up for the next PI World...
Yes, I think we need to make some! I would proudly wear that one, I have so many YouTube videos and presentations where CDT158 was my wing man. I owe a lot to that PI Tag
Never forget the PI pants
(The pants are gone, but I believe I ripped the pockets off so they should be around somewhere)
That is so cool, I don't remember ever seeing that!
Yeah, that was for the first vCampus Live! in 2009.
You'll have to excuse the embroidery guy in the basement of the Levis store, he wasn't very familiar with the characteristics of CDT158
Yeah, now that I look at it I see what you mean. It should be ramping up. You should have given him a screenshot or something. I think the sinusoid looks cool, it looks kinda like barbwire.
So when are you getting the tattoos?
I remember Borre wearing a pair of those!
Always wanted a pair
No matter who makes the shirt Lonnie Bowling or Jarita Sirois I would like to go ahead and place my pre-order now hahaha, this is the greatest thing I've seen in ages!
Uploading the design to one of the print-to-order places such as zazzle or vistaprint would make it available to everyone.
Perhaps some group would want to create recognition shirts for their people. Ordering a bunch of shirts at once is less expensive than print-to-order.
So fun to see a bunch of PI Veterans geeking out about old tags.... I am imagining 10 years from now, newbie PI users stumbling on this post, and I am laughing at their puzzled faces already ... My day is made, lol
The very first release of the PI ODBC Driver in 1995 had a hard-coded dependency on the existence of SINUSOID. It was a bug in the SQL parsing logic. This was not noticed until a customer called tech support; he was one of the few who had deleted SINUSOID, The workaround? Re-create SINUSOID!
#sinusoid #cdt158. Can I please order a truckload of shirts, mugs, socks, and anything else we come up with to remember our dear friends! Stefanie Ordoveza we have a really cool theme here for PI World 2020.
For anybody not wanting a T-shirt of SINUSOID but the real thing, this is what you need:
SINUSOID and its 9 brethen are merely collateral damage to the decision not to include any interfaces in the PI Server installation. You may install still install the Random interface and those points as a separate installation. I can't imagine ever getting rid of SINUSOID as so many learning examples depend upon it.
I find it a tad annoying that I must do a separate install.