Groov View Node-Red Account Information

[manuel.bautista]

Can I pull groov View user account info into Node-RED? I want to track which operator is logging into a specific HMI (Windows-based) and send that info to an external application using Node-RED. The operator will enter their production numbers into the HMI. Currently, there are four stations, and operators can move between them as needed. Is there any other way to get the username info from groov View into Node-RED? The plan would be to use groov Server for Windows with Node-RED version 3.0.2.

[Beno]

Welcome to the Opto Forums Manuel.

We don’t have an exact bit of code to do that, so you will need to tweak things a bit, but Terry talks about viewing that sort of data in this thread:

HTTP request any groov device logs

Programmatically getting, saving, and sending logs is very useful whether done on a schedule or in response to an event or error. With groov Manage there’s a really clean way to get any logs with an HTTP request to make this trivial to implement. I’ll use Node-RED as an example, but as long as you properly authenticate this should work with any HTTP tools you want to use. First log in to groov Manage and navigate to Info and Help → Logs, then select from over a dozen software and system logs. F…

[manuel.bautista]

Thanks, Beno. I’ll give it a try!