Quick Start

How to install

Dashboards is automatically installed along with RT-LAB and HYPERSIM.

Creating a table

1. Create a Table board from the Navigation Pane. See Menus and Navigation Pane.

2. Go to your model’s table and select data points to be added to your board. See Data Point Tables.

3. Use the context menu or drag and drop the data points into the board.

4. Go to your Table board – it should now contain all of your data points of interest.

Creating a panel

1. Create a Panel board from the Navigation Pane. See Menus and Navigation Pane.

2. In the Panel, add widgets to the diagram. See Panels, Diagrams and Widgets

3. For the complete list of widgets, see Widgets Library.

4. Use the data point picker to connect your widgets to other data points. See Connecting Data Points.

Uninstalling

1. Go in Windows → Setting → Apps & features or use the path of the location of uninstall.exe is C:\OPAL-RT\OpalOne\<versionToUninstall>.

2. Open the uninstaller and select the components to uninstall.

3. If more than one version of Opal One is installed on your computer, the Opal One Services, Opal One Database and Application Server components cannot be uninstalled.

4. The uninstall option for the Opal One Services, Opal One Database and Application Server components will be available when uninstalling the last version of Opal One.

5. An additional option allows suppression of all stored data on your computer. If selected, this suppression cannot be undone by reinstalling the Opal One software.

Copyright

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Known Issues & Limitations

• The execution of RT-LAB and HYPERSIM at the same time is not supported with Dashboards

• OPAL-RT Dashboards only works with 64-bits targets (only OPAL-RTLinux 3 or Windows targets, not Red Hat nor CentOS);

• No undo-redo;

• No user authentication/session management;

• Signal values can be visualized in Panels only, not in Tables;

• For projects with more than 30k data points, it is recommended to use the Python API to create panels and connect data points

• Tab Group widgets are not supported by the Python API and the copy-paste.

RT-LAB 2024.2

• Launching multiple models at the same time may leads to data not appearing in graph widgets if data point share the same name.

• Boolean data points are not visible in Dashboards

• Dashboards does not support block or parameter with accent.

HYPERSIM 2024.2

• HYPERSIM unit system is not available in Dashboards.

• Equality of multidimensional parameters in HYPERSIM cannot be enforced in Dashboards.

• Dashboards may hide HYPERSIM pop-up error message.

• If Analyze is done and the project is then closed without being saved at least once, connections between data points of HYPERSIM model with sub-circuits and widgets may be lost.

RT-LAB 2024.1 (Additional limitation)

• Error message “Dashboards seams unavailable” may appears at start of RT-LAB if Dashboards installation is not successful. An independent reinstallation of Dashboard is needed.

• Launching multiple models at the same time may leads to data not appearing in graph widgets. To solve the issue, start the models sequentially.

HYPERSIM 2024.1 (Additional limitation)

• Error message “Dashboards seams unavailable” may appears at start of HYPERSIM if Dashboards installation is not successful. An independent reinstallation of Dashboard is needed.

RT-LAB 2023.3 (Additional limitation)

• Multi-dimensional parameters and signals not supported in Panels;

HYPERSIM 2023.3 (Additional limitation)

• Multi-dimensional parameters and signals not supported in Panels;

• Removing a sensor from the HYPERSIM sensors list does not remove it from the Dashboards list. If a connection exists between a widget and a removed sensor, the HYPERSIM simulation will not start until the connection is removed.

• When a simulation started in Dashboards fails to launch in HYPERSIM, an internal message is shown in Dashboards and the model status can be desynchronized. Use the fetch button to resynchronize.

• In the graph widget, visual horizontal shifting of value happens when:
  - The trigger condition is set to rising edge, the trigger level is positive and the X position is at 0%.
  - The trigger condition is set to falling edge, the trigger level is negative and the X position is at 0%.
  Setting the X position at any other value stops the horizontal shifting.

RT-LAB 2023.2 (Additional limitation)

• Renaming Simulink models in RT-LAB may result in synchronization issues in Dashboards.

• Once Opal One v1.2 is installed (RT-LAB or HYPERSIM 2023.2), reinstalling Opal One v1.0 (RT-LAB or HYPERSIM 2023.1) might break the compatibilities of Opal One v1.2. Reinstall Opal One v1.2 to solve the issue.

HYPERSIM 2023.2 (Additional limitation)

• Once Opal One v1.2 is installed (RT-LAB or HYPERSIM 2023.2), reinstalling Opal One v1.0 (RT-LAB or HYPERSIM 2023.1) might break the compatibilities of Opal One v1.2. Reinstall Opal One v1.2 to solve the issue.

RT-LAB 2023.1 (Additional limitation)

• No copy-cut-paste;

HYPERSIM 2023.1 (Additional limitations)

• No copy-cut-paste;

• Opening Dashboards for more than one HYPERSIM model may result in synchronization issues;

Contact

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