““But the language of most users seems to be Portuguese, and it makes getting support a bit hard.””
The developers and some users speak a little English, you can post your questions in English, be aware that support for this Scada is modest even in Portuguese because not is paid software.
“Can someone explain if ScadaBR has a vision to be multi-lingual. What is the development path for ScadaBR?”
Yes, Portuguese and English usually when you add a protocol is done for the two languages.
Is it open-source? Can it be forked onto github so that I can add to some development?
Yes totally open source, add development will be well received
First of all, as a part of ScadaBR development team, I’d like to welcome you to our community. Our project is indeed a spin-off of Mango M2M. We’re proud to learn we have potential users in Australia! This means we’re doing something right!
Supporting the utilities sector (water and energy) is one of the reasons we devoted our time to this project. Which we understand is still far from complete.
As Rafael L replied, most of this community understands English enough to reply your questions. We might, though, have a little difficulty understanding some technical terms of your scenario, but we’ll try our best (there’s always translate.google.com)! Please feel free to post questions. We’re close to release our new portal. It will not contain a English-only section, but should be more non-Portuguese friendly.
As for the vision, we strived for an international project from the start, so, code-wise, we always attempted to name methods and in-code documentation in English. If you find something different, please let us know. Help documentation is attempted to be more multi-lingual comprehending, to date, Portuguese, English and Spanish.
The project is intended to be fully open-source and sources for everything should be available. Again if you find some closed source components, please let us know so we can made it available as well. From the top of my mind, I seem to recall one or two libraries that we inherithed from Mango M2M we did not have the code. I think the modbus implementation was one of them.
We have a open invitation to developers. If you’re interested, contact us with your sourceforge.net username so you can join our development team.
Also, if your willing, please write us an article about your implementation using ScadaBR. We’ll be happy to host it!
Your project seems to be doing fantastic work. I’m really impressed with the product, and can’t believe I haven’t noticed it until now, it certainly deserves a lot more attention worldwide.
Hopefully I can be contribute to the project doing great things and getting wider recognition.
I’m the Project Manager for Energy Efficiency at a water corporation and have a background in IT development, especially open-source. Part of my role is integration of energy meters on our modbus-RTU SCADA network. I’m also investigating wide-area sensor networks, Arduino low-cost sensors, wireless networks, “the internet of things”, pachube, also carbon management.
The SCADA business is all new to me though, so I’m catching up as fast as I can.
Just a note, I’m getting a warning on this website after I log in: “warning: Parameter 1 to profile_load_profile() expected to be a reference, value given in /var/www/scadabr/includes/module.inc on line 462”. It appears to be Drupal based CMS(?), I have used Drupal a lot in the past and recognize it’s layout. I can log in OK, but I can’t change my default language to English, so all the menus and text labels are in Portuguese.
welcome, we are proud of getting attention “from the other side of the world”.
our friend GTL summarized very well our vision.
ScadaBR is successfully used in our local water company, and we have at least one notice from water company in France too. It is very capable of integrating Modbus RTU and Modbus TCP as well as OPC and others.
CMS is Drupal indeed, it is already getting old but we’re upgrading to new Drupal soon. thank you for the notice.
if you can handle a bit of copy/paste into Google Translator for now, we have also integration with Arduino and Modbus https://sites.google.com/a/certi.org.br/certi_scadabr/home/minicursos/arduino
I think Scadabr is really a scada software to the top.
I'm in the industry and this scada is fairly superior to all uber complicated scada I seen.
I think that Scadarb should make two things to attract more developer and became a leader:
1) Move the source code to a place where it's more convenient to contribute (github) and have a proper bug tracker/projecet management. You could use the github one, or setup a redmine one.
2) You should absolutely switch from the non English main site to an English one. I'm open to contribute, so please bear in mind.
ScadaBR site is been modified to support multi-language, and we intend to achieve this ASAP. The project was firstly visualized to be a national initiative, but as time goes by, we see more and more non-Brazilians accessing it.
We are currently on sourceforge, but some people say it´s not as seemless to contribute through it´s apps. Github is being considered, but it´s a decision that shall take some time.
For now, we work with what we got =]
Thanks for the input, and feel free to contribute anytime
I'm from Venezuela (spanish/english speaking), I belong to a team of industrial automation, and we are testingScadaBRsystem for monitoring andcontrol offield operations in oil&gas area.
I inform you that,to usecorrectly the America/Caracas time zone(recently changed), wehad toreplace joda-time jar library(version1.3)with an updated version(2.1),downloadingthe joda-time-2.1-dist.tar.gz file fromwebsite http://sourceforge.net/projects/joda-time/files/joda-time/2.1/ ,andreplacing the joda-time-1.3.jar file by joda-time-2.1.jar file on path /WEB-INF/lib, inside ScadaBR.war file.
Because ofthis,we submit foryour considerationperformthe same updatein the nextreleases of theScadaBRsystem.
I replaced joda-time-1.6.jar with joda-time-2.2.jar. Now I'm just not able to get ScadaBR up and running on the server. Is there anything else I need to change after replacing the jar file?
