Inquiry Regarding @opcua/for-node-red Usage, Licensing & Alternatives

Developing Nodes
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Dear Sterfive Team,

We are currently evaluating the use of the @opcua/for-node-red package in our industrial automation solution, where Node-RED will be used to communicate with PLCs for reading and writing OPC UA-based attributes.

Could you kindly clarify the following:

  1. Licensing Requirements:
  • Does the use of @opcua/for-node-red in a production environment require a commercial license?
  • If yes, please provide the cost and duration details for a typical deployment.
  • Is there a free/open-source tier for non-commercial or limited use?
  1. Node Capabilities:
  • Does this node fully support both reading and writing to PLC attributes?
  • Are there any limitations or restrictions in its current version?
  1. Alternative Nodes:
  • Are there other free and open-source OPC UA Node-RED nodes that you would recommend for basic read/write operations with PLCs?

We aim to finalize our technology stack soon and would appreciate your input to make an informed decision.

Looking forward to your response.

Best regards,
Vinay M
Technical Architect
Wipro Technologies
[Contact Info] +91-9502981672

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Hi @Vinnu - welcome to the forum.

You may have more luck asking on the developers public repository here: GitHub · Where software is built

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ok let me check

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You can see the license here.

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@Steve-Mcl is it normal that we include on the node-red flows page, nodes that cannot be used without paying a royalty? This is the first time I have noticed such a node there.

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Im getting above license error where can I buy license and what would be the duration of license the @opcua/for-node-red from sterfive.com

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A contrib node must be in the library to be available in the palette manager, so yes, this is valid.

@Vinnu the node does (should) (used to) offer a single server unlicenced - so you can try out the features before you buy. As soon as you add a 2nd server to the node, the license is required.

If you delete all server configs except 1 then restart node-red, the single free license becomes operational again.

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Is there any free version of opcua node for interacting with PLC IoT devices? if so please give the nodes to be used that can be used even in production version

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Several: Library - Node-RED

But the more popular OPCUA node is: node-red-contrib-opcua (node) - Node-RED

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let me check on this node node-red-contrib-opcua (node) - Node-RED