Control Seat V0.1.8
V0.1.8 opens up a real industrial component palette inside the editor. The OpenBridge design system is now available as drag-and-drop blocks with native Control Seat tag bindings. Alongside that, chart and worksheet queries are much more efficient, so pages with lots of signals load faster and heavy analytics no longer slow down live views.
What's in V0.1.8
OpenBridge component library (beta)
Four new block categories show up in the editor's block manager, all wired to Control Seat tags:
- Industrial Equipment — Analog Valve, Digital Valve, Pump, Motor, Fan, Damper, Filter, Tank, Value Readout. Bind a tag path and the component reads it live; optional alert/direction/setpoint tags drive state overlays.
- Industrial Pipes — Horizontal, Vertical, Corner, Tee, Cross, Overlap, Flow Arrow, End Cap. Stretchable P&ID line segments for building process diagrams.
- Industrial Gauges — Radial, Horizontal, Vertical, and Instrument Field. Scalar tag → animated needle/bar.
- OpenBridge Charts — Line Graph, Power Graph, Area Graph, Pie, Doughnut, Polar, Radial Bar. Series charts reuse the same Queries panel (SQL, Flux, PromQL, analytics) as the built-in charts.
The Power Graph deserves a dedicated call-out. It keeps the four familiar Power Chart toolbar modes — Pan/Zoom, X-Trace, Range Statistics, Annotate — plus CSV export, reference lines, and saved annotations. If you already know the existing Power Chart, this will feel familiar, just with the OpenBridge visual language and theme support (day / dusk / night / bright).
OpenBridge blocks behave the same way in the editor and on published pages, including when AI or scripts add them dynamically.
Beta caveats. This is the first release of the integration. A few OpenBridge components, including compass, alarm list, and some marine-specific instruments, are not available yet. Feedback on the components that are available is especially helpful in this release.
Trends & dashboards: query batching + heavy-query budget
Rebuilt the historian query path end to end. Two major shifts you'll feel immediately:
- Multi-tag aggregate batching. Dashboards and worksheets can now fetch many signals for the same time range together instead of one by one. Multi-pen worksheets and tag-heavy dashboards load noticeably faster.
- Separate background query capacity. Heavy analytics, backfills, and similar jobs no longer compete as directly with interactive chart reads, so live charts stay responsive while longer-running analysis is happening elsewhere.
Two smaller wins ride along:
- Smoother page loads. Large worksheets now pace requests more intelligently during initial load.
- Faster latest values. Current-value panels update more quickly.
Fit-and-finish
- Consistent tag picking — OpenBridge components use the same tag picker experience as the built-in charts.
- Published pages benefit too — the chart performance improvements apply across the product, not just in the editor.
- Safer large queries — oversized history requests are handled more defensively.
- Trends polish — the data table, overlay chart, statistics panel, and range overview all feel snappier.
Upgrade notes
- Pages that use OpenBridge components load additional assets for that component library. Pages without OpenBridge blocks are unaffected.
That's V0.1.8. Beta feedback on the OpenBridge components is the main thing we're looking for this cycle.