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Ignition is an Industrial Application Platform that can be used to create SCADA and HMI solutions. A fully functional Ignition system can be downloaded and run in a trial mode running for two hours at a time with unlimited restarts. Using Ignition as a tool in this way allows us to install the Sparkplug MQTT Modules and observe everything working.
Ignition Edge is a leaner version of Ignition made specifically for use in on edge-of-network devices. Ignition comes with unlimited Tags, Clients, and database connections, while Ignition Edge comes with unlimited Tags, two Clients (one local and one remote) and no database connectivity.
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Once the Ignition installer has been downloaded, follow the instructions provided by Inductive Automation to install and start Ignition.
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Take note of your user/password you create as part of this installation process as you will need these credentials to load modules and configure this instance. |
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Once the Ignition installer has been downloaded, follow the instructions provided by Inductive Automation to install and start either Ignition or Ignition Edge
Instructions for Installing and Upgrading Ignition
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Take note of your user/password you create as part of this installation process as you will need these credentials to load modules and configure this instance. |
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To test your connection, make a change to the tag value on the secondary machine with MQTT Transmission installed. Double click on the Example Tag value '1', change the value, and watch it update at the Ignition Designer connected to the MQTT Engine provider.Note:
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The Ignition Designer tool is not by default in Read/Write mode so your first attempt to write a new value to this Example Tag will ask you to select |
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either Cancel | Enable Read/Write Mode | Write Once. Select Write Once or Read/Write to allow Tag value changes. |
For more detail on how the MQTT Transmission Transmitter configurations interact with the Ignition tag trees to publish MQTT messages and tags to an MQTT Server, see the MQTT Transmission Transmitters and Tag Trees tutorial.
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