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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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- Ignition can run on a laptop, in the cloud via an AWS EC2 instance or some other development computer.
- Ignition Edge can run on one of many supported embedded edge of network gateways, a laptop or development computer, a Raspberry Pi (load ARMHF version), or also in a cloud service.
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Step 1: Download the Cirrus Link MQTT Modules
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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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| For this test infrastructure, MQTT Distributor will be installed as an Ignition module. On your primary machine, remember to either turn off firewalls or at a minimum allow inbound connections to TCP/IP port #1883 and port #8883, as remote MQTT Clients will need to be able to establish a TCP/IP socket connection to these ports. |
Step 3: Secondary machine - download and install Ignition or Ignition Edge
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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 IgnitionImportant Note:
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Step 4a: Primary machine - install the MQTT Modules on Ignition Gateway
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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.
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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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- Allow outbound tag writes. Video 9: Allow Outbound Tag Writes: Implementing MQTT in Ignition
- Disable MQTT Transmission to see the tags go stale in MQTT Engine
- Set the 'Primary Host ID'. This is a setting that is highly recommended and should be set on both MQTT Engine and any MQTT Transmission instances that are reporting in as well. Video 10: Primary Host ID Setting: Implementing MQTT in Ignition
- Modify the tags folder to add additional memory tags Creating Tags in Ignition and force an update to the Ignition Gateway Using the MQTT Transmission Refresh Mechanism
- TLS enable the MQTT Distributor module and disable port 1883. Video 11: How to Set Up Transport Layer Security: Implementing MQTT in Ignition
- Set up Store-and-Forward in MQTT Transmission to show data being saved when the connection goes down. Video 12: Set Up Store-and-Forward System: Implementing MQTT in Ignition
- Load and configure a database on the primary ignition gateway and then associate Tag History using Ignition Designer Tag Historian in Ignition
- Use a Custom Transmitter rather than the Default Transmitter to provide more flexibility on the MQTT Transmission side in terms of tag tree/arrangement MQTT Transmission Transmitters and Tag Trees
- Add additional MQTT Transmission modules pointed at the single MQTT Distributor instance set up in this tutorial
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