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Introduction | Installation
This is a recipe to setup a free test system for using the CODESYS library, co⚡e: Sparkplug™ MQTT edge and host, with Ignition by Inductive Automation acting as the Primary Host.
If you follow this recipe closely it "should" take you between 1 or 2 hours, depending on your experience.
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It's up to you to decide which flavor of Ignition you wish to run as they are identical but differ in use-case scenario.
The provided information is not intended as advertisement but merely to provide you with enough information for you to make a choice on what installation is best suited for you.
Ignition Maker Edition has powerful industrial-grade features of Ignition Enterprise by Inductive Automation️® to any number of your personal or educational projects
at no cost. All you need is a permanent internet connection for it to work (so called 'always connected'). This seems for most purposes the optimal choice.
https://inductiveautomation.com/ignition/maker-edition for more information
This is the full fledged version of Ignition Enterprise SCADA. Without proper licensing it runs in a DEMO trial period for 2 hours.
The trialperiod can be extended an unlimited amount of times by a single push of a button.
https://inductiveautomation.com/ignition/ for more information
Host software
Client Software
This guide assumes you have Windows 10 and the OpenSSH Client feature already installed on a PC. Feel free to deviate in any way from this guide.
Download the latest version of all the components listed above:
With the CODESYS Development System V3 installer, CODESYS Control Win 64 and CODESYS Gateway 64 are also installed.
Once CODESYS Development System is installed, double click the IIoT Libraries SL package to install it. This has a 30 minute demo, which is reset when you restart the PLC.
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Use scp from a windows command prompt to copy the installer to your linux box
You did it!
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