Startup Guide
When getting started with Ignition, it helps to have a general idea about the major steps involved in designing your SCADA/HMI projects. Although there are many creative and innovative ways of using Ignition to do almost anything you want, we outlined some simple steps that can guide you in setting up a project. In very little time, you can get a sample project up and running.
📄️ 1. Download and Install Ignition
Installation is simple and can be done in under 3 minutes. Let's get started and install now.
📄️ 2. Launch the Gateway
The Ignition Gateway is a web server. When it is running, you can access it through a web browser in just a few steps.
📄️ 3. Connect to a Device
Ignition can connect to many different devices natively with the built-in OPC-UA Server.
📄️ 4. Connect to a Database
After you install your database, you can connect it to Ignition. Alternatively, you can have Ignition create an internal SQLite database, which is ideal for testing, demonstrations, and just getting started. This next section will show how to create and connect Ignition to a SQLite database.
📄️ 5. Open the Designer
Now that you set up a device (Connect to a Device) and database (Connect to a Database) connections, let's open the Designer and create a project.
📄️ 6. Create Tags
With the Designer open, a great first step is to create some Tags. Once there, Tags are all configured in the Tag Browser panel. You'll use these Tags for realtime status and control and to store history with the Tag Historian.
📄️ 7. Add History to Tags
Storing history for your Tags is simple, and once that's done we can display it on screen in a variety of ways. If you are connected to a database (Connect to a Database), you are ready to add history to some of our Sine Tags.