Ignition Maker Edition
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What Is Ignition Maker Edition?
Ignition Maker Edition is a community version of Inductive Automation's Ignition SCADA application. The Maker Edition enables those who want to explore and get inspired to build and automate their own projects in their home. Ignition Maker Edition is a free-license edition that is strictly available for non-commercial and personal educational use. Users are free to incorporate all of the modules and product features while creating their own projects.
For educational institutions, Inductive Automation has other options for a classroom setting or senior projects. Please contact our Sales team for more information.
What Can Maker Edition Do?
Maker Edition can do almost anything standard Ignition can do. You can seamlessly connect all your data, design any kind of application with ease, and instantly web-deploy clients to anyone, anywhere — all from one platform.
How Maker Edition Compares to Standard Edition
Make Edition differs from Standard Edition Ignition in the following ways:
- Maker licenses are free. Get one now in your IA account.
- Maker Gateways can support a maximum of 10 Perspective sessions.
- The Perspective Workstation is not available for Maker Edition.
- Maker Gateways can run up to 10,000 tags.
- In regards to redundancy, Maker Gateways can only be set to the Independent mode.
- You can create remote Tag Providers and Tag History Providers when the provider source is a Maker Gateway.
Ignition Maker Edition has limited module support. The table below represents Inductive Automation modules that are ready to use on Maker Gateways. Modules that aren't allowed to run on Maker will be removed during Maker's commissioning process.
| Module Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Alarm Notification | Provides alarm notifications via email. |
| Allen-Bradley Driver | Allen-Bradley driver suite for the OPC UA module. |
| Event Streams | Provides source and handler combinations to receive, filter, and transform event-driven data. |
| Historian | Adds powerful time-series historian functionality. |
| Logix Driver | A driver for communicating with Allen-Bradley Logix5000 series PLCs, and includes firmware version 21 support. |
| Modbus Driver | A driver for communicating with devices via Modbus-TCP. |
| Omron Driver | Drivers for Omron PLCs. |
| OPC UA | Provides Ignition's OPC UA client and server functionality. |
| Perspective | A module that provides modern, responsive HTML based graphical interfaces for Ignition projects. |
| Reporting | Adds reporting capability. |
| Serial Support (Gateway) | Adds platform-level serial comm support and system.serial functions to Gateway-scoped scripts. |
| SFC | Sequential Function Charts are customizable logic execution environments. |
| Siemens Driver | Legacy support for Siemens S7-300, S7-400, S7-1200, and S7-1500 drivers with absolute addressing. |
| Siemens S7 Symbolic | Support for Siemens S7-300, S7-400, S7-1200, and S7-1500 drivers with absolute and symbolic address options. |
| SQL Bridge | An OPC-to-SQL data logger and transaction manager. |
| SQL Historian | Enables time-series historian functionality to any SQL database in Maker Edition. |
| Twilio | Send SMS or voice alarm notifications without a physical device. |
| UDP/TCP Driver | Drivers for receiving and parsing UDP or TCP packets. |
| Web Dev | Allows you to create and serve basic web resources and respond to web requests through scripting. |
Third Party Modules
Module authors can allow their modules to run on Maker Edition. For more information, see the module's documentation.