# Communication Studio 5000 with HMI Ignition **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** rockwell\ **Created:** [August 11, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/communication-studio-5000-with-hmi-ignition/109620 "2025-08-11T22:09:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![robertm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea5d25/32.png) [@robertm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/robertm)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/communication-studio-5000-with-hmi-ignition/109620/3 "2025-08-12T01:11:42Z")
As Transistor said, the native Ignition Logix driver talks to Control Logix PLCs. Just be sure you study the best practices for communicating to Logix PLCs in regards to AOIs (avoid direct reference), UDTs, Tag Groups, et al. > [@Ignition & Logix Best Practice Tips for better communications](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-logix-best-practice-tips-for-better-communications/60386): > > Hi All, After a whole bunch of issues I have gone down the rabbit hole of what is wrong with our setup on site. I will preface this by saying I a relatively new to all of this.... so be gentle stuck_out_tongue Based on much reading(such wow) I believe I have a list of things our site could take away for a better system. Some of them are easy to implement, whilst some of them need... significant work to realize. Especially the AOI approach in point 5 expressionless Before going too far a… Also, if this is a one off replacement, you may want to consider an Ignition Edge setup (2 clients) instead of a full blown Ignition install. Depends on what the future expansion plans would be. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/communication-studio-5000-with-hmi-ignition/109620)._