I am brand-new to Ignition (I set up my first gateway last week) so I apologize if this is a dumb question, but is it possible to create and assign tag groups through the API the gateway exposes (which I think is new in 8.3?)
My use case is similar to what was discussed about a year ago here: Ignition Scripting of new Devices without Designer - #8 by Kevin.Herron - I want to be able to add Modbus devices to a gateway programmatically, and it looks like I can get a lot of the way there with the new API - there’s a ‘Create Devices’ endpoint that looks like it takes enough configuration that I can set the ModbusTCP device and port and other configuration information with just a POST call, and then even better, I think I can upload an ‘address-mapping.txt’ for it and get registers mapped, and then they’ll hopefully show up in the internal OPC-UA server for Ignition, which is awesome. (I haven’t tried this yet, a fully automated run is tomorrow morning’s project)
However, in just experimenting with it on the Gateway only, it looks like the default Modbus polling is 1 second, and the way to fix that is with Tag groups and adjusting the polling setting on the group, but in poking around in the OpenAPI documentation page on the gateway I can’t figure out how/if I can create a new tag group in the gateway and assign my newly mapped registers to that tag group.
I would like to avoid the Designer if possible, in part because at scale pointing and clicking is not ideal, and just more practically for the moment I’m experimenting on my Macbook with an ARM Ubuntu VM in UTM, and the Gateway works great, but Designer doesn’t run here.