I had often been disappointed that not all device connection properties for existing devices were easily available through supported scripting (system.device.listDevices()) . I recently had cause to develop a methodology to create/update/remove devices, UDTs (definitions/instances), tags and tag ala…

[image] tyler.bennett: Bonus: Found out late in the game that the Ignition gateway provides a URL ( http://localhost:8088/web/status/sys.internaldb ) with interface that can be used to query the internal database. [image] Musson Industrial's Embr-SNMP Module (BETA) 3rd …

Musson Industrial's Embr-SNMP Module (BETA) Go to your > Status > Overview page. <up><up><down><down><left><right><left><right><B><A> OK, I thought you were joking but I tried it and it works! Apparently I am not cultured enough to recognize that from the world of video games; had to look up …

So... My solution above was tested using a script transform on a custom property of a Perspective view that called the function from the project library. Today I was doing development and wanted the function results to use in designer script console. So I created a gateway message handler that wou…

[image] tyler.bennett: Can someone explain why Gateway events, including message handlers, use a python legacy scope that has peculiar constraints. (Fixed in v8.3.) Don't write code in gateway events. Just write a one-liner to call a project library script, and do everything else there. P…

How to read properties of existing device connection - Example Code

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