I'm New: Creating HMI using data from SEL 3555 RTAC

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Hello.

I'm brand new to Ignition, but I've watched almost all the videos to try to get up to speed. I have an HMI for a small electric utility test system that I've created using the SEL Diagram Builder software that runs on an SEL 3555 RTAC. This software is pretty limited, so I'm in the process of recreating it in Ignition. I'm pretty familiar with the SEL Diageam Builder software, but not so much with the RTAC configs. But I can make changes and can get help on that end.

I've added the data sources (using both the new and legacy dnp3 drivers) and can see the points in ignition. What I'm missing is the tag names that I'm accustomed to seeing when I'm using the RTAC. For example, where I'm used to seeing AI_Union_Terry_MV_VA I see AnalogInput282. This is workable, but will be pretty tedious to look up the names/points when creating or editing things.

Is there a way to pull the RTAC tag names into Ignition? It looks like I should be able to use the legacy driver to setup aliases, but I gather it would be better to avoid this is possible. OR is there something else I should be doing that I'm too green to see?

FWIW, my old HMI uses 617 tags, and this will never be used for production. (There is no "production", this is all research, training exercises, and demonstrations.)

Thanks!

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Maybe if they have some kind of export format that you could script up a corresponding import routine for, but otherwise no. That kind of information is lost over DNP3.

If this is one of the RTAC units that has a built in OPC UA server then you could try that route. You would get the browsing and names you're probably used to seeing. I don't remember which models support OPC UA, though.

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Give your Ignition tags the name you expect. The "AnalogInput282" name only needs to live in the OPC Item Path.

Don't do this, pretend the legacy driver doesn't exist.

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