Hey guys!
I have been around a long time (circa 2015), but I've basically been a lurker the entire time. I have recently started a business, and one of my major goals is to make migrating from FactoryTalk to Ignition super easy. I am building a set of tools to this end, and it starts with this:
It was inspired by the marketplace Logix L5K Parser: Ignition Exchange | Inductive Automation
Except I was getting errors with that when attempting to generate tags, and also it is locked into the gui framework of perspective.
My alternative is to generate external python tooling, taking advantage of the speed and testability of the python 3 ecosystem, while still being understandable by our community. I will be presenting more tools soon, as I have a large project coming up to do a large FTV migration, and hope to do more. Rockwell is incredible at level 1, but I am happy to encourage them to be more competitive in their layer 2+ solutions with some healthy competition!
Let me know what you guys think!!