Hello,
I'm doing the course and use the Ignition Maker version.
Is this Maker version still installable on the RPI?
If so, specific requirements or suggestions regarding type of RPI and specs?
Anyone here with good experience?
Best regards,
Peter
Make sure that you get one with at least 4 GB of RAM (though you can go smaller if needed, just be ready to tune the memory settings down pretty heavily and make sure to run in headless mode, no GUI). Nowadays there is decent support for 64-bit OS, you could go with Raspberry Pi OS and even Ubuntu (both are options from the Raspberry Pi Imaging Tool). Then couple that with the aarch64 Ignition zip installer:
wget --referer https://inductiveautomation.com/\* \
https://files.inductiveautomation.com/release/ia/8.1.40/20240514-1107/Ignition-linux-aarch-64-8.1.40.zip
... and you're good to go after making a directory for it and then unzipping into there and going through the README (you can also install Docker on your Pi and use that instead).
FWIW, I've been installing Ubuntu on my Pi's lately and they've been working swimmingly. You can pair the latest Pi 5 with some NVMe storage too for a pretty capable little machine!
Thanks for the suggestions, very usable!
Hi Kevin,
Just made a post asking for a working manual for running Ignition Edge on RPI5. Have you any experience with this - it seems to lack the possibility to run a vision client locally. BR Adam
Maker cannot run Vision clients at all. Vision is not allowed in Maker.
I just started my own maker edition server at home on a Raspberry Pi this weekend!
Im using the AARCH64 Linux version on a very old Raspberry Pi 3B+ and so far it’s been good for me. I know others have recommended 4GB+ of Ram but I’ve been able to get away with 1GB fine. Using the latest version of RaspianOS Lite, I just dropped the install files over SFTP and installed Ignition like you would on any other Linux distro.
Currently only using MQTT and the Cirrus Link modules to talk to a bunch of other Pi Zeros scattered around my house, so I don’t have too much data throughput at the moment, but I haven’t had any issues on the client or development side. Only doing minor home automation stuff, scheduling my coffee pot, turning on air filters, monitoring temp, etc.
I did this with a Pi3 because I had it lying around already, but if you’re making a purchase you’d probably want the Pi 4 or 5 with 4GB. From my few days of experience running Ignition on a Pi, I would have no doubts that any of the newer Pi’s should be able to run Maker Edition just fine.