Also, I'm not party to these actual discussions internally but my personal opinion is that people absolutely will (and likely already are) abusing Maker licenses. But, honestly, the venn diagram of folks who would do that and folks who would ever pay for a license has very little overlap. So I don't think there's a ton of incentive to cover the use case of true personal users trying to stand up more than three gateways.
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I’ll add my perspective here.
I’m a big fan of Ignition — I’m using it at work across multiple plants and still expanding. That’s actually why I started using Maker Edition at home for a smart home setup.
But honestly, the “personal use only” popup is kind of killing it for me.
In a home setup it makes it feel more like a demo than something you actually want to run long term.
Would be great if there was a less intrusive way to handle it (even just not a popup)
I also get it if you don’t really want to go after the smart home / personal space — totally fair — the current approach makes it a bit hard to justify using it there.
maybe you can use something like triggercmd or any software plays a macro.
The bug I mentioned is fixed in 8.3.5, due out around the end of the month.
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