# Potential use cases for Ignition Maker at home - has anyone tried these? **URL:** \ **Category:** Maker\ **Created:** [March 26, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676 "2022-03-26T16:42:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msteele](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/msteele/32/77889_2.png) [@msteele](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/msteele)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/1 "2022-03-26T16:42:33Z")
I'm considering a variety of use cases within Ignition, though I'm also too busy to tinker much these days. If anyone has had similar success, it would encourage me to try these native in Ignition rather than getting a traditional smart home device. - Sprinkler system control - Thermostat / forced air / hydronic heat controls - Air quality management / air exchanger / humidifier / forced air fan cycling What other ideas have people tried for home automation in Ignition Maker? ---
**Author:** ![deon.korb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@deon.korb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/deon.korb)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/2 "2022-03-27T08:48:01Z")
Ignition Maker is very good. Its major advantage to me is the competency you build at work makes implementing something in Maker dead easy at home. Its reliance on an active internet connection is major drawback to me. I’ve been migrating all my logic into Node Red and using Ignition purely as a UI. I don’t want to have cold water in the morning because my ISP’s billing department messed up my account. Whatever you do in Maker, bear that limitation in mind. ---
**Author:** ![jspecht](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jspecht/32/6465_2.png) [@jspecht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jspecht)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/3 "2022-03-28T18:32:13Z")
I have successfully built a sprinkler control system using Ignition Maker Edition running on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. [I wrote a module](https://github.com/joelspecht/pi4ign) which exposes the Raspberry Pi as an OPC device using the Pi4Jv2 library so that I can read and write to the Pi’s GPIO pins using OPC tags in Ignition. This has been driving one of my sprinkler zones at home for the past year with no hiccups, and I’ve been meaning to dust off the module and the project and roll it out to the rest of the sprinkler zones now that I have proved it out. Be warned that the module is pretty experimental, so if you decide to use it or build off of it, use it at your own risk 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/4 "2022-03-28T18:50:39Z")
My personal project if I ever have the free time to do is is a home garden system with automatic watering schedules, or more advanced, watering based on soil readings. So cool you were able to do this with a sprinkler system - makes me think my thing is feasible! ---
**Author:** ![jspecht](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jspecht/32/6465_2.png) [@jspecht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jspecht)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/5 "2022-03-28T18:56:26Z")
Yeah that is something I’d love to do as well! It’s definitely feasible. ---
**Author:** ![matthew.ayre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matthew.ayre/32/19499_2.png) [@matthew.ayre](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/matthew.ayre)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/6 "2022-03-29T15:50:49Z")
I would echo what @deon.korb has said. Although, I probably rely on it a lot more as our ISP has been pretty reliable, and the 4 hour lease time (I think it’s still 4 hours?) is more than enough for any short outages. I have been considering taking the leap to Node Red or HA though and use Maker for the pretty stuff 🤔 > **A few things we use it for in our household...** > > 1. Electronic configurable dashboard > 2. URL Casting between Ignition Clients > 3. Asset tag tracking > 4. Logging fuel usage > 5. Temperature & humidity tracking > 6. Light control > 7. Garage Door control > 8. Finances We mainly use the Perspective app via mobile, but I do have a nice floorplan layout for the house lights 🙂 Current project is to create some nice charts for the fuel logging, and to start logging power consumption/generation. Oh, and experimenting with RTSP feed cameras with the very helpful module: [Automation Professionals' Image Streamer Driver Module - #62 by pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automation-professionals-image-streamer-driver-module/29371/62) More than happy to share what I have, if it isn’t already public on the Exchange. ---
**Author:** ![cosergiy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@cosergiy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cosergiy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/7 "2025-03-18T19:13:46Z")
Were you able to use the same pi to act as both Ignition Server and an OPC device? Or did you have to use two separate PI's? ---
**Author:** ![jspecht](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jspecht/32/6465_2.png) [@jspecht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jspecht)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/8 "2025-03-18T19:34:46Z")
Same Pi for both. ---
**Author:** ![colten.davis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@colten.davis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/colten.davis)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/9 "2025-04-07T13:10:02Z")
Where can I get that module? Sounds awesome. ---
**Author:** ![jspecht](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jspecht/32/6465_2.png) [@jspecht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jspecht)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/10 "2025-04-07T15:20:04Z")
[You can find it here](https://github.com/joelspecht/pi4ign). I haven't contributed to it in 4 years but theoretically it should still work in 8.1. ---
**Author:** ![cosergiy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@cosergiy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/cosergiy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/11 "2026-02-07T16:37:43Z")
Haven’t visited this thread in a while. Would this work for 8.3.3? I have a new pi 5 and wanted to finally try this out as I finally have a use case for it ( a little late I know) ---
**Author:** ![jspecht](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jspecht/32/6465_2.png) [@jspecht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jspecht)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/potential-use-cases-for-ignition-maker-at-home-has-anyone-tried-these/57676/12 "2026-02-09T20:17:49Z")
Nope - an 8.3 version of the module would have to be written against the 8.3 API changes.