# Using Ignition with OSI PI

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-ignition-with-osi-pi/15451>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 22, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-ignition-with-osi-pi/15451 "2017-09-22T21:19:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![tsells](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tsells](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/tsells)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-ignition-with-osi-pi/15451/1 "2017-09-22T21:19:20Z")

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What is the simplest way to connect to an OSI PI server and get the data from it? Looking to use the PI Historian data for Reporting within Ignition.

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**Author:** ![Curlyandshemp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@Curlyandshemp](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Curlyandshemp)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-ignition-with-osi-pi/15451/2 "2017-09-23T02:19:22Z")

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I am involved with a PI project at the moment.  
If you just want historical time series data from PI, you need the Ignition OPC-DA module .

If you want to query data from PI, you need to create a custom JDBC driver in Ignition and have PI side modules installed to create virtual data tables that can be queried