incendium 2026.6.0

Package that extends and wraps the Ignition Scripting API

incendium

Package that extends and wraps the Ignition Scripting API.

For more information, please refer to the Wiki.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• You are familiar with Ignition 8.3 System Functions
• You have installed Python 2.7.18
• You have installed Java 17 and Jython 2.7.3

Installation and usage

Installing incendium on your Gateway

[!TIP] You may use the Python in Ignition guide as reference.

As a Jython package

To install incendium as a Jython package on your Gateway, follow these steps:

1. Install Java 17
2. Install Jython 2.7.3
3. Run jython -m pip install incendium
4. Copy the incendium directory and typing.py from $JYTHON_HOME/Lib/site-packages to $IGNITION_DIR/user-lib/pylib/site-packages
5. Done

As a Python package

To install incendium as a Python package on your Gateway, follow these steps:

1. Install Python 2.7.18
2. Run python -m pip install incendium
3. Copy the incendium directory and typing.py from $PYTHON2_HOME/Lib/site-packages to $IGNITION_DIR/user-lib/pylib/site-packages
4. Done

Installing as a dependency for your scripting projects

To use incendium, you may install it with pip. It requires Python 2.7.18 or Jython 2.7.3.

python2 -m pip install incendium

Or

jython -m pip install incendium

This will install it as a package in your Python installation, which will allow you to call incendium's Scripting functions from Python's REPL, and get code completion using an IDE (PyCharm or Visual Studio Code).

And to uninstall:

python2 -m pip uninstall incendium

Or

jython -m pip uninstall incendium

Using as a dependency in PyCharm

To include incendium as a dependency in PyCharm, you will need to attach it to your project.

1. Clone the repo or download from releases
2. With your project open where you want to include incendium, navigate to File > Open and select the incendium project folder
3. Choose Attach when prompted
4. Under the incendium project folder, right-click on the src/ folder and choose Mark Directory as > Sources Root

Contributing to incendium

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Discussions

Feel free to post your questions and/or ideas at Discussions.

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project.

Up-to-date list of contributors.

License

See LICENSE.

Code of conduct

See CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.