There are three main ways you can install ARDI addons or drivers - the addon, the command-line tool and the manual method.

NOTE: Internet connection required

The ARDI Extension Manager addon allows you to directly install new drivers and addons from the ARDI website.

Once installed, enable any addons from Administration|Addons, or add new drivers from Administration|Drivers.

For security reasons, this addon is often disabled on production systems.

You can use Command Prompt (Windows) or your terminal (Linux) to install new extensions such as drivers and addons.

NOTE: Internet connection required

ardimod <package code>

c:\python314\python c:\ARDI\drivers\ardimod.py <package code>

This downloads the extension from the ARDI servers and installs it into the appropriate location on your system.

It will also install any required Python libraries that need to be installed with the addon.

To install an addon or driver manually, follow the steps below…

1) Log in to your ARDI system and download/copy the ZIP file with the downloaded ARDI addon or driver.

2) Copy the contents of the ZIP file to your ARDI install directory (ie. C:\ARDI\ or /opt/ardi).

3) Install any required libraries/tools (ie. Python scripts) needed by the driver or addon. These will be listed on the download page. In some cases, these libraries might also be present in the ZIP file.

To install the library opcua on Windows, open a Command Prompt window and type…

c:\python310\scripts\pip install opcua

To install the library opcua on Linux, open a terminal and type…

pip3 install opcua

4) Enable any new addons from Administration|Addons or add new drivers from Administration|Drivers.