Getting Started

SignalStream Studio Documentation

SignalStream Studio is a no-code industrial dashboard builder. It reads live values from PLCs, industrial protocols, databases, and APIs on your factory floor, and lets you build a drag-and-drop dashboard that shows them in real time — no code required.

How it fits together

Studio is a single executable you run on a PC on your plant network — no installer, no separate service. It stays running in the background (tray icon), polls your configured data sources, and hosts the dashboard editor you open in your browser at localhost:8500. See Installing & Running Studio.

Everything you build — your data source connections and your dashboard layout — is tied to your SignalStream account and synced to the cloud, so it survives reinstalls and follows you if you move Studio to a new PC (see Plans & Device Licensing).

Depending on your plan, you can also view your published dashboard remotely from any browser at dashboard.signalstreamstudio.com, without Studio running locally on the viewing machine — see Remote Web Dashboard.

Where to start

• Installing & Running Studio — getting the exe running on a PC, starting it with Windows, and unattended 24/7 setups.
• Login & Accounts — how email + one-time-code sign-in works, and what happens the first time you log in.
• Plans & Device Licensing — what each plan includes, and how the one-Studio-install-per-account device license works.
• Dashboard & Canvas Editor — how the drag-and-drop editor works: adding widgets, binding them to data, and publishing.
• Widget Reference — every widget type you can drop onto a dashboard, and what it's for.
• Data Inputs & Connectors — every source type Studio can poll (Modbus, OPC UA, S7, EtherNet/IP, MQTT, NI-DAQmx, Mitsubishi/SLMP, SQL, REST), and the fields each one asks for.
• Remote Web Dashboard — viewing your published dashboard live from any browser, without Studio running locally.