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Installing SA Engine on Windows

SA Engine can be installed on Windows in two ways. Either through a guided installation process from within SA Studio or manually by downloading the SA Engine edge client to your Windows machine.

Install using SA Studio guide​

SA Studio contains an interactive guide for installing edge clients on some selected platforms. It will also guide you through how to start the SA Engine edge client and connect SA Engine to your SA Studio instance.

  1. Start SA Studio, either the cloud instance here: https://studio.streamanalyze.com. If you have an enterprise license you might also have access to SA Studio in your proprietary cloud or on you local machine (ask your system administrator for guidance).

  2. Go to the Devices tab.

  3. Select Get Started in the devices menu.

  4. Click the Windows icon.

  5. Follow the instructions.

SA Studio Connect Edge Guide

Install SA Engine manually​

SA Engine edge clients are available for download on the download page https://studio.streamanalyze.com/download. You must be signed in to access the download page.

  1. Go to https://studio.streamanalyze.com/download/#twindows.

  2. Download the file sa_engine_core_win_x64.zip.

  3. Extract the zip archive.

  4. The extracted folder has a sa.engine\bin directory. Add it to your PATH environment variable.

  5. Start SA Engine by opening a Windows CMD terminal and run sa.engine.exe.

note

The zip file has a copy button next to its name. Clicking the button will copy a curl command for downloading the file to the clipboard. This makes it convenient to download the file directly to the device by executing the curl command on the device.