{"id":3545,"date":"2025-04-18T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T11:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webprojects.cloud\/wordpress\/splatco\/?post_type=spl_knowledgebase&#038;p=3545"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:53:18","slug":"pidassist-saving-and-restoring-configurations","status":"publish","type":"spl_knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/webprojects.cloud\/wordpress\/splatco\/knowledgebase\/tutorials-application-notes-and-white-papers\/tutorial-pid-control-with-splat\/pid-control-using-pidassist\/pidassist-saving-and-restoring-configurations\/","title":{"rendered":"PIDassist: Saving and restoring configurations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can save your settings to a file. We call this a configuration file. Configuration files have the file name extension .pid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a default configuration file called, believe it or not, Default.pid. 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