DeviceExt

Summary

The DeviceExt acts as middleman which will send messages from various extensions to the remote Service and dispatch messages received from the Service to its descendant extensions.

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Implementation

• First you must setup a RealTimeConnector.

• Drag and drop the component from the palette to any Component. As its name suggests, you can add it inside a Device, but you can also add it to a Node, a Folder etc.

• Select a connector.

Properties

• Status: Status of the DeviceExt. 

• FaultCause: Message that complements the DeviceExt state (generally used to explain the reason for an initialization failure).

• Enabled: Indicates whether the Extension is enabled or not.

• Connector: The Connector to bind to.

Actions

• Initialize: Register the device and initialize the connection with the Service.

• Disable: Disable the extension.

• Clean: Unregister the device and clean the connection resources.

Fault Causes

• Connector Not Found:  if there is no connector in the Btib Service > External Connectors > realtime Connector folder, try to add one.

• Any other:  Just clean and initialize.