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.

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.