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The events are centrally collected by the Salto server software. This software package provides an interface called Salto Event Stream. This interface provides the opportunity to send events via push notification to third-party software. This means that the Salto software (TCP client) which sends TCP/IP packets to our NETx BMS Core Server (TCP server). The Salto Event Stream interface provides two event message formats - CSV or JSON based. The NETx BMS Core Server uses the JSON based variant.

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The driver is implement as a plugin for the NETx BMS Core Server. Therefore, it has to be installed via the Extension Manager. To do so, stop the NETx BMS Core Server server and open the Extension Manager from "Extensions" tab. Select the "Salto" interface and press install as shown in the following screenshot:

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After having installed the interface, restart the NETx BMS Core ServerServer.

Integration steps

First, the Salto Event Stream has to be configured. Open the Salto Software "RW Pro-Access For Service" and create a new Event Stream within the menu "Tools". In the second step of the wizard, give the event stream a name, select TCP/IP, enter the IP where the NETx BMS Core Server is running, select a communication port (e.g. 6001), select "JSON" as event message format and "ANSI" as encoding. The following screenshot shows an example.

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In the next step, select the information that shall be retrieved by the NETx BMS Core Server. If you want to retrieve all available information, select all fields. In the next step, the users, doors, operation, and the time can be limited. After having created a new event stream, the Salto service has to be restarted.

As next, open the BMS Studiostudio. First, configure the communication port. This can be done by selecting "Driver Configuration" within the menu "Modules" -> "Salto".

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