Overview

MQTT HDL Buspro interface is able to connect to one or more MQTT brokers – the NETx Server has no built-in brokerHDL Buspro interfaces. For each brokerinterface, MQTT topic channels can be defined that are represented as Server Items. It is possible to publish data changes to these topic (writable Server Items). In addition it is possible to  subscribe to these topics for retrieving data changes (readable Server Items).The interface is available for free. Each defined MQTT data point

The costs of the extension are a fix fee. Each data point created by the interface is decreasing the available license data points by one.
For more information about the number of data points needed for each device see HDL channel definitions.

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Installation

The MQTT HDL Buspro interface is provided as an extension and is not included within the default setup.

To install the MQTT HDL Buspro interface, open the Core Studio and shutdown the Core Server. Afterwards, start the Extension Manager via the menu Extensions > Manager > Start Extension Manager ....

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Within the dialog, select "MQTT HDL" and press the Install button. After having installed the MQTT HDL interface, close the BMS Core studio and reopen it. Within the Modules menu of the Core Studio you will find a new sub menu HDL within the menu MQTTModules. It contains entries for all definitions that are necessary for the configuration of the MQTT HDL interface.

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Configuration

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• HDL configuration

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• HDL interface configuration
• HDL channel definitions

Interface is available for the following products: 

• NETx BMS Platform
• NETx Multi Protocol Server
• NETx BMS Server 2.0

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