Tutorial: Connect to a single channel of a room control host module

Basic architecture

The HDL Buspro plugin establishes a UDP connection to one or multiple HDL Buspro interfaces.

This connection is used to send packets between HDL Buspro devices and the NETx Server.

Integration steps

After installing the plugin, a new menu under the Modules menu will be added. This menu corresponds with the configuration of the HDL Plugin in the NETx Server.

General configuration

For a standard installation no changes are required to the general configuration's default values.

For more information see HDL configuration.

Adding a interface

Open Modules > HDL > Interface definitions and add an interface according to HDL interface configuration.

A simple interface definition could look like this:

Adding a channel

After configuring the interface we can add our first channel.

Open Modules > HDL > Channel definitions and add a channel according to HDL channel definitions.

A simple channel definition could look like this:

Testing the connection

After restarting the NETx Server, the item tree should contain our interface and channel.

When the value is changed in the Core Server Studio, the output of the room control host module should change.

When changing the value by pressing a HDL Buspro switch connected to the same channel, the server item's value should change accordingly.