volttron-bacnet-proxy 2.0.0rc0

BACnet Proxy is an agent that supports communication and management of BACnet devices.

BACnet Proxy Agent

BACnet Proxy is an agent that supports communication and management of BACnet devices.

Communication with a BACnet device on a network happens via a single virtual BACnet device. In the VOLTTRON driver framework, we use a separate agent specifically for communicating with BACnet devices and managing the virtual BACnet device.

Requires

• python >= 3.10
• volttron-core >= 2.0.0rc0
• bacpypes == 0.16.7

Documentation

More detailed documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs. The RST source of the documentation for this component is located in the "docs" directory of this repository.

Installation

Before installing, VOLTTRON should be installed and running. Its virtual environment should be active. Information on how to install of the VOLTTRON platform can be found here.

Create a configuration file for the BACnet Proxy Agent.

{
    "device_address": "10.0.0.101",
    "max_apdu_length": 1024,
    "object_id": 599,
    "object_name": "Volttron BACnet driver",
    "vendor_id": 5,
    "segmentation_supported": "segmentedBoth"
}

ℹ️ TIP: The device_address field should contain the address bound to the network port over which BACnet communication will happen on the computer running VOLTTRON. This is NOT the address of any target device. See BACnet Router Addressing.

Install the BACnet Proxy Agent.

vctl install volttron-bacnet-proxy --agent-config <path to bacnet proxy config file> \
--vip-identity platform.bacnet_proxy

View the status of the installed agent

vctl status

Development

Please see the following for contributing guidelines contributing.

Please see the following helpful guide about developing modular VOLTTRON agents

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