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Overview

The goal is to allow Mother to be able to monitor and control Arduino boards and devices. The solution consist of a sketch that can be loaded onto any arduino and allow all pins to be updated to the mother system.

Method of Integration

Integration of arduino boards consist of the following scripts:

• Mother script to open the corresponding com port and monitor for serial data
• Mother script triggered by incoming data on monitored com port to parse data and set devices as needed
• Arduino sketch that updates device values as they change and that allows the Arduino to receive device control commands from Mother

Protocols

Definitions

• MT = Message Type
  • DVU = Device Value Update Message
• SmDl = Small Delimiter
• BgDl = Big Delimiter
• HS = Handsake
  • WA = Wants Ack
  • Ack = Confirm Received
• FT = Future Use
• DC = Device Code
• DV = Device Value

Example: Device Value Update String

"	MT	SmDl	HS	BgDl	FT1	SmDl	FT2	BgDl	DC1	SmDl	DV1	BgDl	DC2	SmDl	DV2	"
	DVU	:	WA	|	x	:	x	|	D1	:	1	|	D2	:	0