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Has anyone effectively used a single Edge Microserver as a proxy of sorts between an unknown number of devices an the ThingWorx server?
In our application, we'll be deploying lots of devices, and some devices from different manufacturers. We cannot put an EMS on each device due to HW/SW limitations. Different manufacturers will have different protocols that have to be translated.
We are looking at the option of either writing a translation extension for the various manufacturers or checking to see if the single EMS, multiple devices is a more suitable route.
Thoughts?
Sounds like this situation is mentioned under EMSGateway but there isn't much information that I can find about it. Only this one sentence:
Hi Cooper,
There is additional information in section 10 of the Wiki, specifically "10.01.01 WS EMS Gateway Mode with Self-Registering Remote Things." You may also want to look into using the Edge SDKs as they may be a better fit for your particular use case.
Regards,
Adam
Thank you for directing to that location. As far as I can tell, using the auto_bind config parameter, does each device have to be individually configured within the EMS?
Cooper,
We recently added another section, "10.00 Differences between 4.x Edge Software Components and 5.0 Edge Software Components", which provides some more information about the Edge MicroServer. In that entry, there is a section that describes the dynamic registration of
Things
and the section, "10.01.01 WS EMS Example Configurations," provides an example configuration file for self-registeringRemote Things
.Regards,
Adam