The Platform Driver agent is a special purpose agent a user can install on the platform to manage communication of the platform with devices. The Platform driver features a number of endpoints for collecting data and sending control signals using the message bus and automatically publishes data to the bus on a specified interval.
- python >= 3.10
- volttron >= 10.0
- volttron-lib-base-driver
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.
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.
Install and start the volttron-platform-driver.
vctl install volttron-platform-driver --vip-identity platform.driver --startView the status of the installed agent
vctl statusPlease see the following for contributing guidelines contributing.
Please see the following helpful guide about developing modular VOLTTRON agents
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