Re: [Bacnet-developers] Newer to BACnet stack

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Hi Weiping,

The purpose of the server app is to allow you to see a working bacnet device using just a 
PC(s). This is the simplest way to expirement with BACnet and the stack as there is no 
special equipment required.

Usually a BACnet server type device would be an ambedded device which performs some 
specific purpose (temperature sensor, actuator, hvac controller, datalogger etc) which 
provides an interface to the outside world via BACnet. 

More sophisticated embedded devices would also implement some client type functionality to 
allow them share data with other devices autonomously. There are some examples of ports 
of the stack to various embedded systems in the ports directory.

If you want to try the BACnet stack on a non PC device you would need to either get one or 
more of the devices mentioned in the ports or port the stack to some other hardware 
platform. 

I have a port of the stack to the Rabbit BL4S100 single board computer working using 
BACnet/IP under the Dynamic C language which provides another way to expirement with 
the BACnet stack.

Regards,
Peter

On 26 Feb 2010 at 16:50, wps2 wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Sorry for these basic and simple questions:
> I run the demo server on one PC and it seems work fine. But I still do 
> not understand the role for server? Does it forward messages from client 
> to physical devices? Why the client demos could not communicate  with 
> special physical devices?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Weiping
> 
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