development-support

Onboarding Tool Generic Client (OTGC)

This Application is an onboarding tool (OBT) and a generic OCF Client. Hence it can interact with OCF servers without any coding.

Install OTGC on Ubuntu

no precompiled package support

See compile and installation steps are available here

Install OTGC on Android

Only available for Android 5.0.1 or later.

Make sure that the android device has the “Unknown sources” installation option enabled e.g. this enables that apks can be installed that are not in google play. How to do this varies per Android version and vendor, please look at the vendor site or google on “Unknown sources”.

Download URL:

https://openconnectivityfoundation.github.io/development-support/otgc/android/otgc-debug.apk

Most of the time after the download the installation starts automatically. If the installation is not automatically started then:

Further installation instructions can be found here

Typical usage of OTGC

Steps to Transfer Ownership a OCF Server.

  1. Start the application This will list all devices on the network. If no devices are found on the network, then do a manual search (see manual).
  2. Transfer Ownership Click on the + sign of the not yet onboarded device. OTGC will use an appropriate onboarding mechanism to transfer the ownership to this OTGC.
  3. Name the OCF device Enter a new appropriate name for the OCF server.

More details can be found in the OTGC user manual.

Steps to interact with an Onboarded OCF Server

  1. Start the application
    This will list all devices on the network.

  2. Select a OCF server to interact with by clicking the wheel on the OCF Server. This will cause that the OCF server is selected to interact with. It also will show the Resource screen. This screen list the implemented resources that belongs to the device type.
  3. Resource screen This screen list all resources. Interacting with the properties of each Resource can be done by: listing all properties by clicking the (v) symbol and use the entry mechanism per property.

More details can be found in the OTGC user manual.

OTGC User Manual

The user manual can be found here

Note:

They can be also accessed through the UI.