AES70 C# is an off the shelf MIT Licensed OCA Controller library for programming in C#. The development library includes example programs, tests and inline documentation.
Full Controller Library
AES70 C# MIT Release contains a controller-side implementation of all classes defined in the 2018 version of the AES70 Standard. It is available under the MIT license on Github: libaes70.NET
Discovery, Control Classes & Properties
AES70 C# offers different APIs for accessing and manipulating remote OCA objects.
Object Discovery: An API to iterate over all objects inside a device and build an object tree representation of that device.
Application programmers can rely on this object tree representation (abstraction) for the client software object model. The abstraction takes care of the changes to object parameters, reflecting changes on remote devices in the corresponding object parameter local values, and vice versa.
Control Classes: The most basic API allows calling remote methods and subscribing to OCA events. In this API each class defined in the OCA standard has one corresponding class in the DeusO.AES70.Controller namespace.
Control Class Properties: This abstraction is built upon the basic Control Classes and represents all OCA properties of a remote object as properties. Setting a property in a properties object will attempt to set the value of that property remotely. The properties classes implement an INotify interface, which allows them to be used in UI applications. In addition to that, each property has a corresponding changed event.
Getting Started – Discovery
The C# library is a client-side implementation designed specifically for use as a controller. To integrate AES70 into devices, see AES70 C++.
It makes sense to discuss control needs early on, specifically how our device emulation tools can decouple dependencies on completed device implementations.
Hardware Emulation
DeusO offers device-emulation tools for generating OCA Devices in a dynamic way. The resulting emulation can run on a network service much like a real device. An example of a network of virtual devices is available on AES70x.net.
Tools & Utilities
Device emulation removes hardware dependencies, but often teams need to coordinate a development road map early. We created OCA Device examples to help embedded engineers and front end application designers fast track control protocol integration.
Read more about device evaluation.
Consulting & Adoption Support
DeusO provides AES70 development services, responding to needs like convenience APIs or design architecture advice. Find out more about consulting on Software Partner.
Support, Service & Maintenance
For ongoing support, we are happy to negotiate an agreement to suit engineers’ needs. We generally anticipate an initial handover package, which includes technical introductory meetings, suggestions on design strategy, and sharing of general technical knowledge and code examples. Subsequent support engagement is defined on a case by case basis.
Service and maintenance is separate to support. We provide a standard warranty in licensed software which includes general service and maintenance for active agreements. Service covers incorporation of updates to the AES70 Standard, optimizations or API improvements and possible new features. Maintenance is more focused on fixes, and addressing possible feature gaps discovered in a library.