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Connecting devices

How to connect devices

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Written by Ashok P

Once you have the required products in the quote's Design view, you can connect them according to the project's design.

Go to the "Drawings" tab in the quote. By default, you can see a connection diagram. Double-click the diagram to go to its Edit view.

By default, devices appear in a vertical layout. You can change this to a radial or horizontal layout if needed. You can also group and filter them by system, location, phase, and category.

Check out this article for more details.

On the connection diagram

You can either create one connection between two devices or multiple connections between two devices in one go.

One connection

You can do one of the following to create a connection between two devices:

  • Click the source device, then click the destination device. In the New connection added modal in the lower left corner, click "Refresh."

  • Click the source device, hold the CTRL key, and click the destination device.

Cloud displays a connection line between the devices and assigns a connection ID to that line.

Click this line to open the Connection ID panel, where you specify the connection details: I/Os of the connected devices, the connection type, the direction, and the wire for the connection.

Multiple connections

If you want to add multiple independent connections between two devices in one go:

1/ Click on the first device.

2/ Click on the second device.

3/ In the New connection added modal in the lower left corner, click "Refresh."

4/ Repeat steps 1 to 3 as many times as the connections you need.

Once done, you can see multiple connection lines between the devices. You can specify the connection details in one of the device's side panels.

In its side panel

1/ Click on the source device to see its side panel.

2/ Click the "Connections" section to see the Connections panel.

3/ Click "Connect items."

4/ In the modal, click "Select" next to the device you want to connect to this device.

5/ Click "Done."

Cloud displays a connection line between the devices and assigns it a connection ID.

In this example, we connected a Wi-Fi router to a surveillance camera.

In the modal, you can connect a device to multiple devices.

Cloud displays multiple connection lines between devices and assigns each line a unique connection ID.

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