Bacnet client and supported services under Zephyr

[philippejohnrichard]

Hi Steve, thank you for sharing this bacnet-stack-zephyr
I used your main bacnet-stack library for a while and I just decided to start a new project under Zephyr.

I was able to test the Samples B-SA to launch a Bacnet Server in no time.
However, I was not yet able to modify the main application to initiate request.

I was wondering if it was possible to add a more "client based" approche in the Samples folder.
Allowing us to initiate request like you do with the other stack : /apps/readprop (./bacrp 123 1 101 85)

Also, it would be good to know what feature of the bacnet-stack supported in the bacnet-stack are. I see that many object are listed in the bacnet-stack-zephyr/zephyr/subsystem/object folder, but there seems to be missing object compared to the main bacnet-stack. Are you planing to add more object in the near future, if so wich ones? And is this folder the official place to look for supported items?

And, I would like to know if all services are working as well. Should i refer to this : zephyr/tests/bacnet to know what service is supported ? I don't quite understand how to run the test with this lib. Is it unittest.sh ? If possilble, it think it would be good to add a README.md in the test folder to make the test easier to set-up.

Thank you for the information

[skarg]

Thanks for testing the samples - they were designed around some of the BIBBs (BACnet Interoperability Building Blocks) and profiles. Zephyr OS is targeted to embedded devices and so will not have a 'client' based apps in samples. However, we could easily add BACnet ReadProperty and WriteProperty services along with other client requests in the Zephyr Shell which could be accessed via RTT or serial port and a terminal application like picocom or minicom etc.