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VOLTTRON is an open source agent development and deployment platform designed to enable researchers to interact with devices and appliances without having to write drivers themselves

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The main features of the VOLTTRON platform are:

  • Open, flexible and modular software platform
  • Ease of application development
  • Interoperable across vendors and applications
  • Isolates power and control system complexities from developers
  • Object oriented, modern software development environment
  • Language agnostic. Does not tie the applications to a specific language such as Java
  • Broad device and control systems protocols support built-in ModBUS, BACNet, and others
  • Multiple types of controllers and sensors
  • Low memory and storage footprint requirements
  • Supports non-Intel CPUs

GitHub link: https://github.com/VOLTTRON/volttron

Latest documentation can be found: http://volttron.readthedocs.io/en/develop/

Some questions that can be asked are about specific agents (e.g. volttron central, master driver, etc.), the VOLTTRON framework itself, where the project should focus it's future development and any other related work.

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VOLTTRON RPC call to agent from outside VOLTTRON

Can you call an RPC endpoint from outside VOLTTRON? If so what all entails the authentication to call a VOLTTRON agent RPC endpoint? For example I created an agent with the agent creation wizard that includes an RPC endpoint method like this when…
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volttron BACnet grab_multiple_configs.py

I am trying to auto discover BACnet devices in VOLTTRON on a LAN with grab multiple configs. This message below is from the linux terminal when I am trying run proxy_grab_bacnet_config.py where my args or something is incorrect: usage:…
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TypeError: PythonShell is not a constructor

I am experimenting with a node red - VOLTTRON (Python framework) integration where I am hoping to view the VOLTTRON message bus in Node Red. When I do the appropriate steps as defined in the README like copying the files over to the correct…
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VOLTTRON driver development module not found

On VOLTTRON 7.0.x I created a simple driver to interact with a rest XML API to get some data, but when I reinstall the master driver agent to make use of my new driver I get a ModuleNotFoundError Full trace back: 2021-12-09 17:37:09,505…
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VOLTTRON reinstall master driver agent on 7.0

On VOLTTRON 8.0 versions that use platform.driver I can reinstall the platform.driver with: python scripts/install-agent.py -s services/core/PlatformDriverAgent -c services/core/PlatformDriverAgent/config -f --start --enable But on VOLTTRON 7.0…
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VOLTTRON publish agent data to message bus

I made an agent with the creation wizard. How can I publish data from this agent to the message bus? Ultimately I am hoping to use this agent to calculate some "events" similar to the air_cx_agent and use the forward agent to send it onto the…
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How to see BACnet scrape data on volttron.log

Can someone give me a tip on how see the BACnet scrape data on the VOLTTRON .log? Would this have anything to do with the log level? Maybe I just cant see any data because of incorrect log levels? Any tips setting the log level appropriate greatly…
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VOLTTRON Simple Web agent

On release 8.1.1 I am trying to experiment with the simple web agent. Running through the setup process volttron -vv -l volttron.log --bind-web-address http://0.0.0.0:8080 & Everything seem to install OK for http protrocol on the vcfg and starting…
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schedule actuator agent MALFORMED_REQUEST

Can someone give me a tip what I am doing wrong with scheduling the actuator agent in my agent code to scrape some BACnet data? _now = get_aware_utc_now() str_start = format_timestamp(_now) _end = _now + td(seconds=10) str_end =…
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VOLTTRON Central behind a firewall

If there is a VOLTTRON central deployment on ZMQ, would I need to have network ports on a firewall opened up if the actual VOLTTRON central instance is behind a firewall? Basically I am looking at deploying an edge device in a building to collect…
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Error Importing Pandas in Volttron Platform

I have created a Volttron agent and trying to use pandas library. But I am getting error of pandas not being installed, while its there. ERROR:volttron.platform.packaging:b'Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "setup.py", line 11, in…
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volttron BACnet discovery not all points coming through

I am trying to scrape a BACnet device where I noticed not all of the points are being captured on scripts/bacnet/grab_bacnet_config.py In the screenshot below of the BACnet scanner tool these are the BO's that dont come through: Any ideas to…
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Can we send Files via message bus to another agent

I am trying to send a file from a Volttron Agent to an Agent running outside volttron(StandAlone). So far I am able to connect the Volttron Agent to Standalone agent. but Is it possible to send a file. ( A simulation model file) via the message bus…
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VOLTTRON listen to another agent on message bus

I have an control agent that is listening on the message bus to the BACnet proxy/actuator publish of all of the devices/campus/building/somedevice/all scraping of all of the BACnet data. Code looks like this below, where I can just filter for zone…
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volttron host a web page for dashboard

In the VOLTTRON readthedocs for the Simple Web Agent Walk-through, is it possible to run a web agent on a stand alone VOLTTRON deployment? Or does a web agent need to be connected to a central Volttron instance? Can a VOLTTRON edge device connected…
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