How to Add a New Driver

This guide explains the process on how to add a new driver on to the platform.

Requirements:

·         New Driver in JSON format.

·         Access to the platform with rights to add new drivers.

Instructions:

1. Login on the platform

2. Go to Devices → IQnexus Market → New Driver

3. Click on </>JSON and clear the input box field.

4. Copy and paste the new driver’s JSON into this field and click on ‘Save’

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5. The new driver has now been added to the platform.

How to update a Driver

This how-to explains the process on how to update a driver on the platform.

Requirements

1. New driver in json format

2. Access to the platform with rights to add new drivers

Instructions

1. Login on the platform

2. Go to ‘Developers’ → ‘Drivers’

3. Find you driver and press edit.

   1. If there are devices that use this driver, it will ask you if you want to clone the driver

4. Select ‘Clone’ in that case

5. Select ‘JSON’

   1. The input box shown is the entire driver in JSON format

6. Copy the json from the new driver into this field and press ‘Save’

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7. The driver has now been updated.

Update a device

To update a device to utilize the new driver, to the following:

1. Go to ‘Devices’ → ‘Devices’

2. Find your device and from the action menu select ‘Edit Device’

3. Press the ‘Change driver’ button

4. Find your driver with updated version number and select ‘select’

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