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cambiegroup / flowchem

Flowchem is an application to simplify the control of instruments and devices commonly found in chemistry labs.
MIT License
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identifier needed to adress subdevices #111

Open JB-Wolf opened 11 months ago

JB-Wolf commented 11 months ago

Problem

when device decomposition happens, commands to the device assembly need to have an identifier to be sent to the correct device.

suggestion

since each subdevice needs a unique name anyway and this unique name is used in the config file (if I gather that correctly), the device name could also be used to generate the correct addressing information. calling subdevice.component_info.name gives the name, which can be fed to the command which needs to be issued to the correct device.

alternative

alternatively, additionally to name, a identifier can be introduced into hardware device and used, if existing, to modify commands