Outstation Class

The Outstation class corresponds to an asynchronous task that implements the outstation state machine and responds to requests from a single master. In addition, it provides transactional access to the Database for configuring and modifying the values sent to the master. We'll cover database interaction in the next section.

In addition to accessing the Database, this class lets you modify the DecodeLevel of the running outstation. This can be extremely useful in production environments for debugging communications between a master and the outstation.

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The Outstation class has the same interface regardless of which transport-specific method you used to create it. This allows you to treat an Outstation operating over TCP or serial identically.