Developing Components

This guide will show you how to stand up the A* microgrid control architecture.

Launching Services

export ASTAR=$HOME/a-star # This is the root directory of the A* tools
cd $ASTAR
./a-mx \
    -rw a-hmi sim-model \
    -w sim-control \
    -r a-console a-npvt

Command line arguments:

• -rw READ/WRITE all of the components launched in RW will have control of the system variables as well as being able to read them.
• -w WRITE-ONLY all of the components launched in W will only be able to send control messages to a-mx.
• -r READ-ONLY all of the components launched in R will only be able to receive property change messages.

This will stand up the stream multiplexor and launch:

• a-hmi the HMI component. This is a web based component which has

Further reading

• Read about how-to guides in the Diátaxis framework