Connectivity "Quick Start Guide"

To help OEM Equipment Firmware Developers start an integration with Open Kitchen, this article provides a list of necessary steps and information for the process.

The 6 Most Important Steps to Connecting to Open Kitchen

Below are the 6 most critical steps to starting an integration with Open Kitchen. While additional information can always be found on our ConnectWare Technical Documentation Hub, starting here can help the process go smoothly.

1. Understand the big picture of Connected Equipment in Open Kitchen Environment

Introduction information can be found at the followings:

https://powerhousedynamics.com/open-kitchen-overview/

https://powerhousedynamics.com/open-kitchen-connected-equipment/

2. Get tool access

   1. Request ConnectWare GIT repository access, which includes: ConnectWare Documentation and ConnectWare Client Library source code as well as examples for Controller integration

Send requests to connectware@powerhousedynamics.com for access to the ConnectWare public repo.

3. Study Open Kitchen ConnectWare Documentation

   1. Open Kitchen ConnectWare API User Guide Open Kitchen ConnectWare API User Guide

   2. A Quick Start for ConnectWare Library https://sitesage.atlassian.net/wiki/x/IQBCHQ

   3. Open Kitchen ConnectWare Serial Protocol Specification OpenKitchen ConnectWare Serial Protocol Specification

4. Study Open Kitchen Message Documentation

   1. Open Kitchen Message Specification Open Kitchen Message Specification

   2. Open Kitchen Data Dictionary Specification and Template Data Dictionary Specification

5. Port ConnectWare Library to Controller

   1. See Porting

6. Validate with PhD

   1. Work with PhD team to validate connectivity and Data Dictionary

FAQs

Reference Open Kitchen FAQs Frequently Asked Questions