SmartConnect Getting Started

SmartConnect is available with SmartServer 4.2 and higher. 

With SmartConnect, you can create a SmartServer on a Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4) hardware. SmartConnect is a collection of software containers that you can run on ARM Linux platforms that are compatible with a Raspberry Pi 4, including any platform with a Raspberry Pi CM4 and Raspberry Pi OS. SmartConnect is compatible with Raspberry Pi Debian version 12 (bookworm). Platform requirements and installation instructions are provided in the section Install SmartConnect. 

You can set the processes running in the SmartConnect containers to share the same network as the rest of your Pi, but isolate the SmartServer containers in the process name space. With this setup, each process has the impression that it is the only process running on the system.

For SmartConnect, the basic SmartServer functionality is provided by the SmartServer Core license. The Core license supports BACnet, EnOcean, LON, LoRaWAN, and Modbus TCP and RTU device interfaces, device discovery, device import, and device creation. This license does not expire. See Manage Licenses for more information. LON is supported with SmartConnect 4.3 and higher, with the exception of LON PL.

This section describes how to get started with SmartConnect and consists of the following:

Once you have completed the steps in SmartConnect Getting Started, continue with SmartServer Getting Started.