Back on 6/22 in this post I mused about adding a group parameter to the Device class and into the corresponding config file entry. At some point over the last week (actually it was 7/4 according to git) I made the configuration file changes to add the groups.

Tonight I added the group to the DEVICE network thread command, when sent from plcd. It now reads

DEVICE:&ltaddress&gt:&ltname&gt:&ltgroup&gt:&ltstate&gt:

And consumers of the device command can use the group parameter to gather similarly grouped devices together, or it can be ignored and present the devices as a single list.

The unix graphical client uses the group to build out a tree view of the devices, the web client generates separate tables of the devices.