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Reading a cabinet

Each cabinet shows what a person would see on the real box, and nothing more.

What you see

• A picture of the cabinet.
• The nameplate, with the maker, the model and the serial number.
• A network light that flickers when the cabinet is being talked to.
• The sensors, shown as numbered terminals.
• A power switch.

What you do not see

Which cabinet is which on the network is deliberately hidden. On a real site, nothing on the outside of a box says which entry in the software it is. Working that out is the exercise. See Finding the right cabinet.

The network light

When Bhairava Sense is talking to a cabinet, its light flickers. That is how you can tell, by looking, which cabinet Bhairava Sense is talking to.

The terminals

Each sensor sits at a numbered terminal, as on a real cabinet. You touch or break a sensor from here. See Touching and breaking sensors.

The power switch

Switching a cabinet off makes it stop answering, as a real cabinet would when its power is lost.