Manage Drivers on Edge Gateway

This topic describes how to download and manage drivers for Tuya Edge Gateway (TEdge). A Modbus driver is used in the following example.

Prerequisites

The edge gateway is installed and activated. For more information, see Deploy and Activate Tuya Edge Gateway.

Download a driver

Download a Modbus driver

Download the official driver and package the files for installation (x86/Armv7).

Note:

• The earlier files are overwritten after you run the Docker save command.
• The files must be in the .tar format when they are saved with the Docker save command.

1. Download an image.

    docker pull tuya/tedge-modbus-driver:latest
   

2. Package the image.

   docker save tuya/tedge-modbus-driver:latest > \
   /var/tedge/edgex-driver-data/upload/library/tedge-modbus-driver.tar
   

Add a driver library

This section describes how to add a Modbus driver.

1. Log in to Tuya Edge Gateway. In the left-side navigation, choose Driver Settings > Driver Libraries and click Create. In the dialog box that appears, select the required driver file from the Driver File drop-down list.

2. Download the Modbus configuration template and upload the configuration file. You do not need to modify the template in this example.

   

Add a driver instance

This section describes how to add a Modbus driver instance.

1. In the left-side navigation, choose Driver Settings > Driver Instances and click Create. In the dialog box that appears, search the driver library by name. Fuzzy matching is supported. Create a driver instance.

   

2. On the list of driver instances, click Stopped next to the newly created driver instance to run the driver.