Device
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The device object is a mapping of vectorname:vectorobject, so to access a vector you could use device['vectorname'].

As well as the methods documented below, dict methods are available such as get() and iteration through keys(), values() and items().

Similarly a Vector object is a mapping to a member value, so to access a value you could use device['vectorname']['membername'], which for example, given a SwitchVector would be either "On" or "Off".

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.. autoclass:: indipydriver.Device
   :members:


The device has attributes:

**devicename**

The given name of the device, this device object can be accessed from the driver as driver[devicename]

**enable**

Automatically set to False if the device is deleted by calling the device send_delProperty() method. The attribute should be set to True to re-enable the device, also for every property of the device, you will need to call the vector send_defVector() method to inform the client that the device and its properties are now available.

**devicedata**

Set from the device constructer as optional keyword arguments, can be used to pass in hardware data to the device object.

**stop**

When a driver is shutdown, it automatically calls the shutdown method of each device, which sets this stop flag to True. So this flag could be tested in the devhardware method if that facility is used, and should gracefully shut down the co-routine.

**driver**

The driver object, can be used to access driver.send_message() and driver.send_getProperties() methods if required, and also to access any other device using the driver mapping feature.