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Circuits

Until now, we have seen devices in isolation. We are missing the "big picture" and that is exactly what Circuits View provides.

In its Circuit View, the circuit layout is presented as a list of devices one on top of another, with all connected ports properly labeled and wire numbers also indicated. This Circuit View contains only the devices composing a certain circuit, such as "LiveU", or "Light TV", that you have defined.

You define a Circuit by indicating both the "departure" and the "arrival" devices. Green Book builds the circuit automatically by departing from your Departure devices, following all the connections and listing all devices as they are encountered. This process repeats recursively until no more connections are found or Arrival devices are reached.

The final result is presented to the user and, at the same time, data is statically stored into a CACHE structure in the database. Once cached, you have the opportunity to make changes such as altering the order in which device appear in the list or even removing devices that you consider irrelevant to that circuit.