This article covers how to set up the TransSECS Devices deployment to run as a Service on Windows and on Linux (and Raspberry Pi)

The instructions for running the TransSECS Devices deployment as a Windows service is identical as running MIX as a service, but is somewhat simplified since the run.bat file is generated automatically when the deployment is generated.

The steps are as follows (see the article on running MIX as a service for more details)

1. Download the Service wrapper software as described here. Copy the WinSW.NET461.exe and sample-minimal.xml file to the TransSECS Devices project's deployment directory. For example, if you just built the GEMTool project, there is a GEMToolDeployment directory in your project where these files will be copied.

2. Rename the WinSW.NET461.exe file from the step above to a name for your service executable. For example, if your deployment is for GEMTool, you might rename this exe to GEMTool.exe. Also rename the sample-minimal.xml file to match the name given to the exe, so for this example, GEMTool.xml.

3. Edit the GEMTool.xml (or whatever you renamed your configuration file for this project) in a text editor such as Notepad++. Detailed instructions for MIX can be used as a guide.

As an example, the section for the <service> definition for running the GEMTool deployment which is in the Projects directory of the default TransSECS Devices installation directory would look like:

<service>
 
  <!-- ID of the service. It should be unique across the Windows system-->
  <id>GEMTool</id>
  <!-- Display name of the service -->
  <name>GEMTool SECS/GEM Service</name>
  <!-- Service description -->
  <description>GEMTool SECS/GEM built by TransSECS</description>
 
  <!-- Path to the executable, which should be started -->
  <executable>C:/Users/Public/ErgoTech/TransSECSDevices/Project/GEMTool/GEMToolDeployment/run.bat</executable> 
</service>

Note: the default minimal configuration uses a %BASE% variable which could be defined instead of entering the full path to the application to run.