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BACnetStack_SendReinitializeDevice

bool BACnetStack_SendReinitializeDevice(
uint8_t * sentInvokeId,
const uint8_t reinitializedStateOfDevice,
const char * password,
const uint8_t passwordLength,
const uint8_t * connectionString,
const uint8_t connectionStringLength,
const uint32_t networkPortInstance,
const uint16_t destinationNetwork,
const uint8_t * destinationAddress,
const uint8_t destinationAddressLength,
const uint8_t passwordEncoding);

Sends a confirmed ReinitializeDevice request, asking a remote device to reboot, restore factory defaults, or start/end a backup or restore session.

See also: Client response hooks

BACnet reference: ANSI/ASHRAE 135-2024 clause 16.4 (ReinitializeDevice Service).

Parameter Direction Description
sentInvokeId out The invoke-id of the sent request, valid only if this function returns true.
reinitializedStateOfDevice in The requested BACnetReinitializedStateOfDevice: 0 = COLDSTART, 1 = WARMSTART, 2 = STARTBACKUP, 3 = ENDBACKUP, 4 = STARTRESTORE, 5 = ENDRESTORE, 6 = ABORTRESTORE, 7 = ACTIVATE_CHANGES. See CASBACnetStack::BACnetReinitializedStateOfDevice.
password, passwordLength in The optional password to authorize the request (may be empty if the target requires none). passwordLength 0 sends no password. Otherwise the password must be 1 to 20 characters (135-2024 cl. 16.4.1.1.2), counted in characters of passwordEncoding, not in octets: a 20-character UCS-2 password is 40 octets. A password of more than 20 characters or of none, a passwordEncoding above 5, a UTF-8 (encoding 0) password that is not well-formed UTF-8, or password NULL with a non-zero passwordLength returns false and sends nothing. The password’s octets must also fit the build’s character-string limit (STACK_OPTION_MAX_CHARACTER_STRING_SIZE, 64 in an embedded build), so a 20-character password in a wide encoding can be refused there.
connectionString, connectionStringLength in The datalink address to send TO (the destination) - not the local address to send from. For IPv4 this is 6 bytes: 4 octets of IPv4 address followed by 2 octets of port, big-endian (e.g. 0xC0,0xA8,0x01,0x05,0xBA,0xC0 = 192.168.1.5:47808; see BACnetStack_SendRegisterForeignDevice() for a worked example); on BACnet/IPv4 the stack refuses to send to a connection string of any other length, except that a broadcast from a device registered as a foreign device goes to its BBMD and does not use the connection string. MS/TP and BACnet/SC use a different connection-string shape; see their respective Set/Send exports.
networkPortInstance in The Network Port object instance to send the message on, or BACNET_NETWORK_PORT_DEFAULT (4194303) for the default/single port.
destinationNetwork, destinationAddress, destinationAddressLength in The destination to send the request to.
passwordEncoding in The character set password is encoded in (135-2024 cl. 20.2.9): 0 = ANSI X3.4/UTF-8, 1 = IBM/Microsoft DBCS, 2 = JIS X 0208, 3 = ISO 10646 UCS-4, 4 = ISO 10646 UCS-2, 5 = ISO 8859-1. A non-UTF-8 encoding changes byte-level matching on the peer.

True if the request was sent, otherwise false.

Topic: Client requests. Declared in CASBACnetStackDLL.h.