Connector

A connector is a protocol-connector instance running on a gateway and managed through the platform. It is the concrete realization of a connector type on one gateway.

• A connector is either gateway-level (not bound to a device) or bound to exactly one managed sub-device.
• The platform is the system of record: you declare a desired spec {connector_type, type_version, config, mappings}, and the gateway reports the state it actually applied (CREATED, DISPATCHED, APPLIED, DEGRADED, FAILED).
• A connector's config and mappings are interpreted only by the edge; the platform never understands protocol details.

The bound device profile supplies the reusable point table; instance overrides are merged over it at dispatch. Health checks (health_check) are available only on connectors bound to a device.

See the Connectors page guide for full operations.