Items to manage events with GENA the General Event Notification Architecture.

Items to manage events with GENA the General Event Notification Architecture.

Eventing is Step 4 in UPnP networking. Eventing comes after addressing (Step 0) where devices get a network address, after discovery (Step 1) where control points find interesting device(s), and after description (Step 2) where control points learn about device capabilities. Eventing is intimately linked with control (Step 3) where control points send actions to devices. Through eventing, control points listen to state changes in device(s). Control and eventing are complementary to presentation (Step 5) where control points display a user interface provided by device(s).