The goal of this ticket is to provide a setup service to help with product deployment, such that an external device such as a phone can "talk" to SolarNode via a simple text-based protocol to discover and configure different aspects of SolarNode. This is not meant to be a HTTP based API, so that it might be easily accessed via a serial connection, such as Bluetooth RFCOMM.

STOMP defines a simple text-based protocol that is similar to HTTP and well established. SolarNode could expose a TCP server that uses the STOMP protocol to encode messages between the external setup device and SolarNode. The message bodies could consist of plain text or JSON, the syntax of which must be defined in advance (a "SolarNode Setup Command API").