The DeviceTypes.xml file is included in the aapup.jar, which you locally extract using WinZip or some other zip file extraction program. Once extracted, you can use a text editor to modify it. You can then save and rename it, and copy it back to the JACE (using the File Transfer Client view when platform connected to that JACE). Typically, you copy the modified file under the stations folder of the target JACE. Then you can reference it (by a file ord) when configuring the PupNetwork or doing a discover.

A modified file is recommended to be copied to a different location, rather than be re-jar’ed back into the aapup.jar, as that module file is replaced whenever the aapup module is updated.

Modifying device types would be useful, for instance, to change the Channel Names, channel search ranges, add/remove channels, add new device types, and so forth. The ord to this file is found in the “Device Types File” property of the PupNetwork, or in the popup (config discovery) dialogs when doing a discovery in the Pup Device Manager or Pup Point Manager.

See the sections XML syntax and Example: HX1 and GPC1 for more details.