# Common Switch Interface

**URL:** <https://forum.opentap.io/t/common-switch-interface/169>\
**Category:** Technical\
**Tags:** feature-request\
**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.opentap.io/t/common-switch-interface/169 "2020-12-10T17:18:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.opentap.io/t/common-switch-interface/169/1 "2020-12-10T17:18:52Z")

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The team is in early discussions of creating a Switch Interface for OpenTAP. Currently, Switches are implemented just as standard instruments, but various use cases have come up where we see the need to be able to identify a Switch.

Interested if people have any thoughts here or use cases this may enable for them that we should make sure to consider.

You can follow (or even help contribute) to the technical work here:

> **[Create a Standard Switch Interface (#480) · Issues · OpenTAP / OpenTAP](https://gitlab.com/OpenTAP/opentap/-/issues/480)**
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> Connect Disconnect CanConnect For reference: https://www.ivifoundation.org/downloads/Class%20Specifications/IVI-4.6\_Swtch\_2011-08-25.pdf