User Guide for Babel Buster X2 and IP/XL
Control Solutions’ earliest gateways were non-web based, e.g. twisted pair only. User
guides many pages long were written about them. Technical support questions seemed to
suggest it was too much reading for most. Therefore, when we came out with web based
gateways, we thought it would be a good idea to put the user guide online within the device
itself. With online documentation available, we thought hard copy was unnecessary and
wasteful, so gateways like Babel Buster X2 and IP/XL had no printed user guide.
The user guide information can still be found in the web pages within the gateways
themselves and there never was a formal printed user guide for either the X2 or IP/XL.
From time to time, we created supplemental online user guides intended to augment the
pages found in the device itself. Configuring LonWorks is one topic that had extra web
pages at csimn.com; however, some years after the X2 and IP/XL were discontinued, those
pages got removed from our web site. That content has been recovered and reprinted here.
The Babel Buster IP/XL did not have the information in this document replicated for that
model in part because it is largely the same. The only difference between configuring X2
and IP/XL is that on X2 you reference Modbus registers and on IP/XL you reference BACnet
objects. But the LonWorks part is all the same.
Use of the XIF to CSV conversion utility is optional. If you choose to use that utility, it is still
available in the Legacy section of our Library page. There are two versions, one for X2 and
one for IP/XL.
Summary of Contents for X2
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