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The LON Devices page shows a list of all of the presently known devices. When first
configuring the X2, this page will start with an empty list.

The devices are numbered. The device number is a link to detailed information about that

device. Click on the number one next.

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Summary of Contents for X2

Page 1: ...e 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 n...

Page 2: ...a user name and password As shipped the default user name is system and its password is admin NOTE The LonWorks interface has been rewritten as of July 2008 to provide support for structured SNVT s The upgrade includes a requirement to re program the Neuron Chip and its application has a different program interface This means you must have LonMaker in order to do a field upgrade to v2 81 or higher...

Page 3: ...t of all of the presently known devices When first configuring the X2 this page will start with an empty list The devices are numbered The device number is a link to detailed information about that device Click on the number one next ...

Page 4: ...e II Step 1 Click the Get Service Pin button Node status will show Waiting for service pin Now press the service button or install button on the device you want to learn Click the Update button and status will return to ok if the message was received In addition Neuron ID and Program ID will now have non zero numbers If you don t have physical access to the device but do know its Neuron ID you can...

Page 5: ...IF and will indicate XIF Import Done when finished Click the Update button to refresh this status The purpose of the XIF import is to learn what network variables are in the LonWorks device If you wish to preconfigure an X2 without being connected to the LonWorks device you can upload its XIF file if you have that NOTE The X2 is not able to import the XIF form a device which has structured network...

Page 6: ... You may then click the Auto Allocate button to have X2 pick registers for you It will pick floating point or integer registers based on what the variable type is inside the LonWorks device You can select registers manually if desired Once you have completed these steps the variables are now mapped Our over simplified example below shows that we are only going to retrieve a single phase of volts p...

Page 7: ...e data is listed on this page according to network variable position in the respective LonWorks device Assuming you see data as illustrated in the first screen shot below you will also see the data shown in the second screen shot which you get to by clicking the System tab ...

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Page 9: ...You should now save your configuration which will include the device and network variable mapping information Go to the Config File page and click Save ...

Page 10: ...clicking Load on the page above you will now only see those variables that have been mapped for a given device as illustrated in the examples below If you want to retrieve the entire variable list to map additional variables not originally included you will need to re import the XIF file ...

Page 11: ...ured SNVT s When an XIF file is imported which includes structures the total NV count is really a count of data fields in the NV s The example below showing a Trane chiller has a total of 119 data fields that can potentially be mapped to Modbus registers ...

Page 12: ...SNVT s will show up as a series of Raw NV s consisting of the various fields of the structure broken down into their component parts The item at NV index 31 in the example below is a SNVT_chlr_status type variable ...

Page 13: ...e details of any NV on the list above Clicking on the instance of 31 in front of nvoChillerStat Limited brings us to the page shown below The Group check box means this entry in the list is a member of a structure that must be read along with its other members ...

Page 14: ...itself using the Nodeutil exe tool available for free download at www echelon com The first step is to convert the XIF file to a CSV file The purpose of this intermediate step is to allow you to review the mapping in bulk form using Excel or equivalent spread sheet program Open a command prompt start Programs Accessories Command Prompt and type in this command xif2csvX2 mynode xif where mynode xif...

Page 15: ...mine whether you can appropriately interpret that value as a BACnet object before changing it to Y DO NOT change NVindex or Direction A mismatch here will cause unpredictable results including failure to communicate All scalar network variable types will have their conversion recognized automatically by Babel Buster X2 The term scalar means it is a single data element such as integer floating poin...

Page 16: ...ice There can be only one SPID in the CSV file and it must be on line 1 If you intend to map multiple devices in a single gateway create one CSV per device Line 2 Comment line with labels skipped line 2 skipped regardless of content ...

Page 17: ...the pdf document mentioned above Column 5 Offset Structured variables are multiple bytes in length This column provides the byte offset from the first byte of the structure where this field or object is found Column 6 Bit offset Some structured variables treat individual bits as data elements and often there is a set of multiple bits in such a structure The Offset column is used to access the corr...

Page 18: ...ted before the Lock object to result in a completely synchronous update Do not set more than one Lock field per group as this will defeat the purpose Column 12 NV name Originally taken from the XIF file this can be edited to your liking and shows up as the Modbus register name stored in the gateway ...

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