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available on these devices. Now the required mappings may be created from these template
data points (see next section).
10.16.4.3 Create Mapping
Browse through the available data points in the import folder and select the ones for which
mappings should be created. Multi selection within the same folder is possible. Open the
context menu and select
Use on Device.
For all selected points, a suitable remote data point
will be created.
NOTE:
The data direction of the points created in the import folder are set from the point of view
of the scanned device, since they represent communication objects which are available on
the remote device (for an input network variable on a remote device, you will see an input
data point in the import folder). Once the point is used to create a remote network data
point on the L-VIS device, the direction will change, since an output network variable will
be required to send data to the remote devices input network variable.
To simplify the selection and configuration of remote network data points for CEA-709
devices, it is possible to create device configuration templates for the different program-
IDs. The device template defines a set of network variables and their configuration, which
can be used as a template when a device of the specified type is added to the project. To
add new network variables to the device template, select the desired imported data points
from the import folder and select the context menu command
Use as Template
to add them
to the respective device template, which will be automatically created for each device in the
CEA-709 Templates
folder. On these templates, you can now configure a few settings like
the desired data point name, or the type of data point (external or static NV). These settings
will be applied automatically when a data point matching the template is added.
When the templates are ready, it is possible to use all data points from all scanned objects
which match one of the available templates, and have the default settings applied to the
newly created data points. To do this, select the command
Use on device and apply all
templates
on the top level scan folder.
NOTE:
A remote network data point refers to another device in the network, which had a certain
configuration at the time the scan was executed. If the configuration of the remote device
changes later on, the remote network data points may stop working until the network is
rescanned or the mapping to the remote device is changed manually to reflect the new
configuration. To avoid this situation and to keep a project reusable for different networks
or different subsystems within the same network, it is therefore desirable to create local
network data points instead when using a CEA-709 device, and use network variable
bindings to define the communication between the L-VIS device and other devices. This
way, the same project file may be used in different rooms, communicating with different
devices and not be specific to a certain room.
