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K-CONFIG - Defining the Control Room via the Project Navigator
2.
Click OK.
FC-26
appears in the Project Navigator window as follows:
Figure 127: Control Gateway device – FC-26 Listed in the Project Navigator
Adding the control gateway adds additional ports through which you can send commands to devices. For example, the
FC-26
when connected to the
RC-74DL
via the Ethernet port, adds four more IR OUT ports and two more RS-232
ports to the system. So the
RC-74DL
can actually control two R
S−232 and four IR controllable devices via the
Ethernet connection.
These ports are defined in the Port Manager of the Master controller (
RC-74DL
in this example).
Once a control gateway device is added to the system, you can open the Port Manager Window to assign each of the
FC-26
ports to an Ethernet port in the
RC-74DL
.
RC-74DL
Port Manager after adding the
FC-26
Device:
Figure 128: Control Gateway Device – Port Manager Window
Note that 15 Ethernet ports are added when the master device is a physical master room controller device
and 50 Ethernet ports are added for a Virtual room controller device (see
Section 12
