L-VIS User Manual
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LOYTEC
Version 6.2
LOYTEC electronics GmbH
10.7.1 Tool Bar
On the top right, a tool bar is available to execute various operations.
The buttons from left to right are:
Add:
Use this button to add a new OPC server from a configuration file of the
device. Supported configuration types include all L-INX, L-GATE, and L-DALI
configuration files. Once the device configuration was loaded, suitable OPC
client data points will be generated and added to the L-Vis project.
Refresh Status:
This button refreshes the status of the selected OPC device. It
will check if the current data point configuration of the device is still in sync with
the data points present in the L-Vis project, or if an update is needed.
Reload:
This button reloads the device configuration and updates the OPC data
points in the L-Vis project to match the current configuration of the OPC server.
Use this button to update the OPC data points whenever changes were made to
the data point configuration of the OPC server.
Select Source:
This button allows you to change the device configuration file
associated with the selected OPC device. In case the name or location of the
configuration file was changed, the OPC device definition must be updated with
the new location of the file.
Open in Editor:
This button will launch the configuration software suitable for
the selected OPC device and load the associated data point configuration.
Delete:
This button deletes the selected OPC devices and all associated data
points. Note that once the data points have been deleted, there is no easy way to
restore them in a way that references from L-Vis objects to these data points will
work again. Even after adding the same device again, the new data points will
have different UIDs and all references to the old data points will be broken.
10.7.2 Device Properties
Below the tool bar is a list of all OPC devices. Each of the device entries can be expanded
to show a number of properties. These properties can be edited and are explained below:
Name:
Internal name for this OPC device. Note that changing the name will also
change the data point folder name in which the associated OPC data points are
located. In case there are templates or template instances referencing the old data
point folder name, they will need adjustment to fit the new name.
Local Address / Port:
These properties specify the primary IP address and port
number which should be used to contact the OPC server.
Local use HTTPS:
When this option is checked, the OPC client will use HTTPS
instead of HTTP when contacting the server.
Public Address / Port:
These properties define a secondary IP address and port
number, which can be tried by the client in case the server is not reachable via the
primary address. This can be used in NATed environments, where different
addresses need to be used depending on the location of the client.
Public use HTTPS:
Same as the option for the local address, but related to the
public address.
