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To make the configuration of BACnet devices and their objects more easier, a tool called BACnet Explorer is provided. Starting with BMS Platform and MP Server version R2 Build 2068, this tool can be used to discover BACnet devices and their objects online or BACnet EDE files can be imported.

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In the last window you will see the final configuration of the devices and objects including the existing configuration when update was chosen. If everything is fine, press the Finish button to save the configuration to your workspace. The BACnet Explorer will close then.

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Importing EDE files

If a online discovery is not possible and BACnet EDE files are provided by the BACnet integrator, you can import them too. After having selected the appropriate option at the starting window, the import window is shown.

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Select one or more files using the Open file(s) button. The BACnet Explorer supports both EDE formats – MS Excel and CSV. For the later one, the BACnet Explorer will try to detect the CSV deliminator automatically. If this does not work, please choose the correct deliminator and try again.

Starting the Core Server

Start the Core Server and open an Item Tree. All BACnet devices and objects are found under the branch NETx\XIO\BACnet. Each device has one entry within the Item Tree. Below this entry a GATEWAY item shows the connection state of the BACnet device. In addition, all selected objects are listed. As defined by the BACnet standard some BACnet objects are read-only (e.g Binary Input, Analog Input, ...) and some are also writable (e.g. Binary Output, Analog Output, ...). Input objects have only one item which shows the current Present Value of the BACnet object. Output objects have in addition for each used BACnet priority one Write Item to send a write command with the given priority and one Reset Item to reset the given priority. The NETx BMS Server supports multiple priorities at the same time. The following figure shows an example.

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