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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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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.

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Within the logs, you find the results of the import.

After having added all required EDE files, press the next buttons. In the following window, you can see the new devices that will be added to the configuration.

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Since the EDE files do not contain the address information i.e. IP address of IP address or link layer address of non-IP devices, the address information must be added in this step. For each device, click on the … button and add the address information. After press next to get to the window where all new objects are listed:

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If required, you can always go back to discovery window and change the configuration are required.

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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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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