The NETx BMS Server provides a BACnet/IP client interface which can be used to integrate BACnet devices and their objects. In addition, non BACnet/IP devices that use other BACnet media (e.g. BACnet MS/TP, BACnet over LonWork, ...) can be integrated too. For these non-IP devices, corresponding BACnet/IP routers have to be available.
Compared to other technologies, BACnet does not provide a vendor-independent management tool for configuring and maintaining BACnet devices – each vendor has its own tool for engineering their devices. However, BACnet on the other hand provides device management services which can be used to discover BACnet devices and their objects online – only an IP connection to the BACnet network has to be available.
For discover BACnet devices and their objects, the NETx BMS Server provides a tool called BACnet Explorer. This tool can be started from the NETx BMS Studio when NETx BMS Server is not running.
To start the explorer, shutdown the NETx BMS Server and select "Start Explorer ..." from the "BACnet" menu within the NETx BMS Studio.
Afterwards, the BACnet Explorer is starting. If it is the first time that the BACnet Explorer is used within a BMS Workspace, the BACnet Explorer for the local IP address that shall used for communicating with the BACnet network. If you have multiple IP addresses please select the one that is used to communicate with the BACnet network.
Then, the user interface of the BACnet Explorer is shown. It will automatically start to search for BACnet devices. After a few seconds, all available BACnet devices (IP and non-IP ones will be listed). The following figure shows an example:
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