BACnet Point Manager

The BACnet Point Manager view is available for each device added to the BACnet network. It allows to discover new BACnet points available for the devices and lists all BACnet points added to the Device component (AnalogPoint/BinaryPoint/MultistatePoint and AnalogCustomPoint/BinaryCustomPoint/StringCustomPoint).

The BACnet Point Manager view is divided into 2 sections: Discovered and BACnet Point Manager. In the Discovered section, the view shows the points' name, object Id, object type, type and value. In the BACnet Point Manager section, the view shows the points' Out slot value, status, object name and ID, polling mode, and enabled or disabled state.

54 Bacnet point manager.png — BACnet Point Manager

In the BACnet Point Manager, it is possible to:

discover BACnet points of the given BACnet device:

To discover points of the given BACnet device, use the Discover button. The progress of the discovering process is presenter on a bar.

73 BACnet point discovered.png — Points discovered

Once points are discovered for the device, they appear in the Discovered window. To manage the points, add them to the Point Manager section (drag and drop or use the Add button - if the list includes a lot of points to add, first, use the Select All option from the context menu).

manually add BACnet points:

54a Bacnet point manager.png — Adding BACnet point

edit the BACnet point’s name, units, address and enable/disable the component:

54b Bacnet point manager.png — Editing pop-up

Note

Editing is possible for more than one point at a time. If multiple points are edited, the same new value is written to common slots, so individual slots, such as Name, cannot be edited in this manner.

54c Bacnet point manager.png — Editing of multiple points

copy/paste/duplicate/delete BACnet points:

54e Bacnet point manager.png — Context menu options for the BACnet point

Opening the BACnet Point Manager

The BACnet Point Manager view is accessible from the context menu of the Device component. It is also automatically opened if the Device component is double-clicked in the nav tree window.

54d Bacnet point manager.png — Accessing the BACnet Point Manager from the context menu