Station-less access

If your Workbench PC has a Lonworks adapter, you can use the Lonworks Service tool to access the Lon Network as if you had a station running on a local PC.

Once started, you use the Lon Device Manager to discover, add, and upload Lon devices, examine nvs and ncis as Lon components, and even perform writes and perform other tasks (make bindings between devices, commission devices, etc.).

Figure 2. Lonworks Service tool in Workbench

CAUTION: Any configuration you perform is not stored (persisted) in a station database, as this is station-less access (modeled completely in RAM). When you close Workbench, all modeling is lost—consider the Lonworks Service like a hand held device in this respect.  For this reason, do not use this tool to access a Lonworks network already managed by a station, but instead open that station, and access itsLonNetwork component.

Station-less access

Figure 2. Lonworks Service tool in Workbench

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