Nrio Device Manager usage notes

Note the following when using the Nrio Device Manager.
  • For an M2mIoNetwork, only one child Nrio16Module is valid. This supports the onboard IO of an M2M JACE (JACE-202 Express).
  • Nrio-accessed IO is represented as “Io16” or “Io34”, where each discovered NrioModule appears with a default name of Io16_n. You change this to a more user-friendly name.
  • You may also enter a Description in the Add dialog when adding an NrioModule, or else do that in the Edit dialog later. Note that Address is read-only, and is automatically assigned by the online Discover (you cannot manually edit).
  • Offline engineering is possible (using Add Offline Hardware), and can be useful when engineering is needed before being online with the exact IO device(s). In this case, when online with the IO devices, you use the Match feature in the Nrio Device Manager, following the Discover.

    This lets you match one-for-one a discovered NrioModule to the actual IO device. In the case of multiple external remote I/O modules (more than one), you typically use the Wink action on discovered devices before each Match, to correctly associate the software component to the right physical I/O module.