Adding a device using discovery
You can use online discovery to find and create devices under a controller’s BacnetNetwork. This is the easiest way to populate the controller station with the necessary configured devices.
Prerequisites: You are working in a controller station that has a BacnetNetwork.
- In the Nav tree, expand and double-click the BacnetNetwork.The Bacnet Device Manager view opens.
- To group multiple devices into manageable folders, click New Folder, give the folder a name and double-click the new folder name in the Nav tree.You can discover devices as many times as needed, each time from a different folder.Each folder opens the Bacnet Point Manager view.
- Click the Discover button.The Configure Device Discovery window opens.
- Depending on the size of the BACnet internetwork, you may wish to change the discovery settings from their defaults to something
else.By default, discovery selects all known networks for the job (each network number that matches an entry in the router table). The
Send Global?buttons (Select All or Clear All) are not selected; and the full range of device IDs (0 to 4194302) is specified. - To initiate the discovery job, click OK.A progress bar at the top of the view updates as the driver discovers the devices. When the discovery job completes, discovered devices display in the top Discovered pane. The bottom pane, labeled as Database, is a table of devices that are mapped into the station—initially, this table is empty.
- To sort the table by a column, click the column head.
- To map a discovered device in the station, do one of the following:
- Drag the device from the Discovered pane to the Database pane (an Add window opens).
- Double-click the device in the Discovered pane (an Add window opens).
- Click to highlight the device in the Discovered pane, then press “a” (for add).
If you dragged or double-clicked the device, the Add window opens. - If needed, edit the configuration, and click OK.The driver adds the device to the station database and displays it in the Database pane. It dims the device in the Discovered pane.