Hardware requirements, Compiling the bacnet sample projects – Echelon IzoT BACnet Developes User Manual
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Hardware Requirements
The following hardware is required to develop and test a BACnet application on the FT
6050
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IzoT Router – required to translate the Ethernet packets to FT-10. This device
acts as an IP packet router but also contains a module that makes the IzoT
Router act as a BACnet Router, per the BACnet standard.
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Echelon Series 6000 EVB - for running the demos, and for the development and
testing of a complete BACnet application by the user.
See the FT 6000 EVK Quick Start Guide and Echelon Series 6000 EVB Hardware Guide
for information on using your IzoT Router and EVB with BACnet.
Compiling the BACnet Sample Projects
The sample projects allow you to build the demo that are downloaded and tested to
verify the tool-chain and procedures. It should be done before attempting to link a
user developed application.
There is a BACevb sample project that is intended to run on the Echelon Series 6000
EVB, and which measures and displays space temperature, flashes LEDs and
interacts with the user.
BACsimple is a simplified project to show the minimum viable project using BACnet,
allowing easier integration with the final application.
Procedure
1. The BAClon Toolkit will be installed along with the other IzoT tools. To access
the BACevb sample project, run NodeBuilder, then open the following project:
C:\LonWorks\NeuronC\Examples\BAClon\BACevb\BACdemo.NbPrj
2. Build the project
3. Using NodeUtil, download BACevb.ndl to the Echelon Series 6000 EVB
4. Confirm that it works. On successful startup:
LED1 will illuminate
LED2 will flash
LED1 will go out if SW1 is held down for 1 second. This LED will come on again
each time the system restarts. It can be used to check for system crashes.
5. Set the Domain Table to reflect the IP address choices for your network, or set
DHCP
6. On a PC attached to the network, run the BACnet Browser for IzoT. This should
discover the BACnet Device on the network, and should list the BACnet Objects
contained in it.
(The BACnet Browser for IzoT can be found here:
Note that the FT6050’s device ID and Object Name will be automatically set
based on the IP address of the FT6050. If desired, this can be changed by the
Using BACnet and LONWORKS with the FT 6000 EVK
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