Echelon LonPoint Application and Plug-In - Manual (Page 55)

The LonPoint Application and Plug-in Guide 5-7
Heartbeats
This tab appears as follows:
This tab allows you to set heartbeat and throttle options for the input and output
network variables on the Digital Encoder functional block. This tab contains the
following fields:
Input Heartbeat Determines the interval (in seconds) the network
variables that have the Use Heartbeat option
selected will wait for a heartbeat before registering a
heartbeat failure. See Heartbeats in Chapter 1 for
more information
Use Heartbeat Determines whether heartbeat checking will be used
for each of the four input network variables. The All
and None buttons allow you to enable heartbeat
checking for all input network variables or none of
the input network variables, respectively.
Output Heartbeat Determines the output heartbeat, in seconds, for both
output network variables. This is the maximum
amount of time that may pass without a network
variable update before one is sent automatically. Set