Echelon i.LON 10 Ethernet Adapter - Manual (Page 78)

Download and Install the OpenLDV Driver
The OpenLDV driver provides L ON W ORKS tools and applications with a unified
Windows interface for sending and receiving LonTalk messages on your i.LON 10
Ethernet Adapter. You can obtain OpenLDV from the download section of the
Echelon website at www.echelon.com . Use the OpenLDV ReadMe File, also
available at the download site, for an overview of the driver and installation
instructions.
NOTE: Uplink connections can only be established using Windows 2000,
Windows XP, and Vista.
Using the L ON W ORKS Interfaces Control Panel Applet
Use the L ON W ORKS Interfaces Control Panel Applet to create Windows Registry
entries that will store the information xDriver will require to connect the LNS
server to each of your i.LON 10s. A separate entry is required for each i.LON 10
you plan to connect to the LNS server with xDriver. The default xDriver will
access the appropriate entry each time it initiates a connection to an i.LON 10,
and extract the information it needs to establish the connection.
If you are managing a large application and will be using more than 50 i.LON
10s with xDriver, you should consider using an external database management
system to store this information. Please see the LNS for Windows Programmer’s
Guide, xDriver Extension for more information on this.
The following procedure describes how to use the L
ON W ORKS Interfaces Control
Panel Applet.
1. Open the Windows Control Panel and double-click the L
ON W ORKS Interfaces
icon ( ). This opens the L ON W ORKS Interfaces Control Panel Applet.
NOTE: This is not the same as the L ON W ORKS /IP Channels control panel
applet.
B-2 The xDriver Software