Contemporary Control Systems BASremote User Manual (firmware 3.1.x) - Manual (Page 66)

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which you downloaded the Project Builder file. At this page you can access the list of
online profiles and download any profile that your project needs. These files can be
saved to any location on your hard drive, but it is convenient if they are in the same
location as your Project Builder file.
After the desired profiles have been downloaded, click the Add Modbus Profile button in
Figure 46. A window will appear and prompt you for a file to load. Navigate to the
location where you saved the file(s) that you downloaded, and select a file. After
specifying the file to be loaded, that device’s Modbus to BACnet Profile Sheet (M2BPS)
will appear
— then a dialog will open and prompt you to Enter Device Description or
Location for this profile that you are adding to your project. You can enter up to 12
characters. (Leaving this field blank is allowable but not recommended.) After
specifying the Device Description or Location, another dialog will open and prompt you
for the Modbus Slave ID (the Modbus address of the device in question). This dialog
box also displays the available address values from which you may choose. Make your
choice and click OK. After the Modbus address value has been accepted, the profile
sheet closes and you once again see the Project Builder sheet of Figure 46.
Note: What was the top-most blank line of the Project Builder worksheet will now be
numbered and populated with data from the profile you loaded. The easiest way to edit
data for Column 3, 4 or 5 is to double click the cell in question. But in a project with
many devices, you may prefer to click one of the Edit buttons (above the blue row) then
use the Device number from Column 1 to specify the device to be edited. The Project
Builder columns are discussed below.
Note: Although Excel identifies columns by letters, in this discussion the columns of the
Project Builder worksheet are identified by numerals. This makes it is easier to distinguish
references to a column in the Project Builder worksheet from references to a column in a
Profile worksheet (where columns are identified by letters).
Column 1 (Device) This is an automatically generated number. Each Device number
corresponds to a profile that has been added to the Project. You must
reference this number if you use one of the Edit buttons to edit this
device’s profile or delete it from your project. If you simply double click a
cell to be edited, this Device number is not needed.
Column 2 (Modbus Profile Name) This name was specified in the Modbus Profile
and cannot be changed.
Column 3 (Description or Location) This was the text describing the device
description or location that you entered when you loaded the profile.
Column 4 (Modbus ID) This unique value (10 –39) is the Modbus Slave address that
you specified when the device profile was loaded.
Column 5 (Worksheet Name to Configure Poll & COVs) This is a combination of the
values from Columns 3, 2 and 4. Double clicking this cell (or the button
atop Column 5) opens the M2BPS for this device as a new editable sheet
in your project and the Worksheet Name appears on the worksheet tab.
Column 6 (Configured Polls/COVs) This reports how many Polls and COVs are
configured in each M2BPS
. Initially, this column will display “0/0” for each
profile that you have added to your project. (By default, each Modbus Profile
will have the Poll function set to FALSE (off) for each of its variables.)