If you know the Lon device types you will have under your network, you may wish to add devices to the database offline, or
even manually add them when online. When adding a new device, you can select a device component from a specific lon<Vendor> palette.
Prerequisites: You are connected to the remote host using
Workbench.
- In
Workbench, open the Palette side bar, if not already open.
- Open any of the lon<Vendor> palettes with devices of interest, for example, lonHoneywell.
Available devices are listed by default names matching the source .lnml file name.
- Open the target view of the target Lon network, or of the target Lon Device Folder under the Lon network.
This may be the Device Manager view or the wire sheet view.
- Drag a device from the palette to the target view or from the palette to the Lon network node in the Nav tree).
A popup Name window opens, in which you can enter a meaningful name.
- Enter a name or accept the default, and click OK.
The driver adds the device to the station database.
At the time of this document, you should also perform additional steps below
- If the station in a remote host does not have the same lon<Vendor> module already installed as the local module palette that you are copying from, right-click the newly-copied device, and
on its popup menu select the
ImportXml command.
The ImportXml window opens, showing module://lon<Vendor>/<device>.lnml, which corresponds to the device you just dragged from the palette.
- Click OK.
The driver reads the data from the local .lnml file into the device component in the remote station. The device is now ready for offline programming or if, online with
the host and Lon network, it is ready for matching with an actual device.