About Nrio offline engineering
The Nrio Device Manager has an Add Offline Hardware button that may be useful if engineering cannot wait until you are online with the actual IO. The following image shows the
resulting dialog, in which you are prompted for name and device type. Note you must be online with the station to access this
feature.
Figure 8. Add Offline Hardware in Nrio Device Manager
NOTE: The
Device Type selection in the Add Offline Hardware dialog defaults to Nrio16Module; currently, this is the only valid selection.Any NrioModule added offline will have value of zero (0) for both Address and Uid (Unique ID), along with a fault status. Its Fault Cause property will read “Invalid UID: Do Discover and Match.”, which summarizes how to clear the fault (once online with the IO).
NOTE: Following adding an NrioModule using the Add Offline Hardware method, note you can still use Learn mode from the component’s Points extension’s Nrio Point Manager view to Discover and Add Nrio proxy points (all will have a fault status). And as needed, add other extension types (e.g. history) and link into control logic, etc.
However, such an NrioModule will not be operational until the JACE is online with the IO device, and only then after you do an online Discover and Match from the Nrio Device Manager. In the case of multiple NrioModules on the NrioNetwork, you typically “wink” discovered IO devices before making each match.