BacnetDevice (bacnet-BacnetDevice)

This component is a Framework representation of a remote BACnet device. Each BacnetDevice resides under the station’s BacnetNetwork. Each BacnetDevice contains a full complement of device extensions (containers), including Points, Schedules, and Trend Logs (histories), for modeling data (from that device) in the station.

Figure 61. BacnetDevice properties

One way to access these properties is to expand BacnetNetwork and double-click BacnetDevice.

In addition to the common properties (Status, Enabled, Health and Fault Cause), this component has these properties.

Property	Value	Description
Alarm Source Info	additional properties	Contains a set of properties for configuring and routing alarms when this component is the alarm source. For property descriptions, refer to the Niagara Alarms Guide The Niagara Alarms Guide documents these properties.
Address	additional properties	Serves as a collective property name for `Network Number`, `MAC Address`, and MAC address style.
Points	additional properties	Opens the Bacnet Point Manager.
Virtual	additional properties	Provides access to the virtual components in the station’s virtual component space, which is specific to the device. This is in addition to the standard collection of slots for device-level components.
Alarms	additional properties	Specifies how alarms from that device are mapped into the station’s own alarm subsystem, plus provide status properties related to alarm sharing. Provides access to three alarm-related properties: `Alarm Class`, `Last Received Time`, and `Niagara Process Id`.
Schedules	additional properties	Opens the Bacnet Schedule Import Manager. The Property Sheet provides access to the Retry Trigger component, `Subscribe Window`, and `Skip Write On Error` properties.
Trend Logs	additional properties	Opens the Bacnet History Manager. You use this manager to import BACnet trend log objects from the device to the station as histories. The property sheet accesses to the Retry Trigger properties.
Enumeration List	list of facets	Configures a long list of BACnet facets.
Use Cov	`true` or `false` (If the device was discovered, and the station database determined that the device indicates support for server-side COV, this property defaults to `true`. Otherwise, it defaults to `false` indicating that no proxy points under the device use COV.)	Enables (`true`) and disables (`false`) a device’s support for COV (change of value) as a way to monitor proxy point values. Assuming the device supports subscription to the COV service, `true` triggers the driver to attempt the necessary updates (proxy subscriptions) to the value of each point using the BACnet COV subscription to the device. If the subscription attempt succeeds, the `Read Status` property of the point’s BacnetProxyExt displays COV. If the subscription attempt fails, the driver uses normal polling and the `Read Status` property shows Polled. When `true`, individual proxy points under the device may use COV subscriptions, depending on their assigned tuning policy. When `false`, the driver ignores any proxy subscription updates.
Use Cov Property	`true` or `false` (default)	Indicates if the system uses COV Property notification services (`true`) to receive data about points in this device for which COV Property is supported.
Max Cov Subscriptions	text (defaults to max)	Specifies the maximum number of COV (change of value) subscriptions that the database attempts to use with this device. This restriction prevents the station from consuming all of the available subscription space in the device. Applies only if `Use Cov` is `true`.
Cov Subscriptions	read-only	Reports the number of active COV client subscriptions to the device.
Character Set	drop-down list (defaults to `Ansi C3_4`)	Defines the character set supported, with other selections: IBM/Microsoft DBCS, JIS C 6226, ISO 10646 (UCS-4), ISO 10646 (UCS-2), ISO 8859-1, and Unknown.

BacnetDevice (bacnet-BacnetDevice)

Figure 61. BacnetDevice properties

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