Lon Point Manager tips

In the Lon Point Manager, all available point data is already discovered when the device was initially learned. Or, if you added a DynamicDevice offline, and then referenced a specific Lon Xml file, the available point data is then known.

When you Discover (or toggle Learn Mode on) to see the discovered data (top pane), all data is listed by the names of the LonComponents (nviName1 and nvoName2, for example).

Many nvs and ncis are implemented with structured SNVTs—in this case (by default), you only see the first data element in the structure, and a “+” to the left of the nv or nci name.

Figure 51. Structured nvs and nvis are expandable in Discovered pane

As shown in Figure 51, click the “+” to expand to see all data items in the SNVT structure. Each item is a potential candidate for a Lon proxy point. See the next section, Lon proxy point type selection.