If configuring the station as a Lonworks node (only), you do not use the various LonNetwork views that provide the interface to Lonworks network management. Instead, you work only in (and under) the Local Lon Device when engineering the station.

Before doing other configuration, set the External Config property of the LocalLonDevice from false (the default) to true, and make sure that its Self Doc property begins with the string “&3.0@0”. See LocalLonDevice External Config.

Following this, use the Local Nv Manager (default) view of the LocalLonDevice. As described in the following sections, you use a two-stage process to expose station data as Lonworks, where you:

Starting in AX-3.4, you can also create an .xif file (external interface file) for the LocalLonDevice, typically done after completing the steps listed above. For details, see LocalLonDevice XIF generation (AX-3.4 and later).