Actions On Bacnet Spyder Explained

Generate Network Objects

The Generate Network Objects action on device level creates the object references from control
program to create the binding between the objects. These Object references are listed and used in Add
Bindings dialog to make the binding between the devices.

The Input points object references are displayed in the Target details of Add Bindings dialog box.
The Output points object references are displayed on the Source details of Add Bindings dialog box.

The Binary Output and Modulating Output points have 16 priority input object references and an output
object reference on device level. The priority object references are displayed in Target details and
output object reference are displayed in Source details of Add Binding dialog box.

On restarting the station the object references are removed from the device if it is not involved in
binding.

Clear slots
The object references for binding are created using the Generate network objects action at the device
level (see Generate network Objects).
The Clear slots action is used to remove the object references that are not involved in binding.

Fetch Object Names

The Learn Links action first checks if the device from which the link is learnt is having the object
reference at the device level, if its not present it will look for the object in the ControlProgram. But for
the other device involved in binding it only checks for the object reference at the device level and if the
reference is not found it would create default object references. In this case the Fetch Object Names
action loads the ControlProgram and fetch the exact name of the object and rename the default name.

Name: The name you specified for the Program while creating it. It is non editable.
Type: Indicates the type used. It is non-editable.
Version: The version number. It is non editable.
Description: A brief description of the application. Use this field to briefly describe the purpose
of this Program.

Write Device Instance

Perform this action to change the device instance number in the online device through Niagara. Change
the device Instance number in Device Object under Config object of a device and click Action to write
the changed value to the controller.
Clear Bindings
The Clear Bindings action on device level removes the binding information from the controller.
The clear binding action changes the bound links to new Links. If the device is having the obsolete Links
then the obsolete links are removed from the controller. These can be observed in Bacnet Link manager
view (see Types of Link Status section for more information).
The clear binding action can be performed only in the following conditions:

Device should be online.

Device should be in the downloaded state.
Device should not be in use

Learn Links
The Learn Links action on device level learns the bound links from the device.When the bound link is
deleted from the link manger view then the link are displayed as obsolete link. If the user wants to
restore the bound link then the user can perform the learn links action on the device. After learn Links
the obsolete link are changed to bound link.
The Learn Links action can be performed only in the following conditions:

Device should be online.

Device should be in the downloaded state.
Device should not be in use.