Addressing

Addressing the variables of the BACnet driver is done with the unique names of the variables. The datapoints of the BACnet driver are uniquely referenced by the object names. The object name of the device object is placed before the object name of the BACnet object; the names are separated by a dot (e.g. BPS10.d10a002); for schedule objects, the name of the property is attached, again separated by a dot. The virtual datapoints of the type BACnet component status represent the status of the connection. They are uniquely identified by the object name of the device object.

Settings for the unique addressing of variables

Property	Description
Name	Used for the unique addressing. Format: device-name.object-name[.property]
Identification	Any text can be entered here, e.g. for resource labels, comments ...
Net address	Bus address or net address of the variable. This address refers to the bus address in the connection configuration of the driver. This defines the PLC, on which the variable resides.
Data block	not used for this driver
Offset	not used for this driver
Alignment	not used for this driver
Bit number	not used for this driver
String length	Only available for String variables: Maximum number of characters that the variable can take.
Driver object type	Depending on the employed driver, an object type is selected during the creation of the variable, and can be changed here later.
Data type	Data type of the variable, which is selected during the creation of the variable; can be changed here later. ATTENTION: If you change the data type later, all other properties of the variable must be checked and adjusted, if necessary.