Network Devices

The Network Devices section displays the devices physically connected to the C-Bus network, provided a C-Bus interface is connected to the C-Bus network and the software is able to communicate to this interface.

The DALI devices will be displayed when a DALI line is selected, provided the C-Bus DALI- 2 Gateway is part of the C-Bus network.

NOTE:

The C-Bus network must be opened and scanned to display the C-Bus devices on the network.
The DALI line must be scanned to display the DALI devices on the selected DALI line (DALI-2 Gateway must be reconciled before scanning the DALI line).

Fields	Description
Status	This field displays firmware update icon for the C-Bus devices indicating a new firmware is available for a respective C-Bus device and an upgrade is advised.
Address (Addr)	This field displays the unit address assigned to the device NOTE: For a C-Bus device, the values vary from 0 to 255 For a DALI device, the values vary from 0 to 63
Part Name	This field displays a 8 characters long name that is stored in the device given by the user
Unit Type	This field displays the unit type of the device on the network
Catalogue	This field displays the commercial reference for the device
Description	This field displays the description of the device and cannot be edited
Serial	This field displays the serial number that is on the physical device which is unique to all the devices
Firmware	This field displays the version number of the of the physical device. Some devices have multiple firmware’s: interface board, main board. By default, here the software will display the Main board firmware
Exists in Project	This field displays whether there is a matching device that exist on the network Matching rules: Yes: Fully matched, where the unit address, serial number, unit type and firmware version are the same in project and on the network Unit Type Only: Partial matched, where the unity type, firmware and unit address are the same in project and on the network
Application	This field displays the selected device's application address that the device has been assigned
Voltage	This field displays the voltage of the device

The Operations that can be performed in this section are:

Open C-Bus Network

Prerequisites: The C-Bus interface must be connected to the C-Bus network and the software must be able to communicate to this interface.

The Open network option opens a network connection to the SpaceLogic C-Bus Commission software.

To Open the Network

Select the network from the project.

NOTE: When the network is closed, the network appears as shown below:
Click C-Bus Devices.
In the Workspace window, the Network Devices section appears as shown below before opening the network
Click in Network Devices section
The Network is open

IMPORTANT: Trying to close the network while deployment activities are in progress is not possible.

Scan C-Bus Network

Prerequisites: The network must be opened before scanning.

The Scan option searches for the devices in the network.

The C-Bus devices present in the network appears in the Devices on Network section, after the network is opened and scanned. The DALI devices present on the line appears in the Line Devices section, after the DALI line is scanned.

NOTE: If scanning of network is done without opening the network, internally the network is opened first and then scanning is performed.

IMPORTANT:

If the device in the project is removed which has applications or groups configured in it, scanning of network will automatically creates the applications or groups with default names.

Trying to close the network or project while scanning is in progress is not possible.

Once the scanning is completed, firmware update icon will be displayed for the C-Bus devices, indicating a new firmware is available for the C-Bus device.

Click on to perform firmware upgrade for a respective C-Bus device.

After firmware is upgraded successfully, re-scaning the Network devices will reflect new firmware version.

NOTE: Once the firmware is updated for a selected device and the Network device is re-scaned, firmware icon

will not be displayed.

Transferring Device from Network to Project Database

Prerequisites: The network must be already be created. The C-Bus network must be opened and scanned C-Bus devices.

In order to transfer(extract) devices from Network to Project , Network Devices must be either partially matched or fully matched with the Project Devices.

A device is said to be partially matched if the fields information of address, unit type and firmware in Project are same as in Network.

If a device is fully matched then the device can be extracted to the project or deployed to network directly

TIP: Multiple devices can be extracted only if all of them are fully matched.
Select the devices in Network and click drop-down and choose extract all devices.

If a device is partially matched then, firstly the device has to be matched fully with the project device in Project. The process of fully matching the devices is as demonstrated below:

Sort Device

Prerequisites: The devices must already be opened and scanned in a Network

The Devices in the live network can be sorted using and selecting an appropriate sort method.

Unravel

Unravelling unit addresses is the process of giving unique unit addresses to all units within a C-Bus network.

Unravelling unit addresses is important when you are adding C-Bus units to the physical address. When new C-Bus units are added to the network which have been previously used on another network, they may be configured with unit addresses that are already taken on the C-Bus network.

C-Bus network scanning process identifies the C-Bus units with duplicate addresses, which is highlighted as duplicate.

On identifying duplicate the confirmation box is displayed to resolve the conflict.

If selected No: the duplicate address is retained
If selected Yes: confirmation dialog box to unravel duplicate network device is displayed
1. If selected No: the duplicate address is retained
  
  This can be resolved manually :
  
  To unravel duplicate unit addresses, select the device and click select unravel.
  
  TIP: Unravel can also be done by right-click Network Devices > Unravel
2. If selected Yes: unravelling process is initiated
3. Once unravel is complete, the details of unravelled devices and their new addresses are displayed
  
  The details can be copied to the notepad for future use or/and close the window.

All the addresses in the network are unique.

Readdressing

The Readdress function allows the readdressing of units within a C-Bus network or database.

To Readdress a network, right-click Project > Readdress Network Device

Readdress Network Device dialog box is displayed, select the address and click OK.

Readdressing is used to perform project device match or match network.

NOTE: Readdressing cannot be performed on Bridge devices.

If the C-Bus project has only serial or CNI (C-Bus Network Interface) connections, the re-addressing of a single network is straightforward.

NOTE: The addressing structure must be maintained when readdressing networks.

Dynamic Mode devices

When PCI or CNI devices are connected, these are identified as different unit type. Software will not allow these dynamic types to reconcile, deploy and extract with the dynamic device modes.

To handle these dynamic device modes (unit types) when network is open:

After scanning a network and discovering a network device with a unit type variant of ”LOCAL”, it is possible to match the network device to a project device using the existing matching rules.
The Match status will reflect “Yes” or “Unit Type Only” if the alternative “LOCAL” unit type is discovered on a network scan and existing matching rules are met.

NOTE: The Unit Type of the project device will not change after the matching status is updated ( it will never reflect the “LOCAL” Unit Type, and cannot be set to the “LOCAL” Unit Type variant).
All existing operations and functions will be allowed once the match status is set .