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Have dinner with the boss Monday (today). How about end of day Tuesday (630 after the trade show) at the downstairs bar?
I'll be in a Hawaiian short with a green hat woth a white rabbit on it each...

I believe Alper is going to be there for the datacenter panel and I'll be there all three days. Matbe we should all meet up and have a beer

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"Welcome to the party, pal" ~ John McClain

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Anyone else attending the summit in Anaheim?


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For those of you interested in integrating Alexa into your building automation systems.

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EnOcean?

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I believe the Innotech gateway is just Modbus to BACnet with a pre-programmed database. Not sure if the Vaisala is proprietary or Modbus.

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Not sure of pricing but that giant social media (now focusing on AI) company uses a Vaisala weather station with an Innotech gateway for their hyperscale datacenters.
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Get a Loytec Lon to BACnet router.

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Hmmm.... must uave been a legacy thing. Have always been able to write to AVs in their newer stuff (from Delta ORCAview anyways).

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MACH2 are older generation dual protocol devices that can be set to communicate either RCP or BACnet. I assume that they are BACnet if you can discover them and bring in points. What priority are you...

The logic "resets" the setpoint linearly by the process variable (OAT in example 1) as follows:

An OAT sensor reading of "OAT for high SF1 heating setpoint value" reset the setpoint to "SF1...

I am working on a project replacing over 50 sites of KMC/KMD. It's early stuff is almost (and I mean like 98%) the same as early Reliable Controls which I have a lot of experience with. Betwwen the...

Modbus is a protocol and like others it is just a set of rules that have to be (loosely) followed. I believe Chipkin have a good manual for the basics.
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Also could be used for simple two equipment lead/ lag or rotation. If rotation or fail of a equipment binary variable equals not binary variable, etc.

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Buy your stack from one of the established BACnet developers suchs a Chipkin or Cimetrics to embed in your product.

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RC-Toolkit or the zone sensor set-up tool?

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Try 6mm "PLC" relays from Finder, Phoenix Contact or Idec. They work with both Reliable Controls and Delta UO. Always check the data sheet to see what the coil holding current is for compatibility.
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Reliable Controls have MSTP slave controllers, but their they can also enable slave proxy function on their masters which make the salevs appear on the network (still don't partake in the token...

Hmmm....... here it is 5 years later and the prediction of BACnet no longer being around have not come to fruition. I do see more support of liteweight IOT protocols such as MQTT, but BACnet is still...

You could do the above (if stage 1 is on for X min enable stage 2) using a time delay relay which is wired to stage 1 on the thermostat and connected to stage 2 at the WSHP. If your going to have to...

First and foremost define your expectations for the department.

Are you looking to just service existing customers? Replace failed controllers (Distech should be easy to source, ALC will be...

Last time I saw this happen at a large RC site in Las Vegas the facility IT dept changed some rules and blocked the BACnet port. See if you can ping the MPC/MPS used for your primary connection...

Short answer is no. OEMCtrl (re-branded ALC) is one of the most restrictive vendors out there.

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Turn of the PRAC+ and manually tune?

I know that is what service techs did at Siemens with their self tuning PIDs that construction techs / programmers installed during projects that wouldn't ...

That is my understanding, it used Lon as the transport layer. Had some limitations as to how many controllers a physical network segment could support Classic and if you exceeded that you had to use...

Probably a TAC Vista "Classic" network. Don't know much about it but it was their proprietary prtocol usin Lon. Open is as open does.

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What about two wire Ethernet? Never seen it in the wold but from my understanding it can be run a few thousand feet.

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No edit because we have members who think re-writing history is cool even before the masses thought it was cool. I believe e you can edit a comment within 15ish minutes of posting....

Long radius bends.

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I have used the converters from Contemporary Controls before. We also used cheap generic ones on lowball spec and bid projects in the past, of the two I would use the CC ones.
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We used to run old ALC CMnet on ancient twisted pair phone lines around Ft. McArthur, a Army (now Airforce) base built in 1914. It was underground conduit, some filled with water and it worked about...

So I found the factory install CD for Continuum 1.80. If anyone is interested in the USB key and install cd reach out via email (in my profile).

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Although not preferred when set up correctly VFD controlled via cimms is reliable enough for any situation other than mission critical. This includes how the VFD is configured for loss of comm and...

Thread has run it's course.

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We have a few hundred ECMs on fanwalls per project. All communicating via Modbus. Hyperscale datacenter so they pay top dollar for equipment and install. Nothing like you came across.

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When Microsoft bought Visio it went to hell. Used to play so nice with other Office products, now not so much.

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Florida now days. Move was rough but life is good.
Let me take a look this weekend to see if I can find the software and manuals.

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I have a Continuum USB key. SU-HV-P-USB. I think I have the install for 1.91 or 1.92 around somewhere (moved last year from NV to FL and had it when I left, haven't found it but have the key in...

Not sure if subnet controllers support BACnet routing, the PIC statements or BIBBs would define that.

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From my experience only system controllers can configure Net 2 as BACnet. On subnet controllers Net 2 is LINKnet. Be aware if a system controller has LINKnet devices on Net 2 it would be configured...

If I remember on 550s the drive was a MSTP slave and would only show up via BACnet discovery on systems that supported salve proxy. Maybe that was just with systems I played with.

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Someone should go back and revisit op.

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Sam thanks for the insight. I always appreciate getting your thoughts and experiences from a manufacturer's technical side (not just some salesman that won't even acknowledge which company they work...

EnOcean has a bundle for hotel rooms, not sure which manufacturer. I have used Functional Devices EnOcean relays and door/window switches as well.

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Better idea and getting more traction than oBIX it seems. It appears to be a liteweight protocol to allow information exchange between dissimilar IOT platforms, what's not to love about it?
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Nobody?

What about at AHR show? Any vendors indicating they would be supporting MQTT?

Loytec must be doing something as they are at the forefront of the future of DDC.

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I see ALC has added MQTT support to WebCTRL. Anyone else seeing MQTT in their products or projects?

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Yep, price of fuel oil is less than electricity per btu so it runs his furnace not the heat pump.

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Not sure. I have a spare ACH550 keypad I use for startup so I don't have to go back and replace the first one. Just pop it on the configured drive upload and move on to the others to download. When I...