unless i have had a successful experience with a particular manufacturers gateway, i plan for and price a controller for each piece of equipment.
I have burned too many hours dealing with gateways that are not reliable or that i simply can not get to work as expected.
I just finished a job that had 2 JCI rtu's with bacnet interfaces. I haven't had any problems with them yet.
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use your head for something other than a hat rack.......Gerry
We have freedom because somebody fought for it.
We keep it because we are willing to fight for it.
We lose it because we are not willing to fight for it.