User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome
- Audience
- Related Documentation
- FCC Compliance
- RF Statements
- Introduction
- Installation for the Street Lighting Solution
- Setting Up the Segment Controller
- Planning for the Street Lighting Solution
- Managing a Street Lighting Network
- Controlling a Street Lighting Network
- Interoperable Interface for the Street Light Bridge
- Cryptography License
- Glossary
Street Light Bridge Integrator’s Guide 29
• Network cannot have a router attached to the channel.
• Network does not use LNS management.
• Devices cannot be configured with LNS Plug-ins
• Network cannot be connected to any other network management tool
through the network interface or remote network interface.
• L
ONWORKS network variable connections are not supported. A network
in standalone mode functions strictly as a master-slave system. This
differs from the standard LNS mode in which the devices attached to the
SmartServer’s channel can communicate with each other and the
SmartServer in a peer-to-peer manner.
Configuring the LonWorks Channel for Power
Line Repeating
For a power line repeating network, the LON channel attached to the
SmartServer must be configured as a PL-20C or a PL-20N channel and repeating
must be enabled on the channel. To configure the channel, perform the following
steps:
1. Expand the Net network, and then click the LON channel to display the
Lon Network Property page.
2. From the Setup tab, select the PL-20C, PL-20N, or other appropriate
channel type from the Channel Type dropdown listbox.
Important: The channel type that you select must match the channel
type required by local regulations for the area of device deployment. The
channel type must also match the channel settings for all devices that
will participate in power line communications with the Segment
Controller.
3. Select the Repeating checkbox to enable repeating on the channel.
4. If a network message fails, a data point and its device are marked offline.
You can select the Use Minimal Offline Time checkbox so that all the
data points on the offline device with pending network messages
(read/write requests, polls, or heartbeats) are marked offline and network
messages are not sent to them. Thus, network performance is not
impacted by an offline device.
You can also set the minimum period of time (in seconds) that the
SmartServer waits before transmitting network messages to offline data
points. During this period, an offline device transmits an OFFLINE