| Babel Buster X2 |
| This set of pages will provide a brief overview of configuring the Babel Buster X2. Its web interface will be familiar to anyone using other Control Solutions embedded web servers. This quick tutorial just covers the features unique to configuring LonWorks devices on the X2. |
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| The original Babel Buster X2 had some specific applications in a more industrial market. As such, its LonWorks support focused on sensors and simple data objects. The growing use of Modbus as a building automation protocol led to demand for support of more complex LonWorks data such as the HVAC structured network variables. Support of structures has been greatly enhanced in version 2.81. |
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Crash Course on Configuring the Babel Buster X2
Version v2.81 of the Babel Buster X2 supports structured SNVT's. When an XIF file is imported which includes structures, the total "NV count" is really a count of data fields in the NV's. The example below, showing a Trane chiller, has a total of 119 data fields that can potentially be mapped to Modbus registers.
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| Structured SNVT's will show up as a series of Raw NV's, consisting of the various fields of the structure broken down into their component parts. The item at NV index 31 in the example below is a SNVT_chlr_status type variable.
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| You may click on the NV index, which is a link, to look at the details of any NV on the list above. Clicking on the instance of "31" in front of "nvoChillerStat.Limited" brings us to the page shown below. The Group check box means this entry in the list is a member of a structure that must be read along with its other members.
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