HoneywellGalaxy Driver - The HoneywellGalaxyDevice

Overview

A HoneywellGalaxyDevice represents a single Honeywell Galaxy Device.

The device is a frozen property on either a HoneywellGalaxyEthernetNetwork or a HoneywellGalaxySerialNetwork object.

Points Folder

The points folder is used to hold points for the device. Use the standard point discovery mechanism to discover and add points to the station.

Panel Folder

The panel folder is used hold properties that are specific to a panel such as the remote services pin, panel version, time and date, and user profiles.

Device Level Actions

A number of protocol commands exist that do not map cleanly onto the idea of a Point. These are implemented as Device Level Actions instead.

There are a number device level actions implemented by this driver:

  1. Ping can be used to determine if a device is online or offline. Ping is implemented using the PIN command to logon to the device. The driver framework pings each device by default every five minutes. You can change the ping interval by adjusting properties at the Network level. If you want to ping a device immediately the right click on the device and select Actions->Ping from the contect menu. The device will be coloured white if it is online, otherwise it will be coloured yellow if it did not reply to the command.
  2. Read Panel Version Action can be used to read the version string from the panel. NOTE: some earlier ethernet boards do not support this command, in which case the version string will be set to Command Failed.
  3. Read Time and Date Action can be used to read the current time and date from the panel. This action is automatically performed whenever the ping action is invoked.
  4. Set Time and Date Action can be used to set the time and date on the panel to match the system time and date on the Niagara platform.
  5. Set All Groups Action can be used to Unset, Set, Part Set, System Reset, Abort Set or Force Set the panel.
  6. Read User Profile Action can be used to read user profiles from the panel to allow them to be studied or edited.

  7. Device Level Actions