Installation

Important: nE² controllers must be integrated into a Niagara station to allow programming, commissioning, or access to their datapoints. The Tridium standard BACnet or ModBus drivers can be used for that. Niagara workbench will never directly access the controllers, but go through the Niagara station.

The station can run locally on the same PC workbench is running. This is the recommended scenario for programming, because the PC has elevated processing power and memory. The station can alternatively run on a MAC36 or Jace. Because of the limited processing power of embedded devices, you will need to accept slower response times in that case.

Note:    The steps described in the following chapters are only required if you want to program or commission nE² controllers using Niagara. If you program nE² controllers through another tool, e.g. the iCTool from iSMA Controlli, and you just want to integrate information e.g. from points into Niagara, the steps are not required. You can integrate the controllers' points through the standard Niagara BACnet or ModBus drivers, provided they are exposed on BACnet or ModBus by the nE² controller. Over BACnet, you can also edit the nE² schedules in Niagara

Follow the steps in the following chapters to enable Niagara for programming the nE² controllers.