Send CBUS to CNI from NAC

Hi, trying to find the best way to send ON OFF commands to a CNI from a NAC.

We have an existing project that has 1 small remote building which has a 4 channel relay and 1 CNI. And I want to be able to switch 2 channels only.

It use be controlled via Schedule Plus, but we are moving everything onto a NAC, but that's in the main building far away from the CNI module.

Any ideas.

 

The only way to send ON/OFF commands to a CNI is via the serial protocol which is freely available with examples. Simply define the 4 strings (On and OFF for both ga's), make a TCP connection to the CNI and send the appropriate string.

 

Hi Ashley,
I am also looking for this functionality, but not via the serial protocol.
In December 2017, I was given a roadmap of development, which indicated that C-Bus over IP functionality would have been available by August 2018. I understand that a roadmap is not exact, but an updated timeline would be appreciated. View attachment 2375

 

Can't help you there (I don't work for Clipsal/Schneider), but seeing that the Dec/Jan updates didn't come out until September, and we haven't seen the April ones yet it's not going to happen in the near future. Happy to be proven wrong though

 

Hi Nick,
I have older (2 years+) sites where networks are connected via CNI's to S+. In order to connect these to SBO we installed C-Bus OPC and made points available via a BACnet OPC client. This worked successfully, but is not as robust as I would like.
On newer sites we install NAC's instead of CNI's from the start and make the points available per network.

I would like to change the existing (older) sites, by replacing one CNI with a NAC and expose all the points from all networks to SBO through this one device.