BACnet Integration using object names only

Tridium Niagara
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Is there anyway in N4.15 to integrate to bacnet points from lets say a Distech ECY-S1000 into a JACE-9000 by only using the bacnet object name? We want to make a template using just object names for integration and not using object id#'s.

In my red arrow below that field only accepts numeric values and not any other character…

Can this be done by creating a normal point and adding bacnet slots to its proxy ext?

When i used to work for ALC we could map points with their object id #, name , or even the HEX value… The intent being we didnt care about the object #’s as long as they were unique but could reuse the program/template anywhere.

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I have to ask, why wouldn’t you use the same object ID’s for the same equipment?

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I’m with Charles on this… would be way easier and makes more sense.

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Because the gfx programs are slightly different so we don’t want to use slightly different templates at the Niagara level as well… we want 1 template that’s one size fits all…

Where we don’t need to worry about the order of AV#s or whether they exist or not…

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That’s not a thing in Niagara.

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Meaning they don’t officially support object names instead of object IDs? In regard to integration.

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When you discover objects it brings in the object name and ID together. It takes the BACnet info and packages it into the proxy extension.

So if you want a template, they need to match. No way around that.

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Dang that’s undesirable

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If this is templating your dealing with, you may want to look into tagging you points.