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106 Deploying Freely Programmable Modules on a SmartServer

FPM Deployment Overview

After you write and compile an FPM application or driver, you can deploy it on your SmartServer.

This enables you to apply the algorithms defined in the FPM application or FPM driver to the data

points on the SmartServer. Deploying an FPM application entails uploading the FPM to your

SmartServer, adding a device representing the FPM application on the SmartServer, commissioning

the FPM device if you are going to bind the data points in the FPM application with LonWorks

connections, testing the FPM application, and then connecting the data point in the FPM device with

ONWORKS connections or Web connections. Deploying an FPM driver entails just uploading the

FPM to your SmartServer.

You can upload FPMs to one or more SmartServers that have an FPM programming license installed

on them using the i.LON SmartServer 2.0 Programming Tool. After an FPM application has been

uploaded to a SmartServer, you need to verify that you have selected a network management service

mode (LNS or Standalone) for running your L

ONWORKS network.

Once you have selected a network management service, you can create an FPM device on the

SmartServer. To do this, you add a new internal device to the LON channel in the SmartServer tree.

If you are integrating your FPM application with another LNS application such as the LonMaker tool,

the internal FPM device must use a static interface. To use a static interface for your FPM, you select

the device interface (XIF) file from the root/lonworks/import/<YourCompany> folder on the

SmartServer flash disk. This is the XIF file that you generated for your FPM with the i.LON

LonWorks Interface Developer tool (see

Chapter 4 for more information on creating XIF files for

FPMs).

If you are running your network with the SmartServer operating as a standalone network manager, the

internal device can use a static or dynamic interface. To use a dynamic interface, you select the

SmartServer’s v40 XIF from the root/lonworks/import/Echelon/iLON100 folder, and you then add a

dynamic functional block to the device that uses a UFPT representing your FPM application.

If you are running your L

ONWORKS network in LNS mode (LNS Auto or LNS Manual) and you plan

on using L

ONWORKS connections to bind the data points in your FPM application with the data points

on the internal SmartServer device, on another FPM device, or on the external devices connected to the

SmartServer, you must first commission your FPM device. You can commission your FPM device

with the SmartServer or with an LNS application such as the LonMaker tool.

You can test that the FPM application is functioning properly by adding the data points declared in the

FPM device to the View – Data Points Web page. You can then change the values of the input data

points and observe whether the output data points are updated accordingly. Note that if FPM

programming is not licensed on the SmartServer, the SmartServer will not process changes made to the

FPM data points, and the FPM data points will become unavailable in the View – Data Points Web

page.

Once you verify that the FPM application is working, you can connect the data points in your FPM

application with L

ONWORKS connections or Web connections. You can then use the View – Data

Points Web page, a custom FPM configuration Web page, or an LNS application such as the

LonMaker tool to test that the connections are updating the FPM data points accordingly.

After you have deployed FPM applications on a development SmartServer, you can deploy the FPM

applications you have developed on multiple SmartServers.

Notes:

• The full version of the i.LON SmartServer 2.0 Programming Tools must be installed on your

computer to upload an FPM to a SmartServer. The full version of the i.LON SmartServer 2.0

Programming Tools is included on the i.LON SmartServer 2.0 Programming Tools DVD. To

order the i.LON SmartServer 2.0 Programming Tools DVD (Echelon part number 72111-409),

contact your Echelon sales representative.

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