The Schedules device extension of a BacnetDevice allows you to import one or more remote Schedule and/or Calendar objects in a BACnet device into the station as read-only Niagara schedule components. As needed, you can then use these BACnet schedules or calendars in the station.

Also, you can export any Niagara schedule component (residing anywhere in the station), into a device’s existing BACnet Schedule or Calendar object. In this case, the Niagara schedule has “supervisory control” over the remote BACnet Schedule object, essentially “swapping in” its configuration.

Both of these are “client-side operations,” in which you must select the particular BACnet device, then its specific Schedule or Calendar object that you wish to import (from) or export (to).

Do these operations using the two manager views on a BacnetDevice’s Schedules extension:

A BACnet device must contain a Schedule object or Calendar object to make use of these functions. Sometimes, a BACnet device may have neither type of object. A Discover command in either schedule manager view will determine this—if no Schedule or Calendar objects are found, that BacnetDevice’s Schedules extension has no practical application.