1 MVP-8400 Controlling 4 seperate Netlinx controllers

d_gavin

Is there anyway to make an MVP-8400 control 4 different Netlinx controllers without using a master Netlinx to do it? There will be a room selection page to select which room you are using, so from that button push can you select the panel to connect to any of the Netlinx controllers?

Cheers,

Jimweir192

Just use Master to Master with the 4 Masters, and assign the 8400 to a single system but list it in each master's define_device

#Master System 1
dvTP = 10001:1:1

#Master System 2
dvTP = 10001:1:1

#Master System 3
dvTP = 10001:1:1

#Master System 4
dvTP = 10001:1:1

Remember you only need to place the IP addresses for Master 2,3,&4 in the URL list of Master 1.

There are many ways to deal with the code, but the easiest will be an array.

HTH

DHawthorne

Something interesting I learned the hard way when you do this: remote devices are treated like virtuals on the local master. That means system 2, when you define a panel as residing on system one, creates a virtual panel and links the real device on system 1 to that virtual. This causes the remote panel to inherit the limits of a virtual device, and the one that got me was levels ... it only recognized the first 8 levels until I ran a SET_VIRTUAL_LEVEL_COUNT against it. So if your design has a lot of channels, ports, or levels, you might need to set the virtual counts on the remote masters.