Managing Environmental Sensors or Actuators

The PXE starts to retrieve an environmental sensor's reading and/or state and records the state transitions after the environmental sensor is managed. To control an actuator, you also need to have it managed.

The PXE device can manage a maximum of 32 environmental sensors or actuators.

When there are less than 32 managed sensors or actuators, the PXE automatically brings detected environmental sensors or actuators under management by default. You have to manually manage a sensor or actuator only when it is not under management.

Tip: You can disable the automatic management feature so that newly connected environmental sensors or actuators are NOT brought under management automatically. See Disabling the Automatic Management Function.

  1. Click Peripheral Devices in the PX Explorer pane, and the Peripheral Devices page opens in the right pane.
  2. Select the checkbox of the desired sensor or actuator on the Peripheral Devices page. To manage multiple ones, select multiple checkboxes.

    Note: To identify all detected sensors or actuators, see Identifying Environmental Sensors and Actuators.

  3. Click Manage. If you selected only one sensor or actuator, the "Manage peripheral device <serial number> (<sensor type>)" dialog appears, where <serial number> is the sensor or actuator's serial number and <sensor type> is its type.

    Note: For a sensor package with contact closure (CC) or dry contact (DC) channels, a channel number is added to the end of the <sensor type>.

  4. There are two ways to manage a sensor or actuator:
  5. Click OK. The PXE starts to display the managed sensor or actuator's reading and state.
  6. To manage additional ones, repeat Steps 2 to 5.

Note: When the total number of managed sensors and actuators reaches the maximum, you CANNOT manage additional sensors or actuators unless you remove or replace any managed ones. To remove a sensor or actuator, see Unmanaging Environmental Sensors or Actuators.

In This Section

Identifying Sensor or Actuator Channels

See Also

Environmental Sensors and Actuators

Identifying Environmental Sensors and Actuators

Configuring Environmental Sensors or Actuators

Viewing Sensor or Actuator Data

Unmanaging Environmental Sensors or Actuators

Disabling the Automatic Management Function

Controlling Actuators