Specifications

210 Module 131: Hardware Programming | Programming a Controller
 This sends a message to the Controller to tell it to take this message off its Health Status list
 The next time we open the Health Status window, the message will have been cleared. Note also that the
number under Health has now reduced.
Enabling the Onboard Reader Expander
Our Reader expanders are currently showing as offline for two reasons. Firstly, the Controller by default does
not have its onboard reader expander enabled. Secondly, our RDM2 doesn't have a valid address configured
yet.
To enable the Controller onboard reader expander, select the Configuration tab of the Controller and set the
following two options:
This instructs the Controller to set the address of its onboard reader expander to address 1. It also tells it to use
Outputs 3 and 4 as lock outputs. When using a PCB Controller, you may wish to use outputs 1 and 2 (the
powered bell outputs) instead.
Downloading Programming Changes
We've just made some programming changes that need to be downloaded to the Controller. The Download
Server will discover these changes next time it checks, which may not be for another 60 seconds.
While we are doing our initial programming and testing, we can tell the Download Server to check this more
often. This is done by setting the Download Retry Delay in the Configuration tab of the Controller. Set this now
to 1 second.
This tells the download server to check the Controllers configuration every second. We will reduce this while we
are doing our initial programming, but set this back when we have finished.
We can also force the Download Server to download the configuration at any time, by right clicking the
Controller and selecting Force Download.
Try this now.