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Appendix A. Glossary of PakBus Terms
Active Interface
An RF400 Series’ or MD485’s selected com port. It
could be SDC, CSDC 7, CSDC 8, Modem Enabled, or
RS-232.
Beacon
A broadcast packet intended to discover in-range
neighbor PakBus devices. Devices that receive a
beacon answer by initiating a hello-exchange with the
beaconing device if not already neighbors. A device
with neighbor filter will ignore beacons from addresses
not in their potential neighbor list unless the beacon
address is ≥ 4000.
Beacon Interval
User assigned interval between broadcast beacons.
BMP5
Block mode protocol 5. The datalogger application
layer packet protocol used in PakBus communications.
Broadcast
Sent to all PakBus devices in the network within range.
Non-CRBasic
PakBus
Datalogger
CR10X, CR510, or CR23X datalogger.
Client
The client part of the client-server architecture.
Typically, a client is an application that runs on a
personal computer that relies on a server to perform
certain operations. A PakBus example: ConnectScreen
and Setup in LoggerNet are clients to the LoggerNet
server.
Communications
Verification
Interval
The interval of time that a PakBus device uses to
determine when it’s time to send a hello message to a
neighbor to see if it can still respond and remain a
neighbor. The CVI is normally multiplied by a factor
of 2.5 for such use. CVIs are passed in hello
exchanges.
Concurrent
Communications
The ability of a PakBus datalogger to communicate
with several peripherals at the same time.
CSDC
Concurrent Synchronous Device Communications.
Clocked communications between datalogger and
addressed peripheral which can be interleaved with
communications from other addressed peripherals.
CS I/O
Campbell Scientific I/O interface. An interface with 9-
pin connector which has the appearance of a 9-pin RS-
232 interface but different line assignments and
functions.
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