Error View on BacnetSpyder Device

This view displays all the errors generated by the Honeywell Spyder controller. There are 7 categories of errors:

Note: The S-BUS WM Communication Alarm and the S-BUS WM Fail Detect Alarms are shown only for:

To view the Error View of a controller, right-click the Device Name in the Nav palette and select Views > Error View. The Error view is displayed on the right half of the screen. This view is static and you must refresh the view to get the latest update.

Error Objects

The Honeywell Spyder tool provides 248 error bits which indicates errors. Spyder Bacnet supports the 16 error objects, AV_Error0 to AV_Error15. Each error object is 16-bit long except for the 16th Error Object(AV_Error15) which is 8-bit long.

To access the error objects:

  1. Expand the Bacnet device on the Nav sidebar.
  2. Right-click Points and select Bacnet Spyder Point Manager.
    The Point Manager view appears on the right pane.
  3. Click the Discover button to discover all the points on the device.
    The points are listed under Discovered on the screen.
  4. Click the Add button  to add the points to the database.

There are 7 categories of alarms:

Alarm Type Description
Sensor Alarms Generated for all sensors configured in the logic. All input blocks assigned to pins UI0 to UI6 are listed in this category.
On detection of an error on modulating inputs, the Bacnet Spyder models fill a number between 0 and 7.
Invalid Configuration Alarm Occurs if there is an error in the configuration that was downloaded.
Control Alarms All the alarm blocks configured in the logic are listed in this category. If an alarm block does not have any incoming link then the status is always NORMAL.You may define up to 32 input objects with fail detect.
On detection of an error condition, the BacnetSpyder models fill a number between 16 and 47.
Network Communication Alarms Occur ONLY for object inputs configured as fail detect. The network variable or object input names are listed in this category.You may define up to 32 alarm function blocks.
On detection of an error condition, the BacnetSpyder models fill a number between 48 and 197.
S-BUS WM Communication Alarm These alarms occur when there is a communication break between the device and the wall module.
S-BUS WM Fail Detect Alarms These alarms occur for the linked outputs of the SBusWallmodule. All the linked outputs are listed in this category. You may define up to 168 alarm function blocks.
On detection of an alarm condition, the BacnetSpyder models fill a number between 198 and 247.
Control execution alarm Shown only for LonSpyder Relay and Spyder Bacnet Relay models. This alarm is reported if the execution of application takes more than one second per cycle. As Spyder Relay models support more resources, execution time can exceed 1 second per cycle. This alarm is reported in such cases.

To view the Error View of a controller, right-click the Device Name in the Nav palette and select Views > Error View. The Error view is displayed on the right half of the screen. This view is static and you must refresh the view to get the latest update.

The following table indicates the bit positions and the alarms they are used to represent:

Bit Position Alarm Type Description
0 Sensor Alarm The on-board pressure sensor is open or shorted.
1 Sensor Alarm Universal Input 1 exceeds the user defined range, that is, it is open or shorted.
2 Sensor Alarm Universal Input 2 exceeds the user defined range
3 Sensor Alarm Universal Input 3 exceeds the user defined range
4 Sensor Alarm Universal Input 4 exceeds the user defined range
5 Sensor Alarm Universal Input 5 exceeds the user defined range
6 Sensor Alarm Universal Input 6 exceeds the user defined range
7 Sensor Alarm Universal Input 7 exceeds the user defined range
8 Invalid Configuration Alarm The configuration downloaded to the controller is illegal. One or more file sections have a CRC error
9 S-BUS WM Communication Alarm The input to the S-Bus Wallmodule represented by this bit is not being received from the controller output
10-15 No mapping The on-board thermistor is open or shorted
16-47 Control Alarm The alarm function block reporting the alarm represented by this bit.
48-197 Network Communication Alarm The input network variable represented by this bit is not being received within the fail detect time.
198-247 S-BUS WM Fail Detect Alarms The output of the S-Bus Wallmodule represented by this bit is not being received within the fail detect time.

Note: UI 0 is displayed only for models that support UI 0. UI 7 is not shown on the Error View.