AEC: How to activate a relay output using Advanced I/O

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Scenario

User needs to activate a relay when the door is held open, but they do not have an I/O board.

Solution

Create an One Shot Advance I/O event to trigger the relay output desired. See below step by step how to do it.

Create a “Criteria” specifying the event we want to use to activate the relay output

• Go to “Configuration” and then “Criteria”

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• Click the “green plus” to create a new Criteria

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• Under description assign a name
• In this example, the user only wants one door to trigger one relay, Click “Selected Devices Only”, select the desired door and add it to the “Selected Devices” column

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• Click the “Events” tab

• The user only wants the relay triggered by one specific event: “Door held open”. Click “Selected Events Only”. Add the desired event to the “List of Selected Events” column

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• If this action is desired to happen only in one specific schedule, click the “Time” tab and choose the desired schedule.
• Click Save

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Create an Advanced IO to assign the Criteria for activating the relay output

• Go to “Configuration”, and click “Advanced IO”

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• Click the “green plus” to create a new one

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• Under description assign a name for the new Advanced I/O
• The function needed is “One Shot”
• Select the output duration desired
• The “Input Control” is the criteria previously created. Click the edit button, select “Criteria” and the name assigned to the Criteria
• The “Output Link” is the relay output we want to activate. Click the edit button and select the relay output desired.
• Click the save button

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