Siemens Vanderbilt Edp

Siemens / Vanderbilt is a family of security panels compatible with the control protocol EDP. This driver has been developed following the EDP protocol specification rev 2.2, 2012-11-12

The integration with HSYCO can be accomplished with a TCP/IP network connection.

Siemens / Vanderbilt Configuration

Login in the panel web configuration page using a Engineer account.

You should see something like this in the upper right corner of the web page:

Select "Configuration" then "Reporting" then "EDP". You must configure 2 different receivers, one for the command session, one for the event session.

Let's take a look in detail at the configuration of these receivers. The events receiver is configured as "Primary receiver".

Unflag "Primary receiver" for the command receiver. The "IP port" parameter must be different from the one of the event receiver. Set the "Receiver Id" to 1.

Flag "Always connected" on both the receivers. Select protocol version 2 on both. The "Receiver IP Address" is the IP address of the HSYCO server that you want to communicate with. Set the "Receiver Id" to 2.

The "Polling Time" is a very crucial parameter. In the event receiver configuration 8 seconds should be fine because every change of status is sent in asynchronous way by the panel and the polling time only represent the interval between one polling ack and the next one. In the command receiver configuration set 2 seconds, this time, by empirical methods, it's the best one to ensure the connection stability.

HSYCO Configuration

Add a SIEMENS EDP TCP I/O Server in the I/O Servers section of the Settings and set its parameters:

Communication

• IP Address: Leave empty
• IP Port: Leave empty

High Availability

• Shutdown when inactive: defaults to true.

Options

ID	Default	Values	Description
eventsport	50000	number	the TCP/IP port specified in the event receiver of the panel
commandsport	50001	number	the TCP/IP port specified in the command receiver of the panel
eventsaddress	1	number	the event receiver id address
commandsaddress	2	number	the command receiver id address
startupevents	true	true	generate IO events also during the driver’s start-up phase
		false	start generating events only after HSYCO is aligned with the current status of the system
gui	true	true	generate uisets
		false	disable uisets
eventspolling	8000	number	the event receiver polling time in ms
commandspolling	2000	number	the command receiver polling time in ms

Datapoints

ID	Value	R/W	Description
connection	online	R	connection established
	offline	R	connection failed
log0	<text>	R	latest line of the security log when a new entry is added
last.message.frame	<text>	R	last message frame (hex) received from the panel
a<n>.mode.cmd.unset	1	W	disarmed area <n>
	0	W	arm area <n>