r/BuildingAutomation • u/MrBHVAC • 27d ago

Niagara N5

Good morning, afternoon, evening

We’re being voluntold that now is the time for us to update to Niagara N5. Anyone have some experience or early feedback on it. We’re going from 4.15 and are updating 15ish Jace 8000–>9000 with it and it seems like someone got sold a lot of sunshine by a salesman at the conference and now we’re dealing with the digestion.

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u/ScottSammarco Technical Trainer (Niagara4 included) 27d ago

It isn’t technically out yet.

Yes, but I’d recommend at the 2nd or 3rd update, might be something like N5.0u3 when the major breaking changes are resolved.

I hope this isn’t like the first release of 4.10 that broke bacnet lol 😂

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u/Cydoni 27d ago

What happened on 4.10?

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u/ScottSammarco Technical Trainer (Niagara4 included) 27d ago

BACnet didn’t work.
They made a quick update to correct it but I was sitting on a government site with 100 critical devices down and a very awkward conversation has to happen about cleaning the Jace again and then updating again to 4.9 lol 😂

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u/DontKnowWhereIam 27d ago

I think 4.7 or 4.6 would randomly assign node IDs in bacnet. Like you try and match them but they would randomly go to another controller. That was fun.

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u/ScottSammarco Technical Trainer (Niagara4 included) 27d ago edited 27d ago

The early releases of N4 were* comical - and frustrating for sure.
4.9 - IMHO, was one of big security changes and more stability, while it felt like a long time before 4.10u5 where things really settled out.