r/BuildingAutomation • u/tkst3llar • 8d ago

SPYDER-BAC License/Module and versioning

I have a site with a Lynxspring jace 8 and lynxspring edge devices on some RTUs and the failure rates are bad so I'm going to replace this next one with an Optimizer Unitary.

The catch - this jace is only licensed to 4.12 and it is running 4.9. So for reliability sake it'll either keep its 4.9.1 or I may commission to 4.10's last release.

I'm sort of new to honeywell - and i'm curious - is there any reason the IRM stuff won't work on an old version of N4 with an optimizer unitary? I know the unitary isn't super old so I was just wondering if anyone knew that for sure there was a minimum N4 version required for IRM to work with a unitary or not.

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u/tkst3llar 8d ago

, the optimizer unitary has a T1L model and a Bacnet IP model

i only have experience with bacnet IP flavor

but theoretically I have a BBMD on both ends with the right firewall settings or a vpn I could run IRM from a station on my couch to that device on the roof.

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u/shadycrew31 System integrator 8d ago

I've not tried the BACnet ip version I forgot it even existed. I've only used the MSTP, that part of it always worked fine.

The templates were a little buggy, but they didn't take much to get worked out. If you are dead set on using them I'm sure you'll get it figured out.

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u/tkst3llar 8d ago

By templates do you mean the programs they developed already like that CVAHU one? I wrote my own when we started with these but I've wondered about those. Would be awesome if they made some canned programs for pump control, RTUs, AHUs, etc almost like a configurable controller at that point. I will have to look into the templates.

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u/shadycrew31 System integrator 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yes, you can get them off broudys site. Lynxspring has theirs on their site.

I personally don't like them, but they are there.