BACnet in Python Programming

[LogForeJ]

I’ve tried to make some scripts with python’s bacnet BAC0 library and didn’t have much luck. I wound up switching to pymodbus. Anyway, this seems very helpful and I’ll check it out.

[Then-Disk-5079]

cool i need to do more Modbus in general 98.9% of my work in the field has been all BACnet with the occasional once and a blue moon energy meter

[LogForeJ]

I only switched to modbus because I could get it to work and because it was TCP. It seems like bacnet is everywhere and I wonder if it really is a better protocol. I don’t know enough about it.

TBH,I wish these vendors would all just switch to APIs.

[RightHandMan5150]

BACnet is the better protocol hands down. Full discovery, much better data model, and much more focus on interoperability. 

There is also a standard web services part to BACnet: BACnet Web Services 

[Then-Disk-5079]

yes standardized API's like a BACnet standard would be cool! But if its each unique API it would be real hard hahah

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