Error Reason 6 when I use bacnet write command to overwrite present value of analog value. Any idea how to fix the problem? Thanks in advance

Is that a Bacnet error? If so then you need someone who knows about Bacnet rather than node-red.

Hi SJPKT Did you have any luck with this? I am having the same issue

Nope, I don't have any luck with node red barnet IP. I decided to use another software. Good luck tho!

I did get the same error message when trying to write to our BACnet controllers. I did a WireShark capture and what I see is that the BACnet write node sends commands with a priority "0" which is rejected by our controller with an "parameter-out-of-range (6)" error message. Now according to the BACn…

This is down to the contrib node, check the issues on the nodes github page, if it’s not there open an issue.

I did some more digging through the js bacstack used for these nodes and I found the syntax to set priority. It is an option parameter and when I added it to my message object I was able to write successfully to our controllers in my lab. I used the following object to pump into the BACnet write …

As previously suggested - please contact the author and ask them to either add docs to show these options (either in README or in the info side bar panel) - or indeed to make it settable via the config panel.

I will try to figure out how to get it to the right person. I am not a programmer and pretty new to node-red but work with BACnet every day here at work. I can help with the feature documentation and usability, that is what I am doing for living.

Ah right - it's probably this node ? https://github.com/BiancoRoyal/node-red-contrib-bacnet Sadly the author of those nodes has had to step away so yeah - maybe not.

Yes that's it but it links to a company not a person and I did not see activity for the last 18 month. This is a great start for a great package and hopefully someone will continue the work. I am not a coder just an applications engineer but I could help in writing specs and or testing. I have a rel…

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