Echelon LonPoint Application and Plug-In - Manual (Page 47)

The LonPoint Application and Plug-in Guide 4-9
Heartbeats
This tab appears as follows:
This tab allows you to set properties that determine the input and output
heartbeat rates and feedback sampling. This tab contains the following fields:
Input Heartbeat This property determines the interval (in seconds) the
network variables that have the Use Heartbeat option
selected will wait for a heartbeat before detecting a
heartbeat failure. See Heartbeats, in Chapter 1, for
more information.
Use Heartbeat Specifies whether or not heartbeat checking will be
used for the selected input network variable. If
checked for a given network variable, it indicates that
heartbeat checking will be used. The maximum time
between updates for network variables with
heartbeat checking enabled is set in the Input
Heartbeat
field. Click the ALL or None button to
turn heartbeat checking On or Off for all input
network variables, respectively.
Output Heartbeat Determines the heartbeat send rate, in seconds, for
the Feedback output network variable.
Feedback Sample Determines how often the hardware digital output is
sampled for the purpose of updating the Feedback