How do you create programs for building automation systems?
What even is a BAS program?
Creating a BAS program is much more complex than just plopping some logic blocks on a wiresheet and calling it a day. In this episode of the building automation monthly podcast we discuss the topic of BAS programming. We will cover:
- The why question all good programmers must ask themselves
- What programming is and what it isn't
- How programming software works
- The 5 step-programming process
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Exploring the programming process
- Understanding the why behind your programming actions (1:15)
- Why your mentality determines if you can program (5:00)
- The traditional way of learning to program (5:30)
- The questions you need to ask yourself before programming (6:55)
- Is your program user dependent or user independent (9:55)
- What is programming? (12:07)
- How DDC controllers enabled us to write programs (13:00)
- Do you really understand inputs and outputs (15:50)
- How your choice of variable type will determine the safety of your programs (22:05)
- The two ways of programming BAS (25:00)
- Five steps to programming success (27:52)
- The reason you must write your boolean logic before your analog logic (30:40)
- Why following the sequence line for line is a recipe for disaster (33:55)
Resources mentioned in this episode
- Learn how to program a BAS with my new course BAS Programming Fundamentals
- The ultimate guide to programming
