# BACnet Devices Initialized but most of the tags show bad quality (Not connected)

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80, ignition81\
**Created:** [March 30, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-devices-initialized-but-most-of-the-tags-show-bad-quality-not-connected/45038 "2021-03-30T03:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steve\_Laubach](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/steve_laubach/32/60900_2.png) [@Steve\_Laubach](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Steve_Laubach)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-devices-initialized-but-most-of-the-tags-show-bad-quality-not-connected/45038/6 "2022-05-09T15:55:18Z")

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Did your devices power cycle after you configured your devices? This thread might be helpful.

> [@\[BUG\] - BACNET BUG?, regarding power-outage](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-bacnet-bug-regarding-power-outage/40345/3):
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> Haven’t got any fix or response to this. I ended up ditching Bacnet, and do polling on the data via XML api.

I am currently dealing with a similar issue but I am still coordinating a time to test various things without impacting the customer so I can only point you to this.

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