# BACnet points addressing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-points-addressing/103948>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [March 20, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-points-addressing/103948 "2025-03-20T13:51:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Treygar\_Garrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Treygar\_Garrett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Treygar_Garrett)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-points-addressing/103948/1 "2025-03-20T13:51:26Z")

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This is my first time working with BACnet communication. I have a Niagara JACE I am trying to read and write tags to. When I am browsing tags, I can see the folders and tag names set up in the JACE, but when I actually make a tag, the tag path goes to a generic ("AnalogValue#", AnalogInput#", or "BinaryValue#"). Is there any way to use the folder paths and tag names set up in the JACE? Or is that just how BACnet connections are in Ignition?

 ![BACnetBrowse](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/e/fe8932c13a73e92981f08f55fd07abd97ed8b861.png)  
 ![BACnetPath](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/7/076ebc3fbb8d8497ac9aec88c45a0b8a3900b263.png)

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-points-addressing/103948/2 "2025-03-20T13:56:41Z")

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The OPC Item Path will always be a generic address with a syntax specific to whatever driver the tag came from.

You should at least get whatever name the BACnet device is providing for that object as your tag name when you drag/drop it into Ignition.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-points-addressing/103948/3 "2025-03-20T13:57:36Z")

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Side note - doesn't Niagra JACE have an OPC UA server you could connect to instead? You might find the hierarchy is better preserved over OPC UA than it is over BACnet.

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**Author:** ![Treygar\_Garrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Treygar\_Garrett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Treygar_Garrett)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bacnet-points-addressing/103948/4 "2025-03-20T14:02:44Z")

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I might have to check into it. We tried using Modbus before this, but once I wrote to a PLC tag on Ignition, the PLC wasn't able to overwrite that value. We then switched to BACnet because I knew we could set writing priority. I'm used to working with Allen Bradley, so I do not have much experience with Niagara.