Get Code Axcent 3 Controller

You can retrieve Axcent code in Studio. Grabbing Axcess will work, but it's not necessary. It's simpler, but you might not want to dwnload, install, and all else just for this operation.

In Studio, first go to the communications settings and set the default to Axcess master, and serial port (as per your computer). This is necessary - since you are downloading an unknown file, none of the workspace settings will apply. Downloads always use the default. Open up your file transfer dialog, and click the Receive tab. Click the Add button. Select the Axcess Source Code, and yet anotherAdd button will appear; click that and enter the path and file name you want to save it under. Go back to the main transfer dialog (it may go by itself, I forget now), and hit the Receive button and if there is a source code saved on the Axcent, it will download to the file you specified.

As Joel mentioned though, there isn't necessarily any source on the master. It's an option chosen when the code is loaded (and I don't think it's active by default). Also, there was a limited amount of memory on those boxes, and if your code got too big, yoiu had no room to store the source as well and were forced to turn it off.

NMarkRoberts wrote:

I just installed NS2.5 which was released on 1st August and the readme says:

BUG FIX - Unable to upload source code from an Axcent3 master.

It must have been a pretty obscure bug, because I have done it many times. I always grab the source from an Axcent, because we have had 3-4 people capable of programming them, and I can never be sure my local copy is up-to-date. I haven't paid much attention to what version of Studio I have used, but I never had a problem either. Whatever the bug was, they apparently fixed it, and it clearly was not a universal issue.