Star Range Digital Switching Operating Manual

Select Commuication Components

ALL STAR Controllers Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to see which services are to be enabled. There are 5 communication services with your STAR Range of controllers which is especially unique to have so many services available with digital switching and control. Note the CAN service applies to the CAN Keypads and J1939 compliant services and variations of it. NMEA is the Marine Variant of CAN and can co-exist on the same CAN network. Bother Victrons Cerbo GX and the Industry MFD’s operate on the NMEA Network In testing, all these services are enabled and the device will operate with all selected. The reason for deselecting those services you are not using for now is to increase the response time on those you do select. This is important if you have multiple STAR controllers in the system. You can always come back and enable a new service like MATTER later when you are ready. Special Note on the Matter Service. The Matter Soft- ware is already loaded in every device BUT Matter requires Blockchain encryption and this requires CPU’s loaded with a Device Certificate. Safiery will release all three controllers with Matter in Q3 2025. Shipments before then will require the prod- uct to be returned to Safiery for the Device certificate to be loaded. It can’t be done as an Over The Air Update.

Enable the Services you are using. • BLUETOOTH is needed for Switches and generally always enabled • CAN Communication - needed for CAN Keypads and Vehicle J1939 interface devices • MATTER Protocol - needed once Matter is released. It layers “over the top” of the other services. • MQTT Communication - needed for STAR-Touch AI, RANGE MASTER AI, STAR-Drive AI • NMEA 2000 needed for Victron Integration and NMEA communication

Pay attention to the “ Restart Device” which is needed after changes are made.