Trade Talk: Giving the Right Feedback Saves Time and Trouble
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Feedback takes many forms, from the HR (Human Resources) interview or personal appraisal (urgh – not my cup of tea), to the nostalgic car driver who loves the feedback they get from the road through the steering wheel of a old car. The feedback one gets, in this instance, […]
Trade Talk: The Effect of ETS Inside on the Smart Home Market
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. My dad has long since retired, but during his working life – all of it – he drove lorries. He drove them to Scotland, London, Spain, Iraq and just about every other place in between. In the school holidays, I’d often go with him. We’d take fruit and vegetables […]
CD Innovation Offers KNX to RTI Gateway Using Maestro Server
CD Innovation is happy to announce that RTI Controllers utilizing Maestro Server as KNX gateway can dramatically enhance the efficiency of KNX to RTI integration. Using Maestro enables importing the complete KNX project from ETS to the RTI in less than a minute! Maestro’s new RTI driver-generator saves integrator’s time spent on manual manipulation of […]
Avnet Silica Introduces KNX Comms Stack for Infineon XMC Microcontrollers for Home and Building Automation Systems
Availability of new KNX communication protocol stack – implemented for Infineon XMC™ family microcontrollers – can significantly reduce development time for customers Avnet Silica, an Avnet company (NYSE: AVT), today announced availability of a communication protocol stack, implemented in firmware, for the KNX standard for the application development of home and building systems. Designed to […]
KNX Association Announces Free ETS5 Supplementary When You Order ETS5 Pro in May
When ordering a new ETS5 Professional license (€1000), just add one ETS5 Supplementary in your order and you will get the supplementary key for free. Conditions You must buy IN THE SAME ORDER: one new ETS5 Professional (€1000) + one ETS5 Supplementary (€150) Not valid for upgrades of ETS This offer can not be combined […]
Trade Talk: Getting Involved with Heating Plant – is it any of our business?
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. It is once more the turning of the season’s tides. The long grey is finally giving up and the days are, at last, beginning to brighten and lengthen. And with it comes the day-by-day rise in ambient air temperature, solar gain and sudden and often dramatic temperature drops late […]
Tips: Blind Control
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. The change of seasons is a timely reminder of how much the external environment impacts on the internal spaces we live and work. It could be returning home to a dark house because the days are shorter, the sudden return of glare on your computer screen or the joy of […]
Hands On: Retrofitting a Home with KNX
By Paul Foulkes, EchoHouse Energy. Just before Christmas in 2015, the family and I moved house. The building we purchased required a lot of work – we knew this from the beginning, but it had a great ‘footprint’ and would become a wonderful home. The need for this work gave me an ideal opportunity to […]
Profile: Rafal Borek, Home of Technologies
By Yasmin Hashmi, KNXtoday. Rafal Borek is the director of Home of Technologies (HoT), a value-added distributor of electrical and engineering components with a focus on building and home automation. He is a KNX and PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) solutions expert and head teacher at the HoT training centre, and his main focus is to […]
KNX Association Announces ETS4/ETS5 Lite Update to ETS5 Pro Special Offer for April
Special offer for ETS4/ETS5 Lite to ETS5 Professional update until 30/04/2017 Buy the update from ETS4/ETS5 Lite to ETS5 Professional and receive a reduction of 27% on the regular upgrade price. Conditions: update from ETS4/ETS5 Lite to ETS5 Professional this offer is NOT valid for ETS Supplementary licenses This offer cannot be combined with other […]