Event Report: International ETS5 Premiere Conference for Training Centres
By Rafal Borek, Home of Technologies. Portugal is renowned for its weather, wine and food, and now, thanks to our host KNX Portugal, and the excellent college facilities at the ATEC training academy in Lisbon for anyone interested in KNX and building automation, I have even more good impressions of the country. The conference to […]
Dr KNX: Using a KNX USB Interface with Windows 8.1
By Dr KNX. Dear KNXer, The update from Windows 8.0 to 8.1 saw a ‘USB Sleep Mode’ feature added in order to save energy. Unfortunately KNX devices do not support this feature yet, and are therefore simply switched off by Windows 8.1. The only workaround is to switch this newly-introduced ‘USB Sleep Mode’ feature off. […]
Case Study: KNX Installation in Rural Residential Property, Northumberland, UK
By Rachel Wilkinson, My KNX Store. The project involved an extensive refurbishment and extension of a rural residential property in Northumberland, UK. The whole project took 18 months, with the home control installation being carried out between January and December 2012. The architect for the project was Nicholson Nairn, who worked closely with My KNX […]
ise Announces its smart connect KNX Programmable Device
From electric meter to heater: in a straight forward manner, Programmable brings together KNX and devices which were not previously compatible. The development of individual integration logic only takes a few days, so there has never been a lower threshold into the world of building automation. Third party devices can be easily and reliably connected […]
Weinzierl Offers the KNX IP Router 750
The KNX IP Router forwards telegrams between different lines via LAN (IP) as a fast backbone. With it this device compensates the EIB/KNX line coupler. The KNX IP Router can also be used in ETS3 and ETS4 as a programming interface. There are two ways to assign an IP-address, get the IP-address from a DHCP-server […]
Solutions: KNX in a BMS World
By Sophie Thomas, Ivory Egg. We have been trying to control our built environment since at least 270BCE, when the first automatic control system device, a water clock, was invented. The first HVAC-related system came about in the 1700s through Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur’s scale thermometer and his ideas on temperature control of incubators based […]
Dr KNX: Opening the ETS4 Database
By Dr KNX. Dear KNXer, KNX Association chose the Microsoft SQL Server as the database engine for ETS4 because this meant that they did not need to develop a proprietary database engine from scratch. There are, however, some consequences of this approach, such as not being able to just move ETS4 database files, not even […]
Solutions: HVAC – We Need a Holistic Approach
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. It seems a bit odd writing about heating systems at the start of spring, but unfortunately, the specification of control systems doesn’t follow a seasonal pattern. In fact it is probably a good time to reflect on the last few months, as it has been a very odd winter in […]
Best Practice: Project Files and Ownership
By Simon Buddle, KNXtoday. I’ve spent many years working in the AV and control systems industry, and for a number of those years I had my head buried deep in a laptop with noughts and ones flying past my ears all day. Ah those halcyon days, donning the wizard’s hat and entering the dark and […]
Dr KNX: ETS4 User Interface Questions
By Dr KNX. Dear KNXers, I am sure that by now you have heard the news about the forthcoming new-generation ETS5 software. Well this is not planned to be available until October 2014. In the meantime, many of you are still getting to know ETS4, so this month I will deal with a number of […]