KNX Utility

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The KNX Utility application provides a graphical interface to configure a KNX I/O Server. Whenever a KNX I/O Server is defined in HSYCO, the KNX Utility will appear among the applications of the manager.

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The KNX Utility in the Manager applications list.

Open the application and select the KNX I/O Server to be configured in the select field in the top-right corner. If only one KNX I/O Server is defined it will be automatically selected.

Import an ETS4 project

To import an ETS4 project, upload the .knxproj file on HSYCO server, then click on the "Import" button at the bottom of the page and enter the file name (the “.knxproj” extension can be omitted).

ETS4 project import.

The checkbox option “keep defined virtual datapoints” is needed when updating an old KNX installation to an extended one and you need to retain the previously created virtual datapoints.

This procedure will create a datapoint for each group defined in the ETS project with the corresponding DPT type and the default attributes.

Datapoints

A datapoint is the equivalent of a group of the KNX framework. New datapoints can be added employing the import procedure described above or manually, by clicking on the "+" button in the "KNX Datapoints" tab. To modify the attributes of a datapoint click on the corresponding item in the list.

Attributes

Address
this is the KXN group address corresponding to this datapoint ranging from 0/0/1 to 31/7/255. It must be unique for each defined datapoint
DPT
the DPT type (ranging from 1 to 18) used to format the datapoint value
ID
the ID to assign to the corresponding datapoint of the KNX I/O Server. It can be any unique string without spaces
Description
a textual description of the datapoint. It will be visible in the Project Editor when configuring GUI objects
Priority
KNX priority to be used when sending frames to this group (low, normal or urgent)
Read
check this option if this group
Icon
attribute for DPT 1 datapoints. It specifies the icon to be used for button objects associated to this datapoint (the values correspond to the ones used in the devices list of systemtopo.txt)
Thumbnail
attribute for DPT 1 datapoints. It can be used to optionally associate an image or a camera to the datapoint. For images, use the filename of a file located in the www/img directory. To associate a camera, the “cam:<n>” format should be used, where <n> is the camera index starting from 1, based on the order of the camera list in the settings page

Virtual datapoints