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1. 1 Send Data living floor 2 Send Data living central Set Value to gt 50 3 Send Data Set base temperature Set Value to gt 21 4 Send Data wing central 5 spots Set Value to 0 k ThWh I rm Try HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 28 10 3 1 1 ON OFF devices you have the choice between Toggle value ifON send OFF ifOFF send ON Set Value to 1 ON Set Value to 0 OFF 10 3 1 2 Value percentage devices you have the choice between Set Value to For percentages 0 100 for values 0 255 Increase value with example 15 Decrease value with 10 3 1 3 Temperatures Set Value to A temperature in degrees Celsius Increase value with example 0 1 Decrease value with If you want to add all devices from one group or one subgroup automatically to your action list select the group subgroup in the popup list Lighting garage cellar celler stairhall office general hall wall outside side D outside terras outside garage office 1 office 2 outside side F office 3 outside main door night lights living floor dinina cnn te The Editor will ask you to confirm if you want to add all the devices it contains 8000 Are you sure you want to add 54 actions Wom ves HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 29 and the resul
2. Format C 21 C A Actions Lighting Temperature 7 Heating Ground Floor A i T e zone living actual temp basic temperature set F 4 N A s r a konnex mode set is konnex mode override S Value valve a asked value read status valve ventilator convector zone keuken zone wasplaats zone inkom We are amost there We sill need to attach the correct action to the and the button We want to increase decrease the base temperature with 0 1 degrees To do this we HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 81 first need to create 2 action lists Go to the ActionLists section and create a main group e g temperatures Select that main group and add an action list Give it a proper name e g increase temperature Living and add one entry in the action list y Temperature Action List Name Living Up Kitchen UP Kitchen DOWN Action Which What Value F 1 Send Data basic temperature set Increase value with 110 1 Living DOWN p Bureel UP Bureel Down Hall Uo Select Send Data as action and select the base temperature parameter from the correct room in the Which column In the What column select the increase value and enter the amount to increase in the Value column Do exactly the same to create an action list to decrease the temperature Now go back to edit mode and select one of the buttons In the Actions sect
3. 11 1 3 General shortcuts meta Y meta A meta D meta 3 meta 4 meta G meta S meta Z meta shift Z meta C meta X meta V meta N toggle technical preview mode Select all objects on Page Deselect all selected objects hide the selected objects unhide show all objects Hide show grid Save your project Undo last change Redo last undo Copy Selected objects Cut selected objects Paste Hide Show KNX addresses In text edit tool meta A meta D meta C meta X meta V Select the complete text Deselect all text Copy Selected text Cut selected text Paste text in Path edit tool meta A HomeSoft Editor Manual Select all the path points KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 3 2 11 2 Contextual menu Right click inside selected object to get extra options Hide selection Move selection back and forward 11 3 Object Types Wehave 6 different types of objects we can place on the project pages 11 3 1 Graphic Objects A graphic object is a path which can contain a fill color aborder size aborder color lines curves holes Example 11 3 2 Text objects There are 2 types of text objects e Static text Contains text that you define and that does not change Dynamic text a text object can be linked to a device value e g dimmer percentage or system parameter e g the current time When the device value or a parameter chan
4. Select a device in the device tree list For ON OFF devices use the toggle button to switch the device on or off For Value and Percentages using the toggle button will toggle between the minimum and the maximum value For all object types you can also fill in the value you want to send and press the Send Data button Ifthe type is a percentage enter values from 0 to 100 if the type is a value enter values between 0 and 255 if the type is a temperature enter degrees in Celsius HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 18 8 Create your project pages Go to the Project section a Devices Icons ActionLists Edit Execute In this section you can define your project parameters The most important part to start making your projects is the Pages Section 8 1 Page Parameters Depending on the type of project you make for Mac Windows iPad iPhone you should create some pages with the correct size for your viewer Most page sizes are predefined but you can always specify a custom size Use the and buttons to add or delete pages in the project pages list When the pages list is modified The page popup in the bottom status bar is automatically updated The goto page activities in the edit window see further are automatically updated Create add a few blank pages with the
5. gt Shutters Multimedia IR Y System Parameters y Date Time ww Date OOOO OOOO Time Weather gt System Actions Format Short Date Extended Mon 30 Apr 11 You can also create a dynamic text object by generating a normal text object with the text creation tool first Select the text object and then double click on an action in the list to link the address to the text object resulting in a dynamic text object HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 60 12 Test execute your project You can immediately test out your created project in the Execute Mode Go to the Execute section Itisrecommended that you have an active KNX Connection or you will not be able to execute any KNX actions HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 61 13 Transfer your project to the Viewer In the HomesSoft Editor Go to the Transfer tab in the preferences or click on the Transfer Icon in the bottom right of your screen transfer ka Ls And press the Start Button Preferences General KNX Connection Transfer Weather Send Current Project to viewer Start Transfer Status Waiting for connection Cancel OK In any HomeSoft Viewer Go to the settings and Press the Download New Project Carrier gt 10 56 PM HomeSoft Viewer Settings Connections 00 00 00 00 00 00 192 168
6. HomesSoft Editor User Manual S 1 INTRODUCTION BEFORE YOU SIART uu uu ad uyasapa 6 22 GENERAL INEORMATION uL Lu uW A dd daa aida Tugas 7 Zola SUPPORTED IMAGE FORMA TS a iba 7 2 2 SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS 0 id iii 7 Dias NO E 7 3e INSTALLING THE SOF MA R ix u u y 3 8 3 1 THE HOMESOFT EDITOR MACOSX 1 I UU dla 8 3 2 THE HOMESOFT EDITOR WINDOWS l s 8 Ae ACTIVATINGTHES0OFPTUWARE uuu xu uyu uu Gu S us 9 De CREA FING NEW PROJECTSu aia 12 6 SETUP YOUR KNX CONNECTIOLN asa sawammawaamanmananmananaaaanaananmananaaaanmanaanaaaaaaaaa 14 7 DEFINING YOUR KNX DEVICE ADDRESSES lasu wsmmwmwmawmaaawmanaaaaaaa 15 Tikes IMPORTING DEVICES S L u ni A A A aS Sa yasa ia TS Qa D Q 15 Tees IMPORTANPREMARKS Z uuu u u uuu m k a u Saa 16 7 3 CHANGING DEVICE PARAMETERS uu u 1 cida 17 7 4 SENDING DATA TO THE KNX NETWO0RK 1 I l Il l l lasa wasaanamammanaananaanananmanaanananaaana 18 8 CREATEYOURPROJECI PAGES Ll l l RSS di 19 Gils PAGE PARAMETERS A Zulu y u u Q Qa a oia 19 0 2 PROJECI PARAMETERS pii u aun lcd 20 G 21 WEASTHEER DOCATI0ONZu Qu u uu ENTAR 20 O 2 A FO NPA uyum aaa ya m a uttan uu ite lan a Sma ants 20 O23 IPOD IPHONE STATUSIBAR COLOR vias u Zum AA awha Braet een asna aa 21 9 BUTREONSANP
7. It is not necessary to have an active KNX connection to create edit you projects HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 14 7 Defining your KNX Device Addresses Go to the Devices section Project Icons ActionLists Edit i Execute E 7 1 Importing devices There are different ways to get your KNX devices addresses into your project Actions Import from ETS Find Single Device Find Multiple Devices Request Data e The fast way Import from ETS recommended If you have access to your ETS project which was used to configure your KNX devices you have the possibility to Export to OPC Server format This option can be found in the File menu Data Extraction of the ETS software This will create a esf file You can now import this esf file directly into the HomeSoft Editor by choosing the Import from ETS button The semi automatic way find Single Multiple devices KNX connection must be active This option will Scan your KNX network for device that are switched on off or when dimmers go up down So while the editor is scanning switch on off all your lights or go up down with shutters dimmers or temperatures for the device to get detected and registered HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 15 The Find Single Device option will stop each t
8. 30 Apr 11 Date extended Monday 30 April 2011 Short Date Extended Mon 30 Apr 11 For Time Hour 23 Hour 11 PM Minutes 56 Time EU 23 56 Time US 11 56 PM HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 43 Button Parameters Type BUTTON Color Pi Border 1 Action Exit Application System Actions General Color Text button border color Border Button border size in screen pixels Button icons When selecting a button your button icon will also be selected on the top right side button list of your edit window Button Action When selecting a button your button action will also be selected on the bottom right side of your edit window Drag and Drop Buttons O Q Actions Goto Page Start Page Goto Page Light Page Goto Page New Page 5 Goto Page Downstairs Catn Dana lnctaire HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 44 Graphic Object Parameters Type GRAPHICS Color Fy Ci Border 10 Color The object Fill color The Object Border color Border Object border size in screen pixels Image Object Parameters Type IMAGE Name IMG_4734 JPG Size 2272 x 1704 You can not change the parameters for Image object It will just give you information about the original name of the image file and the size in pixels Camera Object Parameters Type CAMERA URL peter mypasword 152 1 130 216
9. HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 93 Patricks project 7 i pra a BE LN igh Devices Project Icons ActionLists Edit Execute Preferences Action List Name Garage light status Action Which What Value 1 Send Data garage on off Lighting Toggle Value 2 Send Data garage on off status Lighting Toggle Value But if we assign this action list to a button there will be no status change for the button because the button doesn t know which device status to show for an action list See 9 1 2 don t attach an action list to a dynamic button The trick here is to use 2 buttons First you place a double icon button and attach the light device to that button The button will then show the current state of this light Then we place a second transparent button on top of this light button You can find a complete transparent png file here http upload wikimedia org wikipedia commons 8 8c Transparent png Download this png image and add it to your icons list The transparent icon will also be automatically added to your drag and drop single Icon buttons Remember that as this icon is fully transparent you will just see an empty place in the list Double Icon Buttons gt Multi Icon Buttons Drag and drop the transparent invisible button on your page and scale and position this button on top of your previously placed light button As
10. 1 2 3671 Project Download New Project Start transfer mode in the editor before downloading updating the project HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 62 Wait for the transfer to complete Download Succeeded OK You can now start and run your project in your HomeSoft Viewer Make sure you have a connection with the KNX IP module HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 63 14 Appendix Advanced Information 14 1 ETS Programming When a project is started in the HomeSoft Viewer or a connection is activated in the HomeSoft editor the HomeSoft Software will request the current status of all used devices in your project This is done by sending a DATA_REQ data request message to the KNX network for every KNX device used in your project If your KNX devices have been set up in the correct way these devices will return an answer and the HomeSoft viewer will be able to show the correct status of your lights dimmers curtains temperatures In order for the KNX devices to give a response to this request the READ flag must be set This means that a request can READ the status of the device If not the device will not respond and on startup the HomeSoft viewer will show your lights as being OFF your dimmers will have value 0 So please check or ask your KNX installer to configure your devices with the ETS software so the
11. 31 337 m Action Dropbox Arrange Name 4 Date Modified Size Kind gt j Images Jan 24 2013 6 46 PM Folder name Jul 1 2012 8 01 PM 16 bytes Document project_0 db Mar 17 2013 11 59 PM 863 KB Document project_1 db Mar 24 2013 2 02 PM 867 KB Document project_2 db Apr 25 2013 1 03 AM 871 KB Document project_4 db Mar 12 2013 1 23 AM 835 KB Document project_5 db Mar 17 2013 11 55 AM 840 KB Document project_6 db Mar 17 2013 12 00 PM 843 KB Document project_7 db Mar 17 2013 6 17 PM 851 KB Document 7 project_8 db Mar 17 2013 7 08 PM 855 KB Document project_9 db Mar 17 2013 7 10 PM 859 KB Document project db Apr 25 2013 1 03 AM 874 KB Document Macintosh HD 5 Users gt N pco jj Library gt Application Support gt C HomeSoft _ Projects gt C 13 items 35 67 GB available The current project is stored in project db The most recent previous version can be found in the project name just before the missing number In this screenshot you can see that project_3 db is missing If you want to recover the previous version of your project you can find it in project_2 db HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 75 15 Examples 15 1 Creating drawing a small no sound loudspeaker object 15 1 1 The loudspeaker object Select the path draw edit tool Activate the grid meta G Draw the correct shape The draw will stop automatically once you reach
12. Icon buttons on off buttons used for on off switches They contain 2 images one willbe shown when the value is 0 the other picture will be shown if the value is 1 Multi Icon Buttons used for dimmers weather type Note that a button can be hidden by another object e g an image or a graphic object but will still be active and will execute the action assigned to it when pressing or clicking inside the button rectangle even if the button is hidden not visible If different buttons are on top of each other the topmost button will have priority 11 3 6 Group Objects You can put any combination of the previous objects into a group Grouped objects will always be selected together In many situations this will make editing align transform duplicate more easy HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 35 11 4 The Edit Menu 11 4 1 Undo redo meta Z meta shift Z Every object creation or editing operation is undo able 11 4 2 Copy cut paste meta C meta X meta V Will copy cut the selected objects If cut objects are pasted on the same page a small displacements will be added to the objects If pasted on a different page the original object position will be kept When editing text in the text edit tool the copy cut paste functions will only apply to text 11 4 3 Arrange In the following explanations a group is seen as a single object 11 4 3 1
13. N 37 1 40 UNCROUP dd eat 37 11 4 7 SELECT DESELECT ALL MATA A META SHIFT A a u 38 11 5 THEVIEW MENU ara 39 ESd SOPECHNICALEPREVIEW METAN asi AAAA ra EAA RR 39 15 2 SHOW HIDE GRID MET AAG al ea 39 TES SHOW BIDE KN X ADDRESSES METAN sidad 39 TEO THE Too a a 40 HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 3 LOL THE SELECT AND TRANSFORM TOOLS y aaa 41 LEGAL SECC ODOC os 41 11 6 1 2 Changing properties of the selected objects u 41 1 0141 5 TANIA OO 46 1 621 PHEPATHDPAAW EDIPTOOLD e E han 47 TLOZ 1 Eqiingaoinmexstuna pathuuuwm aan eb a sa nD 47 1302 2 Draw TW pa aa 48 6 WIE PERT TOONS usa sida 49 WAGs CREATE A newilineteyuu k uuu i u ic 49 1106 5 2 Create anew rectaneie text iodo 49 1 0535 AU SNS CI e eer eee 49 11 6 3 4 Resize the text rectangle for rectangle text u 49 11 6 3 5 When editing a text object with the text tool you can NOT 49 LESA THE SHARES TOO C eds 51 FLG INE CAMERA TOOL Aunado 52 FECO IHEIMAGE TOOL ii 54 ii A OLORINC OBJECT S ou 55 11 7 DRAG AND DROP BUTTONS 57 TIZ PLACING NEW BUTTON Susini 57 11 7 Z ASSIGNING AN ACTION TO YOURBUTTONS E lt a a m aa eee 57 LTS REPLACINGANEXIS
14. Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 32 and 64 bit e MacOS 10 6 64 bit MacOS 10 7 64 bit MacOS 10 8 64 bit iOS 4 2 iOS 5 x 10S 6 x 2 3 Notes Both the Editor and the Viewer will also run on Windows XP but it is not supported which means that we can not guarantee the correct functioning of the software e The current version of the HomeSoft software does not run on Windows 8 yet HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 3 Installing the Software To download the HomeSoft Editor Software go to the Download section on the www homesoftsolutions com website Fillin the correct information and you will receive a link to the latest version of the software by mail Click on the link in the mail the download will start automatically 3 1 The HomeSoft Editor MacOSX The MacOSX will automatically ask you to uncompress the zip file After doing this the HomesSoftEditor installer application can be found in your downloads folder Double click the HomeSoftEditor installer and follow the instructions on your screen When the software was correctly installed you will find the HomesSott Editor in your applications folder 3 2 The HomeSoft Editor Windows The Installer will be saved in your download directory Run the installer application HomeSoft_Editor_Setup exe When the software was correctly installed you will find a link
15. action list to switch off all your lights by executing those 2 actions lists It will look like this Action List Name ALL lights OFF Action Which What 1 Execute ActionList All lights OFF inside 2 Execute ActionList gt All lights OFF outside EJE HomesSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com Value Try 30 10 3 3 Goto Page One of the actions in an action list can also be a go to page action If you choose this action the second column will give you the list of available pages An example of this use case is pressing a button to switch on your TV This action will switch on your TV your sound amplifier and then goto a new page with your television buttons 10 4 Try out your action list If your KNX connection is active you can immediately check your action list by clicking the try button Just make sure you are connected to the KNX network HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 31 11 Step 7 Edit your project pages Go to the Edit section w y 74 I o kdi Devices Project Icons ActionLists Edit Execute In edit mode you can create edit and modify your pages in the project 11 1 Shortcuts The following shortcuts are available in editing mode e The meta key on MacOSX is the Cmd key The meta key on Windows is the Ctrl key 11 1 1
16. alpha channel will define the transparency of your color A value of 255 will define an opaque color a value of 0 will be completely transparent As an example you we created a white or a black rectangle with transparency on an image background The result will look as this HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 55 Select Color Basic colors Custom colors m Val 0 E Blue Add to Custom Colors Sat 0 Green Alpha channel Cancel oK a Tuesday 29 anuary 2 Hue O gt Red zZ 150 Keep in mind that creating new object will always use the color of the last selected object So if you want to create a new object shapes tool with the same color as some other object select the colored object first switch to the shapes tool and drag or create your new object When defining your color in the color dialog and you pick a color in the color pool or in the predefined color patches DON T FORGET TO CHECK YOUR TRANSPARENCY VALUE because the Alpha channel value will be remembered from the previous color For normal opaque colors the value should be 255 HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 56 11 7 Drag and Drop Buttons Drag and Drop Buttons gt 11 7 1 Placing new buttons Y Double Icon Buttons Sa Butt
17. correct size for your project Don t forget to give a meaningful name to your pages as this will be useful later Remarks The predefined page sizes 480x300 iPhone Horizontal iPhone 3 iPhone 4 300 x 480 iPhone Vertical iPhone 3 iPhone 4 568x300 iPhoned Horizontal iPhone 5 300x568 Phones Vertical iPhone 5 1024 x 748 iPad Horizontal All iPad Models 748 x 1024 iPad Vertical All iPad Models 1024x768 Desktop computer 1280x1024 Desktop computer 1680x1050 Desktop computer HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 19 e By default the first page will be used as a startup page when you start the HomeSoft Viewer unless you define another page as startup page Select a page in the page list and use the startup popup in the bottom left of your screen to define this page as startup You can only define 1 startup page for each platform iPhone iPad DeskTop iPhone5 e Because you can define your startup page for every devices it is possible to create only one project for more than one device e g for both your iPhone and iPad Startup Startup Page for iPad 8 2 Project Parameters 8 2 1 Weather Location You can define only one weather location for your project Enter the name ofthe city you want for your weather forecast If more than one city matches your city name you will get a listto choose from 600 Select Location Paris lle De F
18. default text object linked to this action HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 57 11 7 3 Replacing an existing button object If one or more button object are selected double clicking on a button in the Drag and Drop Buttons list will replace the button icons of the selected object The size of the original button object will remain and the new button will be resized to fit inside the object rectangle HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 58 11 8 Drag and Drop Text Ifyou drag an action from the Actions list onto your page a dynamic text object will be created linked to the selected action Actions bedroom middle sauna living central 5 spots living 2 spots wc parents we children wc downstairs bathroom 2 side master central dimming test cloakroom Y dimmers office 1 office 2 wc parents living central Y dimming status office 1 office 2 dining central living central dini tral Depending on the type of object you will be able to change the formatting of the text object gn ca Format Percent 98 4 gt Resulting in a automatic formatted number Drag and drop the time action from the system parameters to create a dynamic time object Select the object and change the formatting to get the desired result HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 59
19. file in Plain Text Format e After changing the camera list adding new cameras changing parameters you will need to RESTART the HomeSoft editor 14 2 1 Adding your own camera type If you camera is not listed in the default camera list you can add your own camera type This is how you add new camera types e Goto the website www ispyconnect com sources aspx e Look for your camera vendor in the camera database Look for your camera model in the list and look for JPEG as Connection Type Model Type Example URL HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 65 Hdm3 VLC rtsp IPADDRESS 554 mpeg4 HREP JPEG http IPADDRESS AI api get jpeg raw chno CHANNEL Open the camera list in the File menu e Add the following entry in the camera list preferably on top of the list YourCameraName egi bin webra fcgi fcgi Note that you should only use the part between the IPADDRESS and the character Save the Camera txt file Restart the HomeSoft Editor Your camera type should now be detected when pressing the camera search button 14 2 2 Changing the default camera parameters It is also possible to change the default parameters of the camera image Again look up your camera type on the website www ispyconnect com sources aspx Example You have an Axis 211 camera and you want to change the resolution and you also want the time and the date on your c
20. it probably means that the camera type is not defined in the default camera list we provide with the software But you can add additional camera types to the default camera list See Appendix 3 to add your own camera types HomesSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 53 JE Click or draw a rectangle to place an image The file selector will open and you can choose an image The following image formats are supported 11 6 6 The Image Tool BMP Bitmap image file GIF Graphic interchange format ICO Icon file format JPEG Joint Fotographic Experts Group JPG Joint Fotographic Experts Group PBM Portable bitmap format PGM Portable graymap PNG Portable network graphics PPM Portable pixmap TIF Tagged image file format TIFF Tagged image file format XBM X Bitmap XPM X Pixmap HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 54 11 6 1 Coloring Objects Most objects have a fill or a stroke color Click on the color patch to open the color dialog 800 Select Color Basic colors Hue 0 gt Red 109 Custom colors Sat 0 Green 109 Val 109 Blue 109 Alpha channel 255 Add to Custom Colors Cancel ok In the color dialog you can set the color by picking a color in the color pool or entering an RGB value manually Alpha channel The
21. need to choose a different public port number for each camera e g 91 92 Enter the URL with the correct port number in your project to be able to access your cameras from outside your local network Type CAMERA URL me psw test dyndns home com 90 Frequency msec 1000 Type Axis Again for security reasons it is recommended that you activate the password protection for your camera Note Some external networks or internet providers are blocking certain port numbers So it is possible that your cameras will not always be accessible from outside In our example if port number 90 was blocked no camera access will be possible HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 71 Using VPN The big advantage of using VPN is that the connection is secure Without the login and the password you can not login into the VPN network and other persons can not control your KNX devices via the internet Make sure your VPN server is configured correctly If your VPN server is embedded in your router you probably don t need to configure extra ports If not to Connect your VPN server to the outside world you need to open ALL the following TCP and UDP ports in your NAT options from your router 500 1701 1723 4500 and transfer route each of them to the IP address of your VPN server Our screenshot examples are from the Apple Time capsule Set the Router mode to use DHCP and NAT In
22. on your desktop HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 4 Activating the Software The trial version of the software allows you to create and edit projects but the projects will expire after 30 days This means that you will not be able to open the expired project in the editor and the expired project will not start up any more in your HomeSoft Viewer In order to unlock your expired projects you need to 1 Buy a license for the HomeSoft Editor from HomeSoft Website AND 2 Buy the Full version of the i0S HomesSoft Viewer in the app store www homesoftsolutions com buy html Buying a full version of the iOS viewer on the Apple app store means that you can install the Viewer on 5 different iOS devices if you use the same Mac ID to download the app Standard Apple policy To activate your license for the HomeSoft Editor you need 1 To buy allicense key Go to the website www homesoftsolutions com click on the Buy button and follow the instructions You will receive your license key by mail after payment 2 Go to the Activation window You can access the Activation section in your project manager dialog 600 HomeSoft Editor Projects Desktop Demo New HomeSoft Editor New Project 5 1 0 5 Duplicate Patricks project Full Version iPad Demo iPhone Demo Delete iPhone5 Demo Activation HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www
23. request Data button All entries in the group subgroup will ask their type and value to the KNX network Depending on how your devices were programed during the HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 16 installation of your KNX network they will or will not reply on this request see also Chapter 14 1 for more detailed information 2 Leave your project open in the KNX Editor and make sure your KNX connection is active Now go round your house switching your lights or devices on off manually The changes will be detected and your device types willthen be automatically updated 3 Select each device one by one in the list and change the type manually by changing the type with the popup list in the Editing section on the right Name Address Type Minimum Maximum Value Y dimmen bureel 2 spots 19 dimbaar 0 1 17 On Off 0 1 0 bureel 2 spots 20 dimbaar 0 1 18 On Off 0 1 0 Eetplaats 0 1 29 Percent 0 100 100 wc badk ouders 0 1 48 On Off 0 1 0 living 2x2 spots 13 dimbaar 0 1 52 Percent 0 100 29 slpk ouders 4 spots 37 dimbaar 0 1 53 Percent 0 100 0 7 3 Changing Device parameters Editing Address 1 0 1 Name basistemperatuur instellen Type Temperature Minimum 10 Maximum 30 You can edit the name and the type of the parameter if you want The minimum and maximum values can also be changed By default the minimum and maximum values are set to the lowest and highest possible va
24. the port settings we need to add 4 entries one for each port Base Station Internet Wireless Disks Router Mode DHCP and NAT al DHCP Range 192 168 1 2 to 192 168 1 70 DHCP Reservations Description IP Address a ip camera 1 192 168 1 90 ip camera2 192 168 1 91 ip camera 3 192 168 1 92 ip camera 4 192 168 1 93 Edit Port Settings Description Type VPN1 IPv4 VPN2 IPv4 VPN3 IPv4 VPN4 IPv4 Edit HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 72 In our example we show the setting to open the port 1701 and reroute all communication to the VPN server which is situated on our internal IP address 192 168 1 17 Firewall Entry Type IPv4 Port Mapping Public UDP Ports 1701 Public TCP Ports 1701 Private IP Address 192 168 1 17 Private UDP Ports 1701 Private TCP Ports 1701 Cancel Save Once your VP connection is operational and active on the server side and on your iOS device you need to configure the HomeSoft viewer using the CUSTOM connection in the settings You will need the IP address of your KNX IP device This IP address is detected automatically if your iOS device is in your home network and can be found in your Connections Carrier gt 10 09 PM HomeSoft Viewer Settings Connections 00 00 00 00 00 00 Y 192 100 1 2 30 1 Custom gt HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 73 In our scr
25. the start point again Draw it as big as you want we can scale it afterwards Go to the select tool and select the created object Give it a color 15 1 2 The cross With the path draw edit tool draw a line from the bottom left to the top right Double click on the last point to stop the path editing Give it a border e g 6 pixels Give it a color Now use the transform tool to rotate the line Press the ALT key to keep the original press the meta key to rotate around the object midpoint Rotate the line 90 degrees HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 76 15 1 3 Finishing Now select all the created object and put them in one group Edit menu group This will make it easier to select and move transform Now use the transform tool to scale and or position the created loudspeaker object Note that in order to select an entire group you need to use the area selection pressing the meta key in select tool HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 77 15 2 Creating a button in the background In many cases you want to be able to press on some area on your page without the need of showing a button object You can find such an example in the iPhone demo project which is delivered with the software Feb 19 Shutters Living E y wa y In most pages pressing anywhere on the top part not only on the little
26. 15 5 INTRODUCTION IMPLEMENTATION A a CONTROLLING YOUR VIDEO AND AUDIO WITH AN KNX INFRARED DEVICE HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 1 Introduction Before you start Youshould have a configured and working KNX network Itis highly recommended that you have access to your ETS database which was used to configure your KNX network If you don t have this data or don t have access to the ETS software ask your KNX network installer to provide you the Export to OPC Server format file of your ETS project This is a esf file e You need a connection to your KNX network The HomeSoft Software can work with most KNX USB or KNX IP modules gateways A KNX IP module gateway is recommended as this is also needed when using iOS devices iPhone iPod iPad HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 2 General information 2 1 Supported Image Formats The HomesSoft Software accepts the following image formats BMP GIF ICO JPEG JPG PBM PNG PPM TIF TIFF XBM XPM 2 2 Supported Operating Systems The HomeSoft Editor is tested and supported on the following platforms Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 32 and 64 bit MacOS 10 6 64 bit MacOS 10 7 64 bit MacOS 10 8 64 bit The HomesSoft Viewer is testes and supported on the following platforms e
27. Bring to front The selected objects will be moved to the front of the current page After executing this function all other objects will lay behind these selected objects 11 4 3 2 Bring forward The selected objects will move one level to the front 11 4 3 3 Send backward The selected objects will move one level to the back 11 4 3 4 Send to back The selected objects will be moved to the back of the current page After executing this function all other not selected objects will lay above these selected objects 11 4 3 5 Align left edges The selected objects will be moved to the left All left edges of the selected objects will be aligned to the most left selected object 11 4 3 6 Align top edges The selected objects will be moved up All top edges of the selected objects will be aligned to the topmost selected object 11 4 3 7 Align right edges The selected objects will be moved to the right All right edges of the selected objects will be aligned to the most right selected object HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 36 11 4 3 8 Align bottom edges The selected objects will be moved to the bottom All bottom sides of the selected objects will be aligned to the bottommost selected object 11 4 3 9 Align vertically All selected objects will be centered vertically on the center of the bounding box of the selected objects 11 4 3 10 Align horizontally All selected objects wil
28. Frequency msec 1000 Type Sony URL Enter the URL of your camera It can be an IP address or a dns name There is also support for the login and password if your camera is password protected See chapter 11 9 for more details Frequency Defines the number of milliseconds before a new camera image will be fetched For cameras inside your local network you can easily set this value to 100ms 10 frames second for a smooth animation HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 45 11 6 1 3 Transforming objects When an object is selected and you are in the select transform tool a selection rectangle will be drawn around the selection When moving your cursor at the corners of the selection or move to the edge of the rectangle you can Move the object cursor inside object cursor is cross Scale the object cursor on corner or on edge cursor is double arrow Rotate the object cursor slightly outside a corner cursor is rotation arrow While transforming an object you can have additional functions using modifier keys you can use more than one at the same time For moving operations use Shift key for horizontal or vertical moves Alt key to keep the original object For scaling operations use Shift key while scaling for proportional equal vertical and horizontal scaling Meta key to change the scaling center to the center of the selection Alt key to
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30. If the grid is active activate de activate with meta G the points you draw will always snap to a grid point HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 48 i 11 6 3 The Text tool With the text tool you can 11 6 3 1 Create a new line text Click on any position on your project page to start a line text Don t click too close to an existing text or you will edit this existing text see 3 A cursor will appear and you can Start typing text 11 6 3 2 Create a new rectangle text Click and drag to create a rectangle text object Don t click too close to an existing text or you will edit this existing text see 3 A cursor will appear and you can start typing text 11 6 3 3 Edit existing text Click close to an existing text object to edit or change the text Your cursor will appear in the existing text You can now change your text as needed Use the arrow keys to navigate through your text You can also drag or use the shift arrow keys select a range of characters 11 6 3 4 Resize the text rectangle for rectangle text Click inside an existing rectangle text to go into text edit If it is a rectangle text the border rectangle will be shown When moving your mouse pointer close enough to the border rectangle your cursor will change into an arrow and you will be able to resize the border rectangle 11 6 3 5 When editing a text object with the text tool you can NOT e Change the
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33. alternative font will be used resulting in misaligned text objects Font Size The size of your text in points Align The alignment of your text object If you created your text with a text rectangle by dragging when creating the text object the text will be aligned inside the rectangle If you created your text by clicking line text the click position will define the left center or right position Format for dynamic texts only Align Format Date extended Monday 30 April 2011 If your text object is a dynamic text which means it is linked to a KNX device or to a system parameter like date and time you will be able to select the formatting of the text For Temperatures C 21 C 21 C 21 C C 21 3 C 21 3 C 21 3 C F 78 F 78 F 78 F F 78 3 F 78 3 HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 4 F 78 3 F For Percentages Percent 98 Percent 98 4 Percent 98 Percent 98 4 For Dates Year 2011 Short Year 11 Month 04 Month April Short Month Apr Day 30 WeekDay Monday Short Weekay Mon Day Month 30 04 Month Day 04 30 Date US 2011 04 30 Short Date US 11 04 30 Date EU 30 04 2011 Short Date EU 30 04 11 Date April 30 Short Date Apr 30 Date 30 April Short Date 30 Apr Full Date 30 April 2011 Short Full Date
34. amera image On the camera web page you can find the following info http IPADDRESS axis cgi jpg image cgi date 1 amp clock 1 amp resolution WIDTH x HEIGHT Open the HomeSoft camera txt file in the File menu e Change the entry Axis axis cgi jpg image cgi By Axis axis cgi jpg image cgi date 1 amp clock 1 amp resolution 320x240 And put this line on top of the list Restart the HomeSoft Editor Your new camera parameters should now be detected and used when pressing the camera search button HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 66 14 3 Translations When Using Time and date in your projects and the formatting of the date is using the weekname or the mont name the default language is set to english If you want your monts or weekdays displayed in your own language you can do this by editing the Days txt and Months txt file You can open these files in the File menu The default text editor of your system will be used to open the file Be careful to keep the format of the file e Be sure you save your file in Plain Text Format Days txt e The Days txt file should contain 7 lines e Every line contains the full Weekday name a space character and the short weekday name e Example if you want French names your file should become Dimanche Dim Lundi Lun Mardi Mar Mercredi Mer Jeudi Jeu Vendredi Ven Samedi Sam Months txt e T
35. buttons Single icon buttons This is the simplest button It s a static button does not change and can be used for any action Executing an action list e Go to another page Exit application 9 1 2 Dynamic buttons Double and Multi icon Buttons Dynamic buttons must be linked to a KNX Device See further edit section Note Don t attach an action list to a dynamic button see further edit section If you do pressing the button will execute the action list but as action lists do not generate a return value the state of the button will never change 9 1 2 1 Double Icon buttons This is a Dynamic button The double buttons are generally used for ON OFF devices e g a light The double Icon button has 2 icons 2 states the first icon HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 22 willbe shown when the device is ON the second icon isshown when the device is OFF How it works Pressing a double icon button will toggle the value of the attached device between his minimal and maximal value The minimal and maximal value for devices can be set in the Devices section For an ON OFF device the minimum value is 0 the maximum value is 1 You can also use the double icon button for value or percentage devices e g a dimmer Pressing the button will then toggle between the minimal value 0 and the maximal value 100 9 1 2 2 Multi Icon but
36. d to create a separate action list for every control In our example we create an action list with one action called Channel UP and define the action to send a value of 18 to the IR address device We do this for all IR controls we need TV BWD Action List Name channel UP TV Stop ALL OUT Action Which What Value TV ON ipad 1 Send Data IR address Set Value to 18 Sound UP Sound DOWN Sound MUTE channel UP channel DOWN TV ON iPhone Y Remote Digibox Press 0 Press 1 Press 2 Press 3 Press 4 Press 5 Press 6 Press 7 Press 8 Press 9 new actionlist Y Remote Amplifier Y Remote DVD I Group Action List aLi D You can also define action lists combining different IR actions like e g if you want to have a button in your project to start watching TV you need to switch on your TV your digicoder your amplifier and set the correct Audio input channel to TV You can call already defined action lists and combine them into a new action list Sound UP Action List Name Switch ON TV Sound DOWN Sound MUTE A channel DOWN TV ON iPhone 2 Execute ActionList Digibox ON a nme Digibox 3 Execute ActionList Amplifier ON Y Remote Amplifier Amplifier ON 4 Execute ActionList Set input to TV Amplifier OFF Volume UP Volume Down Set input to TV Set input to DVD Y Remote Combined Switch ON TV s Try Group Action List gt HomeSoft Editor Manua
37. e file browser you will be asked if you want the different icons to be used in one single multi icon button or if your selection should be added as multiple Single Icon Buttons oe Select one or more files to open p un zr m imi v GjVerticalGauge FAVORITES Name C Date Modified fa Dropbox O png Sep 22 2012 6 02 PM a 1 png Sep 22 2012 6 02 PM a 2 png Sep 22 2012 6 02 PM Ax Applications _3 png Sep 22 2012 6 02 PM E Desktop 4 png Sep 22 2012 6 02 PM Docent l _S png Sep 22 2012 6 02 PM 6 png Sep 22 2012 6 02 PM Downloads pco J Drop Box Arianel J Ariane2 J Projects old New Folder Cancel Open e oo Do you want to put the images in a multi icon button Wom Yes Answering Yes will create a new Multi Icon button You new button will be added to the Multi icon button list on the left part of the screen Single Icon Buttons Double Icon Buttons Y Multi Icon Buttons eo ee 460 00 eo e HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 24 Answering NO will add all selected icon images as single icons Y Single Icon Buttons gt Double Icon Buttons gt Multi Icon Buttons 9 3 Modifying Buttons You can modify any icons in the button list on the left part of the screen using DRAG and DROP You can Drag one icon image from one button to another position in the same button e g to switch the position
38. e your own set of weather icons remember to use the following order from left to right you need exactly 19 icons Icon 1 Icon 2 Icon 3 Icon 4 Icon 5 Icon 6 Icon 7 Icon 8 Icon 9 Icon 10 Icon 11 Icon 12 Icon 13 Icon 14 Icon 15 Icon 16 Icon 17 Icon 18 Icon 19 9 5 2 Icon 1 Icon 2 Icon 3 Icon 8 Not Available used e g if no connection to the weather site Clear Sunny Partly Cloudy Cloudy Overcast Mist Fog Freezing fog Patchy rain nearby Patchy snow light snow sleet showers Patchy sleet freezing drizzle freezing rain Thundery outbreaks Blowing snow Blizzard heavy snow Patchy light drizzle light rain shower Light drizzle Light Rain Moderate heavy rain at times heavy rain shower Heavy rain torrential rain Moderate or heavy rain with thunder Moderate or heavy snow with thunder Wind Direction North North East East North West HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 26 10 Create your Action Lists Go to the ActionLists section so 0 Icons Edit Execute Action lists are sequences of actions also known as Presets or Scenes They allow you to execute more than one action when pressing a button Action lists are also used to send a specific value to a device e g IR device or to increase or decrease the current value of a device e g temperature See examples
39. eate the static elements using the shape rectangle and the text tool Temperature Now drag and drop the and the button from the drag and drop single icon buttons onto your screen You will notice that the buttons are very big Use the transform tool to scale down the size don t forget to press the shift key to activate the proportional scaling using the corner point HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 80 Temperature Position the buttons by activating the transform tool and use your mouse or the arrow keys to move to the wanted position Now switch to the text tool and create 2 text objects One for the current temperature one smaller for the Asked temperature Switch to the selection transform tool and select the text objects one by one Give them the correct color and size and make sure the alignmentis set to center We now apply the correct Action to the text Go to your actions dialog on the right and look for the actual temperature parameter for your room Make sure the correct static text object is selected and double click your action on the right The action is now assigned you your text object We just created a dynamic text object Choose the correct formatting for your temperature Do exactly the same for the bottom blue text but now use the Asked temperature value of your room to connect to your text yes New Roman Y Size Align
40. eenshot The KNX IP device has address 192 168 1 2 and is using the default KNX port 3671 Remember this address and go to the custom section Enter the address and press the Save button Carrier gt 10 09 PM Settings Custom Connection 192 168 1 21 Save The Homesoft viewer is now ready for controlling the KNX devices via VPN Note 1 This custom setting will work for both VPN connections and local connections When you are in your home Network Note 2 When using VPN you don t need to do anything special for the IP cameras in your network Note 3 The build in VPN connection from Apple will be lost every time your iPhone iPad iPod goes to sleep HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 74 14 5 Project Locations and backups The projects are stored in the following locations MacOSx Users USERNAME Library Application Support HomeSoft Projects Windows C Documents and Settings USERNAME Application data HomeSoft Projects Backup The latest project data is stored in one single file called project db All images from the project are stored in the Images folder Every time you save your project the previous version will be overwritten but first a backup of the previous project will be taken It will be named project_0 db project_1 db We will always remember the 10 last projects i K Aa AS AZ WT Ra E tS a Em e we lt lt x x a x x m
41. ges the text is also updated HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 33 Every text can be either a line text the size of its box is equal to the size of the text or a rectangle text you define the size of the rectangle around the text See The text tool for more information A text object can have atext color a background color aborder aborder color afont a font size analignment a formatting only for dynamic texts percentage temperature date Line Text Rectangle Text 21 9 C 11 3 3 Image Objects An image object can contain any of the following picture types BMP GIF ICO JPEG JPG PBM PGM PNG PPM TIF TIFF XBM XPM You can insert any image present on you computer into your project see image tool for more details 11 3 4 Camera Objects A camera object is similar to an image object except that instead of a fixed image you define an URL to a WEB camera We support most IP cameras that generate JPEG images see camera tool for more details 11 3 5 Button Objects Button objects are also similar to image objects except that they can be dynamic and that they can execute an action when pressing or clicking on them HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 34 We have 3 types of buttons Singleicon buttons static button has only one icon image Double
42. he months txt file should contain 12 lines Every line contains the full month name a space character and the short month name Example if you want Italian names your file should become Gennaio Gen Febbraio Feb Marcia Mar HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 67 14 4 Remote Connection You want to control your hoe devices over the internet while you are on a different location This is possible and there are 2 methods to do so You can either use the NAT Network address translation available in your home router or you can use VPN if you have a VPN server Note that using VPN is the most secure option Using NAT 14 4 1 What do you need You need either a STATIC IP address or a dynamic dns service www dyndns com wWww no ip com 14 4 2 Which ports are used The KNX IP device is using UDP and port 3671 The IP cameras are usually using TCP and port 80 14 4 3 Define the port remapping You will need to set up your router to be able to access your internal IP devices from the outside world This is done using NAT network Address Translation Go to the setup of your router How to do this is dependent from the connected router model You can get this information from the user manual that is provided with your router Some examples In most cases you can access the router setup and configuration by typing the IP address 192 168 1 1 in y
43. hes to night mode the base temperature stays the same but the asked temperature is reduces by a predefines amount of degrees As an example during the day your base temperature equals the Asked temperature and is e g 20 5 degrees C When at a certain time your device switches to night mode and the night mode was defined to be 5 degrees less than day mode your parameters will become base temperature is still 20 5 degrees C but the asked temperature switches to 15 5 degrees C The Mode parameter is just a number allowing to switch to a different heating mode The best example here is night day mode So if we want to control our heating we need to use the correct parameters This means Always show the Asked temperature in your project to know what temperature your heating is trying to reach Always increase or decrease the Base temperature to increase or decrease the asked temperature Do not Show the Base temperature in your project This is a misleading value HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 79 15 3 2 Implementation Lets go into detail to create the following example I want to control my heating in my living and the result should look like this The big white text is telling me the Actual temperature the smaller blue text is the Asked temperature On each side there isa button one to increase one to decrease the Asked temperature Temperature First cr
44. homesoftsolutions com 9 X Not Activated RUNNING IN TRIAL MODE Enter license key here Activate Enter the license key use copy amp paste to avoid typing errors and press the Activate button A key looks like this 2X1U1 1LRF5 K12U2 QF9LB 000A1 3 Alicense key validity check will be done first If you entered an invalid key you will get an error O s m f y Invalid Key o J 4 Ifthe validity check passed the key will be send to the activation server You need to have a direct no proxy server internet connection in order to activate your key If the activation was successful a green icon will appear in your license tab The startup Projects dialog and the About dialog will mention Full Version HomeSoft Editor 1 0 5 Full Version Activated i HomesSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 10 5 Remember that if you are viewing the projects on your iPhone iPad or iPod touch you will also need to buy the full version of the HomeSoft viewer on the App store If you use the free Lite version the project will still expire after 30 days Note If you are using the free MacOSX or Windows Viewer there will be no expiry if the projects were send from the full activated version of the HomeSoft Editor HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 11 5 Creating New Projects When Starting u
45. iewer Settings Connections 00 00 00 00 00 00 192 1 1 2 3 Custom gt Project In the Custom connection section fill in your DNS name our your static IP address and press the Save button Carrier gt 2 04 PM Settings Custom Connection example dyndns home com Save The Viewer is now ready to access your KNX Network through the Internet Carrier gt 2 08 PM HomeSoft Viewer Settings Connections 00 00 00 00 00 00 192 168 1 2 3671 Custom J example dyndns home com 36 Setting the camera port mapping If you are using NAT you also need to remap your cameras The procedure for cameras is almost identical You need to know the internal IP address of your camera s The internal port of a camera is usually 80 Try to define a static IP HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com address for your camera and nota DHCP address because we don t want the address to change Lets assume your fixed camera IP is 192 168 1 90 You need to define the mapping like this _ AirPort Utility Firewall Entry Type IPv4 Port Mapping Description P camera 1 Public UDP Ports Public TCP Ports 90 Private IP Address 192 168 1 90 Private UDP Ports Private TCP Ports The public TCP port is a port number you can choose except for some special port numbers In this example we chose as public port number 90 If you have more than 1 camera you
46. ime a new device was detected and you will be able to enter the name of the device The Find Multiple Devices will continue to scan devices until you stop the process You can change the device names after the scanning Use the Toggle data and Send data buttons see further to detect which address corresponds to which device The complete manual way you need to know the addresses of your KNX devices Press the button in the bottom left of your Devices screen to manually add KNX addresses to your project You will be able to enter a range of KNX addresses Create New Device Addresses From 1 2 0 Cancel OK To 1 2 You will also need to enter the correct description for each device 7 2 Important Remarks If you used the complete manual way the created devices will have a type Unknown Name Address Type Minimum Maximum Value Y dimmen bureel 2 spots 19 dimbaar Unknown 27 77 77 bureel 2 spots 20 dimbaar Unknown 77 277 77 Eetplaats Unknown wc badk ouders Unknown 77 77 77 living 2x2 spots 13 dimbaar Unknown 77 77 77 slpk ouders 4 spots 37 dimbaar Unknown 77 777 77 In order to use KNX devices in your project a VALID type must be set Finding the correct Address Type can be done in different ways 1 Using the Request Data button The KNX Connection must be active Select a single entry in the list a subgroup or a main group and press the
47. in Chapter 15 10 1 Add a new group Action lists are divided in action list groups Start by creating one or more groups with the group button and give them a meaningful name 10 2 Add a new action list Select one of your created groups and press the Action List button to add a new action list in this group Give it a meaningful name Shutters All up All Down Group Action List HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 27 10 3 Add actions in your action list Select the action list in your left action list window You can now add actions to this action list in the right action list window by pressing the button in the right window section Action List Name All up Action 3 4 5 1 Send Data Shutter Left Set Value to 100 2 Send Data Shutter right Set Value to gt 100 3 Send Data Shutter back Set Value to 100 L You have the choice between the following types of actions 10 3 1 Send Data Send a message to a specific KNX device Ifyou choose this Action the next 2nd column will automatically list the available devices In order to appear in this popup list your devices must have a valid type not unknown see the Devices section The different types of devices what can you define Action List Name Scene Living Romantic de Set Value to 1
48. ion on the right you will now find the 2 new action lists we just created under My Action Lists Double click on the correct action to attach the action to the button Do the same for the other button Actions Kitchen UP Temperature Kitchen DOWN a Living Up aVat i Living DOWN fP cial emp e Bureel UP A S R i Bureel Down E Hall Up mim Living DOWNIN Hall down Ah Iris UP il Iris DOWN Ariane UP Ariane DOWN HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 82 15 4 Creating a dynamic button that can control multiple devices 15 4 1 Introduction As explained in the dynamic buttons section a dynamic button which has different states and icons can only be linked to one single KNX device The state of this KNX device will determine which icon willbe shown in the button Butin some cases we want to send more messages to the KNX network when pressing a button and we also want the button to be dynamic An example for this is switching on off a light but we also want change the light status led This light status led has a different KNX address As an example we assume that our light has address 0 0 15 and our light status led has address 0 3 15 Both have type On Off 15 4 2 Implementation In the HomeSoft software the only way to change 2 KNX devices with one button is using an action list So first we create an action list that will change both devices
49. ject is present at that position the topmost object will have priority Notes e Clicking outside the project page will deselect all objects Use Shift to add more objects to the selection Selected objects can be Moved cursor inside object scaled cursor at sides or corners or cursor slightly outside corners rotated The cursor will show you what transformation is chosen While transforming use the Shift key for proportional scaling or 15 degree rotations Selecting an entire group see 11 4 5 is only possible with the Area select 11 6 1 2 Changing properties of the selected objects Depending on the type of object you can have different object parameters Note that the object parameters are shown from the last selected object Text Parameters Type TEXT Color O A Border 0 Font Baskerville Y Size 32 Align Color Text rectangle background color Text rectangle border color Text color Border Text rectangle border size in screen pixels HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 41 Font Text Font name Note that not all fonts from your system are available in the HomeSoft Viewer If you are creating a project for an iOS device please check the following website for the list of available fonts http www iosfonts com and only use the fonts that are available on the iOS version of your iOS device If the font is not found an
50. keep the original object For rotation operations use Shift key while scaling to use a constraint angle set to 15 degrees Meta key to change the rotation center to the center of the selection Alt key to keep the original object HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com A6 S 11 6 2 The Path draw edit tool 11 6 2 1 Editing an existing path Double clicking on the edge of a object will put that object in path editing mode This will only work on graphic objects Graphic objects are object which were created by either this path draw tool or the shape creation tool The path is now in edit mode blue and the points are drawn as squares You can add any point to any path by just clicking on a line the cursor changes to a cross You can select points by e Clicking on the point e Drag a rectangle around one or more points e Use the SHIFT key to add points to your selection Selected points can be e Moved your cursor needs to be positioned on a selected point the cursor will change to the move icon Click and drag the selected points to a new position e Moved with the arrow keys If the grid is active visible your movements will use the grid distance Defined in the edit preferences If the grid is not active the points will move by the number of pixels defined in the Arrow Movement in the Edit Preferences e Deleted If only one point is selected the point will be rem
51. l KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 87 The last step is to assign our action lists to some buttons Go to the Edit mode position your buttons onto your page and assign the correct action lists to the buttons Type BUTTON Color Border 0 Drag and Drop Buttons e Gow Page iPhone multime gt a as aaea age sve pp Goto Page iPhone 1 O F cho mk e os arku Actions e Vol Press Press Press 6 ch ALL OUT TV ON ipad Sound UP Press 7 Press Press 9 channel DOWN Sound DOWN Sound MUTE ka ma channel DOWN TV ON iPhone Remote Digibox Remote Amplifier Y Remote Combined HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 88 A Action Lists 27 Activating 9 Align bottom edges 37 Align left edges 36 Align right edges 36 Align top edges 36 Align vertically 37 Alpha channel 55 Area select 41 Arrange 36 Assigning an action to a text 57 Assigning an action to your buttons 57 B backups 75 Bring forward 36 Bring to front 36 Button Objects 34 Button Parameters 44 Button Types 22 C Camera Object Parameters 45 camera parameters 66 Camera Tool 52 Camera Type 52 65 Cameras 65 Coloring Objects 55 Connection 14 Copy cut paste 36 Create a new line text 49 Create a new rectangle text 49 D Drag and Drop Buttons 57 Drag and Drop Text 59 Draw a new path 48 Dynamic but
52. l be centered vertically on the center of the bounding box of the selected objects 11 4 4 Resize 11 4 4 1 Resize MinimalHeight The vertical size of all selected objects will be changed to the height of the smallest selected object 11 4 4 2 Resize MaximalHeight The vertical size of all selected objects will be changed to the height of the largest selected object 11 4 4 3 Resize MinimalWidth The horizontal size of all selected objects will be changed to the width of the smallest selected object 11 4 4 4 Resize MaximalWidth The horizontal size of all selected objects will be changed to the width of the largest selected object 11 4 4 5 Resize MinimalSize The size of all selected objects will be changed to the size of the smallest selected object 11 4 4 6 Resize MaximalSize The size of all selected objects will be changed to the size of the largest selected object 11 4 5 Group The selected objects will be put into a group object A group can contain any type of objects including other groups Area select see select tool of a group will always select all the objects in the group 11 4 6 Ungroup HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 37 Remove all the groups in the selected objects The objects inside the groups will become normal objects again 11 4 7 Select Deselect All mata A meta shift A All objects on the current page will be selected deselected If the
53. lue for this type of object These values are used when calculating the position of slider icons see multi icon buttons TYPE Possible types UNKNOWN Default value As soon as a KNX message comes into the system and the type is unknown the type will be changed automatically to the info from the KNX message ON OFF 1 bit values Usually used for lights or sensors HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 17 VALUE 1 byte Can have a value from 0 to 255 Is used for dimmers Shutter position valve status PERCENT 1 byte Special case of Value type see note TEMPERATURE 2 bytes Used for getting or setting temperatures Note What is the difference between Value and Percent For e g dimmers and shutter positions its is recommended to set the type to Percent By default they will get the Value type A Value object can have values from 0 to 255 A Percent object will show and use values from 0 to 100 Internally they will still use values from 0 to 255 Percent objects will have more formatting options when you want to display the value on your project page It will also be easier in the action lists to work with percentages e g if you want to set the dimmer value on 50 7 4 Sending data to the KNX network Send Value 0 Send Data Toggle Data If your KNX connection is active you can send data to the KNX device
54. meSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 39 11 6 The Tools O 3 Select Transform Tool Click on an edge or inside an object or drag a rectangle to select one or more objects Path Creation editing DoubleClick on a path to start editing this path Click anywhere else to start drawing a new path Double click to end the creation editing Text Tool Click or drag a rectangle to start a new text object Click on any existing text to edit this text Shapes Creation Creates rectangles triangles circles Click and drag to create objects Press R while dragging to change the shape Image Tool Click or drag a rectangle to Place a picture A browser will appear to select your picture on disk See Page 2 for supported image formats Camera Tool Click or drag a rectangle to Place a Camera Object HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 40 11 6 1 The Select And Transform tool 11 6 1 1 Selecting objects You can select objects in 3 different ways 1 Point select Click on the edge of the object to select it It is easy to see the edge of the objects in technical preview 2 Rectangle select click and drag a rectangle around the objects you want to select All objects lying entirely inside the selection rectangle will be selected 3 Area select If you click inside an object this object will be selected If more than one ob
55. nd 17 press back 1 Normal O Export als IRC Datei off R Command 18 press ch 1 Normal g x off IR Command 19 press ch 1 Normal A of R Command 20 press pause 1 Normal IR Befehl l schen of A Command 21 press play 1 Normal O of IR Command 22 press stop 1 Normal O of IR Command 23 press fwd 1 Normal D IR Datenliste neu of IR Command 24 press bwd 1 Normal O of R Command 25 digicoder onoff 1 Normal O of IR Command 26 press left 1 Normal 0 sek O of IR Command 27 press right 1 Normal O of A Command 28 press up 1 Normal 0 sek O v lt f Sperrzeiten IR Befehl lemen Alle IR Befehl lemen STOP Repeat reset 2 Assign all needed and learned in step 1 IR command to a KNX address and a value Every KNX address can send 256 different values so you can assign 256 IR commands to just one KNX address This should be sufficient for all your IR controls In our example 9 see screenshot we will use the KNX address 10 0 1 Example If we want to switch on off our digicoder we will need to send a value of 25 to the KNX address 10 0 1 see further HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 85 IR1 IR2 IR3 IR4 COM1 COM2 Digital 1 Digital 2 Digital 3 Digital 4 Macro List IR Output 1 Code 1 96 digicoder onoff press left EIB Adr 10 0 001 Wert 25 0x19 Wert 26 0x14 press right Wert 27 0 16 press up Wert 28 0x1C pres
56. of the on and the off icon Drag one icon image from one button to another button will remove the icon image from the drag starting button and add the icon image to the drop position e Drag an icon image from the icon pool right side to any button left side Drag one icon image from one button to the icon pool will remove this icon image from the button You will notice that if you add an extra icon to a double icon button it will become a multi icon button if you remove an icon from a double icon button it will become a single icon button 9 4 Deleting Buttons You can only delete a button by deleting all the icon images inside the button You can delete an icon image by dragging the icons from the button and drop it in the icon pool or select them and press the button in the bottom left section You can also delete icon images from the icon pool by selecting any icon and press the button in the bottom right section Note that if that icon is used in a button on the left it will only be removed from the pool but still exist in the button HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 25 9 5 Predefined Buttons When creating a new project you will notice that a predefined set of icons and images is available Don t change the given set of the multi icon weather button or the wind direction button 9 5 1 Weather If you want to create or us
57. ons can be placed in your project by drag and drop from Y 4 the right side list onto your project page Icons section A new project will automatically contain some default buttons il Drag and drop buttons must be created separately in the on You can just drag and drop any button from the list onto your page Y Multi Icon Buttons When selecting a button objectin your project the correct drag and drop button will be highlighted You can change the buttons in your project by just selecting them and then double clicking on any drag and drop button from the list This will not modify any other selected non button objects 11 7 2 Assigning an action to your buttons Select one or more buttons and double click on one of the Actions in the bottom right list In this list next to single actions and your own action lists you will also find system parameters Date Time Weather and System Actions Goto Page Important remark Only actions with a valid type different from UNKNOWN will appear in this list see paragraph 7 2 Assigning an action to a text Select any text object and double click on a single action in the Drag and Drop actions list The text will now show the value of the assigned action e g the percentage of the dimmer the wind speed the temperature of some room Drag And Drop of any single action from the list onto your project page will automatically generate a
58. our web browser If your router is a Apple Time Capsule you access the router configuration using the AirPort Utility in the Applications Utilities In your router configuration page try to find the NAT section and look how you can add new Port Mappings HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 68 Setting the KNX IP module Port mapping To remap your KNX IP module you should know the internal IP address You can find this address in the HomeSoft Editor Preferences KNX Connection Preferences Edit Transfer Weather 00 00 00 00 00 00 192 168 1 2 3671 Search Fill in this address in the Private Address section and fill in the port 3671 in both the Public and the Private UDP Port section Note that the public UDP port can be set to any value If you do so make sure to fill in this modified port number in the Custom connection settings see further OOO AirPort Utility Firewall Entry Type IPv4 Port Mapping Description Public UDP Ports Public TCP Ports Private IP Address 192 168 1 2 Private UDP Ports 3671 Private TCP Ports Cancel Save ww ssssrssmsasrs snwwksFS rrrnTrF 8wwwsai w WwwwwwwwF8auss sits In the HomeSoft Viewer go to the Settings And choose the Custom connection HomesSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 69 Carrier 2 03 PM HomeSoft V
59. oved If more than 1 point is selected the lines between the 2 selected and points will be removed Splines Double clicking on a point will toggle the between lines and Splines A spline is a curved path and has 2 control points Moving the control point will adapt the shape of the spline ql HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 47 Click and dragging on an unselected point will move the point and its control points if itsaspline Click and drag on an unselected control point will modify the shape of the spline by moving both control points in a symmetric way If you want to change the position of only one control point select the control point first Then click and drag on the selected control point All path editing actions can be undone meta z 11 6 2 2 Draw a new path Click on the project drawing page to define the points of the path you want to draw A straight line will be drawn between the different clicked points If you want to draw splines click and drag The click will define the end point dragging will define the control point If your last click is on the starting point the path will automatically be closed and created You can end the path drawing by double clicking anywhere in the drawing page You can cancel the path drawing any time by pressing the ESC key You can undo your last added point during drawing by pressing the undo shortcut meta z
60. p the Homesoft Editor you automatically enter the project manager dialog This dialog allows you to eoc HomeSoft Editor Projects Desktop Demo New iPad Demo iPhone Demo Duplicate My new project Delete Open New Create a new empty project This project will contain some default buttons and icons provided by HomesSott Solutions You can create up to 5 different projects in the HomeSoft Editor If you need to use an unlimited number of projects contact us for the professional version of the HomeSoft Editor TRIAL MODE The time of creation will be remembered in the project and the project will expire 30 days later During those 30 days you can use all the available functionality There is no limitation Duplicate Duplicate an existing project If you want to create a new similar project you can choose to duplicate an existing project All buttons icons images which were used in the original project will be available in the copied project TRIAL MODE Duplicated projects will have the same creation date as the original project so duplicating an expired project will also be expired Delete Remove an existing project The complete project will be removed from your hard disk drive Open HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 12 Open and start editing a project into the Editor TRIAL MODE If your project was created more than 30 days ago the project will not o
61. pen You will be able to open expired projects again in the activated version of the HomeSoft Editor you need to buy a license key to activate the Editor Rename If you want to rename a project double click on the name and change the name HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 13 6 Setup your KNX Connection Open an existing project or create and open a new project from the project manager dialog The KNX Connection parameters can be found by opening the Application preferences dialog or directly by clicking on the connection icon in the bottom left of your screen A KNX Connection OVOl statpae sO x Press the Search button to detect any possible KNX devices Both KNX IP and USB devices will be detected Note KNX USB devices on Mac will be detected but will not work without the installation of a driver A MacOS KNX USB driver is usually not provided for MacOSX Select the correct device in the popup list and press Connect If the device can be accessed the connection status will switch to green It is recommended to enable the Connect on startup button to Connect automatically to the device when starting up the HomeSoft Editor 000 Preferences General Transfer Weather 00 00 00 00 00 00 192 168 1 2 3671 Search DisConnect Connection Status Connection Error Connect On Startup V Cancel OK Remark
62. r when the shutter was opened or closed this flag must be set Ww FL 4 64 66 JUIDLOMY UI COLITA Pian LUM Loot ML ES A 1 1 3 Universal Dimmaktor 2Fach REG A 1 1 4 Bin reingang 6fach 24Y REG E A 1 1 5 Jalousieaktor 4fach 230v Hand REG um O Ausgang 1 Kurzzeitbetrieb ski 1 Ausgang 2 Kurzzeitbetrieb TH 2 Ausgang 3 Kurzzeitbetrieb ER 3 Ausgang 4 Kurzzeitbetrieb E 4 Ausgang 1 Langzeitbetrieb 8 Ausgang 1 Positionierung Jalousie E 5 Ausgang 2 Langzeitbetrieb TH 6 Ausgang 3 Langzeitbetrieb Object bewerken E 7 Ausgang 4 Langzeitbetrieb Functie Positionierung Jalousie Vlaggen 8 Ausgang 1 Positionierung Jalousie r FS pean sl 9 Ausgang 2 Positionierung Jalousie Prioriteit Low Read ay 10 Ausgang 3 Positionierung Jalousie an EP 11 Ausgang 4 Positionierung Jalousie Type write T 12 Ausgang 1 Positionierung Lamelle Lengte 1 Byte Transmit EP 13 Ausgang 2 Positionierung Lamelle Update ER 14 Ausgang 3 Positionierung Lamelle Data Type niet gespecifieerd b Read on Init T 15 Ausgang 4 Positionierung Lamelle ER 16 Sicherheit 1 Sicherheit ER 17 Sicherheit 2 Sicherheit E3 18 Sonnenschutz 1 Sonnenschutz E 19 Sonnenschutz 2 Sonnenschutz 14 2 IP Cameras You can open the cameras txt file in the File menu e The default text editor of your system will be used to open the file e Be careful to keep the format of the file e Be sure you save your
63. rance France Paris Texas United States Of America Paris New Hampshire United States Of America Cancel OK If your city is not in the list or is not recognized try with some other bigger city in the neighborhood 8 2 2 Login Password If you want to protect your project in the HomeSoft Viewer you can enter a password for the project When the project starts up in the viewer it will ask for the password Only if you can provide the correct password your project will open HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 20 Carrier lt 12 01 AM C Cancel HomeSoft Viewer Done 8 2 3 iPod iPhone Status bar color You can choose between a black and a gray status bar for the iPhone iPad Carrier lt 12 08 AM Monday 24 December 2012 Sint Martens Latem Carrier gt 12 08 AM Monday 24 December 2012 Sint Martens Latem HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 21 9 Buttons and Icons Go to the Icons section ay Y 4 ActionLists Edit Execute i Devices Project Icons By default some predefined icons will already be available for you in the project If needed you can add your own icons use the button in the right Icons window Icons are used for buttons in your project Buttons can be used for both changing and status reporting of a device value 9 1 Button Types 9 1 1 Static
64. read flag ON The best place to set the read flag is on the KNX switching modules and the KNX dimming modules For room temperatures you will need to set the read flag in the temperature module for each room HL 1 1 1 Scnaltaktor srach mit Hand 164 C Last REG E A 1 1 2 Schaltaktor 8fach mit Hand 164 C Last REG P 0 Ausgang 1 Schalten sb 1 Ausgang 2 Schalten E 2 Ausgang 3 Schalten P 3 Ausgang 4 Schalten ER 4 Ausgang 5 Schalten Object bewerken TR 5 Ausgang 6 Schalten TR 6 Ausgang 7 Schalten Functie Schalten Vlaggen 7 Ausgang 8 Schalten 7 Ausgang 8 Schalten ER 12 Ausgang 1 R ckmeldung ET Low Read e Write P 13 Ausgang 2 R ckmeldung ml 14 Ausgang 3 R ckmeldung OT t E 15 Ausgang 4 R ckmeldung Lengte 1 bit ne pdate P 16 Ausgang 5 R ckmeldung CH 17 Ausgang 6 R ckmeldung Data Type niet gespecifieerd w nead C P 18 Ausgang 7 R ckmeldung P 19 Ausgang 8 R ckmeldung 1 1 3 Universal Dimmaktor 2Fach REG 1 1 4 Bin reingang fach 24Y REG 1 1 5 Jalousieaktor 4Fach 230v Hand REG A 1 1 6 Helligkeitssensor 3Fach i amam um i l E le HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 64 In certain situation you will also need to activate the Transmit flag This is e g needed for shutter position If you want the shutter device to transmit the new position of the shutte
65. s down press ok Wert 29 0x1D Wert 30 0x1E teletext press exit Wert 31 0x1F Wert 32 0x20 Abbrechen Expert Mode manuelle zuordnung Werte zurucksetzen Once your KNX IR device is configured and operational we now need to use this data in our HomeSoft Editor project First we need to add the KNX address into our devices list use the button in the lower left corner and give it a good name In our example we will call the device IR address Remember that our KNX address was 10 0 1 You can immediately test out if it works by sending a certain value to the IR device In our screenshot example we will send a value of 18 to the KNX IR device which had been defined as Channel UP Devices Name Minimum Maximum Value Lighting Heating Ground Floor Heating First Floor p Shutters Y Multimedia IR Y IR main Address Address Type IR address 10 0 1 Value HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy Import from ETS Find Single Device Find Multiple Devices Request Data Editing Address 10 0 1 Name IR address Type Value Minimum 0 Maximum 255 Send Value Send Data Toggle Data www homesoftsolutions com 86 If we want to use IR control in our project and assign these to some buttons we can only do this by using action lists and we nee
66. t will be Action List Name All lights OFF 2 Send Data cellar Set Value to 0 3 Send Data celler stairhall Set Value to 0 4 Send Data office general Set Value to 0 5 Send Data hall wall gt Set Value to 0 6 Send Data outside side D Set Value to 0 7 Send Data outside terras Set Value to 0 8 Send Data outside garage Set Value to 0 9 Send Data office 1 Set Value to 0 10 Send Data office 2 Set Value to 0 11 Send Data outside side F Set Value to 0 12 Send Data office 3 Set Value to 0 13 Send Data outside main door Set Value to 0 14 Send Data night lights Set Value to 0 15 Send Data living floor Set Value to 0 16 Send Data dining spots Set Value to 0 17 Send Data kitchen fridge Set Value to 0 18 Send Data kitchen central Set Value to 0 19 Send Data laundry central Set Value to 0 20 Send Data master dressing Set Value to 0 21 Send Data outside living side Set Value to 0 22 Send Data BathRoom side Set Value to 0 22 Cand Mata a Ninina cantral Car Mala ta 10 3 2 Execute Action List Try In an action list you can also execute other action lists If e g you have an action list to switch off all your lights inside your house and another action list to switch off all lights outside your house you can create a new
67. text alignment e Change the font e Change the size e Change the colors HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 49 You will need to switch to the select tool and select the text object if you want to change its parameters See section 11 6 1 2 Changing properties of the selected objects HomesSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 50 M 11 6 4 The Shapes Tool With the shapes tool you can draw rectangles ellipse circles triangles Jus click and drag to create the object Press Shift for proportional shapes Press R while dragging to change the object Shape rectangle ellipse polygon Note that if the grid is active your shape will be positioned on grid points HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 51 w 11 6 5 The Camera Tool mua Click or draw a rectangle to place a camera object You can always resize your camera object later with the transform tool A camera object will be created A camera object has the following parameters E MALE IMA AA _ J T g 4 Devices Project Icons ActionLists Edit i Execute Type CAMERA URL admin password 192 169 1 100 90 Frequency msec 1000 Type Unknown Q URL Type in the IP address or URL of your camera Ifthe postis not the default port 80 you can specify the port If you want to access a camera from o
68. text tool is active the select all function will select deselect the complete text in the text object you are editing If the path Tool is active the select all function will select deselect all the path points of the path you are editing HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 38 11 5 The View Menu 11 5 1 Technical Preview meta Y You can choose between colored mode or technical mode The technical mode shows only the bounding boxes of the objects In many cases the technical mode is a better choice for positioning and selecting objects 11 5 2 Show hide grid meta G Will show or hide the grid The grid size and color can be set in the preferences Showing the grid means the grid is activated When the grid is activated moving or creating objects will follow the grid points Use the technical preview and the transform tool with the activated grid to position or align different objects In the transform tool you can also use the arrow Keys to snap the selected objects to the grid points 11 5 3 Show hide KNX addresses meta N This option has 3 states Activating this option will show the KNX address of the button objects and dynamic text objects if an address has been assigned to it If activated again it will show the KNX address description This mode will also show the names of the action lists or system actions which have been assigned to button or text objects Ho
69. the icon is transparent you will still see the underlying light button Now attach the action list to this transparent button Because this transparent button is on top pressing at this position will execute the action list and if the action list changes the status of the light the light button will change HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 84 15 5 Controlling your Video and Audio with an KNX InfraRed Device The HomesSoft sotware can only control IR devices if your KNX network contains a KNX IR module The KNX IR module can receive KNX messages and these messages will be translated to an infrared signal that can control any Infrared based system like TV Amplifiers radio DVD player Home cinema This explanation is based on the Komtech KNX IR module This module can send IR signals but can not get any feedback of the current value status of IR controls The Komtech software is easy to use and basically consists of 2 steps 1 Learning the IR commands You need to learn all the IR command you will need in your project Use all your existing remote controls to send IR signals to your Komtech device and they will be registered into the software You need an RS232 link between your computer and the Komtech KNX IP device to do this EIBIR IR Data IR Befehl Index Hersteller Model IR Funktion Taste IR Lernmodus Sperrzeit Repeat IR Sendetest of IR Comma
70. tons This is also a dynamic button and can be used for Dimmers shutters temperatures Which icon will be shown will depend on the value of the attached device A Multi Icon button has more than 2 states How it works Lets take an example of a dimming light which will be attached to a Multi icon button in this example 7 icons states Depending on the value of the dimmer one of the icons will be shown The first and the last icon in the list will be used for 0 and for 100 the minimum and the maximum value All intermediate values will be equally divided between the other icons 5 in this example 0 1 20 40 60 80 99 100 Note that you can also press or drag on a multi icon button The pressed position on the icon will be used to calculate the percentage and that value will be send to the KNX device So if you press in the middle of the icon your dimmer will be set to 50 HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 23 9 2 Creating New Buttons Adding new icons can be done using the button in the right icon pool section Select one or more images with the file browser All supported image types are allowed Ifyou select just one icon image in the file browser it will be added to the icon pool right part of the screen and automatically be added in the Single Icon Buttons list on the left If you select more than one image in th
71. tons 22 E Edit existing text 49 Edit Menu 36 Editing an existing path 47 ETS 15 64 G Goto Page 31 Graphic Object Parameters 45 Graphic Objects 33 grid 39 Group 37 Group Objects 35 Image Formats 7 Image Object Parameters 45 Image Objects 34 Image Tool 54 Importing devices 15 Installing 8 L license 9 10 M Multi Icon buttons 23 N NAT 68 O Object Types 33 ON OFF 17 Operating Systems 7 P Path tool 47 PERCENT 18 Point select 41 predefined page sizes 19 R Rectangle select 41 Resize MaximalHeight 37 Resize MaximalSize 37 Resize MaximalWidth 37 Resize MinimalHeight 37 Resize MinimalSize 37 Resize MinimalWidth 37 Resize the text rectangle 49 S Select 41 Send backward 36 Send to back 36 Shapes Tool 51 Shortcuts 32 Splines 47 Static button 22 T Technical Preview 39 TEMPERATURE 18 Text Formatting 42 Text objects 33 Text Parameters 41 Text tool 49 Tools 40 Transfer 62 Transform 41 HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy Transforming objects 46 Translations 67 TRIAL MODE 12 trial version 9 U Undo redo 36 Ungroup 37 V VALUE 18 View Menu 39 VPN 72 W Weather 20 26 Wind Direction 26 Windows 8 7 Windows XP 7 www homesoftsolutions com 90
72. utside the local network you can also enter the URL of the camera Examples 192 168 1 100 192 168 1 100 8080 mycamera21 dyndns home com Ifyou are using a password protection for your camera you can add the username and password in the URL field like this Username password 192 168 1 100 Frequency This field will determine the refresh rate of the camera images The default value is 1000 milliseconds so one image every second For cameras in your local network you can decrease the refresh rate to a minimum of 50 milliseconds 20 images per second Type The HomeSoft Editor will automatically detect the correct camera type if the camera type is in the default camera list which is provided with the Software We only support cameras using JPEG images The following types of JPEG cameras are supported automatically o Axis HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 52 Mobotix D link Canon Gradspot Linksys Panasonic Sony WebcamXP O O O O O O O O When you enter the IP address or URL of a camera the software will immediately try to recognize the camera type Detecting Camera Type Canon w If the correct type was found the camera type will shown If no matching camera type was detected the camera type will be set to UNKNOWN You can always force a new automatic camera type detection by using the camera search button q If your camera was not detected
73. white house home icon will go to the home page To achieve this we drag any button on the page Move and scale it to the correct size and position with the transform tool Center Double click on the correct action in this case goto start page to apply that action to the button Dawe Goto Page Star Center The last step is to select the button and use the move to back function edit menu arrange or right mouse click to move it to the background a Date CE Goto Page Start page S Gor Page Star HomeSoft Editor Manual KNX control finally made easy www homesoftsolutions com 78 15 3 Controlling your heating 15 3 1 Introduction Note This example is based on the Berker B IQ device but other devices operate in a similar way In most KNX heating control devices you have the following parameters The measured temperature The base temperature The Asked temperature The mode The measured temperature is just the local temperature which is measured by the sensor inside your device The Asked or sometimes called shown temperature is the temperature which you ask for this room and this is also the asked temperature that is shown on the display of your device Normally your device contains push buttons to increase or decrease this value The Base temperature is similar to the Asked temperature but can be different This is e g the case during the night When your device switc

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