General parameters

The panel can be used both horizontally, in landscape format, and vertically, in portrait format.

When starting project planning you must accordingly select the installation position of the dis-play (portrait corresponds to 240 x 320 pixels and landscape to 320 x 240).

picture 6: Installation position in landscape format (horizontal)

picture 7: Installation position in portrait format (vertical)

The selected installation position and the available monitor dimensions then apply to the entire project planning. If the installation position is reconfigured, then all the other panel settings in the ETS plug-in are lost (deletion of all the pages and all additional settings). For this reason, the plug-in generates a warning when switching parameters. Only after the warning has been confirmed do the plug-in change the installation position.

Monitor display Colour schemes:

To allow easy adjustment of the display element visualisation and, at the same time, an easy to read display, the ETS plug-in provides eight different colour schemes. The first colour scheme is fixed. The other seven colour schemes can be changed as required. The "System colour

scheme" parameter in the "General" parameter group specifies the colour scheme for all the system pages and defines the presetting for each screen page newly created by the project planning. This higher-level colour scheme is termed "System" in the parameters of each screen page (see chapter 4.2.4.1.5. Colour schemes).

Scroll bar:

The individual screen pages and the display elements within a screen page can be arranged one beneath the other in a specific logic sequence. A scroll bar can be displayed on the right edge of the screen, using which it is possible to switch between the elements in a forwards and backwards direction.

- The two double arrows open the previous or the next screen page. You can specify which pages are jumped to with this navigation in the ETS plug-in.

- Within the current screen pages, the two single arrows activate the next or previous display element, assuming that multiple display elements can be selected.

If there is no previous or next element defined in the project planning, the appropriate arrow is automatically deactivated. The "Scroll bar" parameter in the "General" parameter group in the top parameter node specifies the basic properties of the scroll bar...

- "Always show" setting: the scrollbar can be seen on every screen page. It takes up space, even if no linked pages are planned.

- "Always hide" setting: the scrollbar cannot be seen on any screen page. In this case, it is not possible to navigate between the screen pages using the scroll bar.

- "Automatic" setting: the scroll bar is only shown when there is a previous or next page available, meaning that page navigation is required. Otherwise the scroll bar is hidden on a page created by the project planner.

i With the "Always show" and "Automatic" settings, the scroll bar can also be seen on some system pages.

Character set and keyboard layout:

In order to display texts in various languages on the screen, and, if necessary, input them, you need to set the character set (codepage) of the device and the assignment of the on-screen keyboard.

The "System character set" parameter in the "General" parameter group in the top parameter node specifies the character set used for all the system pages. In addition, each page created by the project planner can be configured separately with its own "character set". This configura-tion is then possible in each parameter node of a page. There the system character set

("System" setting) can also be used as a default setting, if, for example, the same character set is always used. However, it is also possible to used different character sets for pages.

Start page

The device initialises after switching on the mains power supply or after a programming opera-tion. During this time the Start screen is shown on the display. After initialisation, the panel auto-matically displays the screen page specified using the "Start page" parameter in the "General"

parameter group in the top parameter node. At this point, any page created by the project planer can be selected. Page 1 is the default Start page.

If, during operation, the panel is not operated for a specific period of time, there may be an auto-matic jump back to the Start page. For this, the "Autoauto-matically to Start page" parameter must be set to a return time.

Acoustic signal

The table can signal the reception of defined fault messages with an integrated piezo buzzer.

Such as signal is automatically terminated after a set time (parameter "Length of acoustic sig-nal").

In addition, the parameter "External object for acoustic signal" also allows the option of using the piezo buzzer independently of the fault message function. If the signal tone is switched on via the external object , then it must also be switched off via this object. All the other acoustic signals are suppressed during this time.

In this case, the piezo buzzer is not automatically switched off after the period of the "Length of

acoustic signal" parameter, meaning that there is a continuous tone, when controlled via the ex-ternal object (Object = 1: Buzzer ON / Object = 0: Buzzer OFF).

Bus communication

The following general settings influence the communication between the panel and other devices...

Telegram acknowledge:

A display element usually shows the current value of a communication object (e.g. ON or OFF).

If the communication object odes not possess a valid value, then the display element will just show a line of dashes "---" rather than the value in the display element.

Even if the panel does not receive an acknowledgement of another KNX/EIB bus subscriber - for example due to the operation of a display element - it displays this undefined status. The

"Telegram acknowledge" parameter allows you to use the "Not required for status display" para-meter to show a self-sent value, even without a valid acknowledgement. Caution: this setting may cause the panel to display values which deviate from the real status in the KNX/EIB sys-tem. Such cases may occur, for example, if a device has a longer initialisation phase and can-not react to telegrams during this period.

With the setting "Required for status display", an external acknowledgement of a sent telegram is always required until the panel displays a valid value in the display element.

Delays:

Directly after initialisation, the panel is unable to display the system status correctly. Only when a valid value has been transmitted or received does the display element change.

To be able display valid values as quickly as possible after a restart, the panel has the option of transmitting read requests to selected group addresses. Here it is important to note that differ-ent devices required differdiffer-ent lengths of time for initialisation, for example after the return of bus voltage. The read requests with the subsequent response telegrams may lead to an unexpec-tedly bus load. For this reason, you have the option of configuring the waiting time up to the first read request using the "Status poll delay after start" parameter. In addition, the "Delay between status polls" parameter ca be used to adjust the bus load resulting from a status poll, i.e. the time between two read telegrams.

Opening or closing light scenes also leads to a temporarily increased bus load. Here, the panel takes the parameter "Delay between light scene outputs" into account and increases the time between the individual light scene telegrams.

Limit values:

With display elements for counters or floating values, one top and one bottom limit value can be defined. If this monitoring is active, then the ETS plug-in displays the appropriate switching ob-jects. In normal operation, these limit value objects only send a telegram when the value of dis-play element exceeds or undershoots a configured limit value threshold. Because, after panel initialisation, the display elements do not usually possess a valid value, the "Transmit limit val-ues after initialisation" parameter allows telegram transmission of the limit value objects, as soon as the appropriate display element has receive a valid value

Password for PC Client software

The PC Client software is used by the end user to operate the panel from a PC. All the screen elements of the panel are displayed on the PC monitor and can be operated on the panel as if being done directly (remote communication). The user can also use the PC Client software to load various configuration data (IP settings, e-mail mailboxes, RSS newsfeeds) into the panel without requiring access to the ETS.

The communication connection between the PC Client software and the panel is protected by a password. With the PC Client software, the password is set in the device connection data (see chapter 4.3.1. Introduction, installation and program start). On the panel side, the password is configured in the ETS plug-in. The "Password for PC Client software" parameter in the top para-meter node in the "General" parapara-meter group allows the input of a password of maximum

16 characters. The box can also be left empty meaning that communication between the PC Cli-ent software and the panel takes place without password protection.

The password entered in the PC Client software and the panel must be identical. The password is encrypted in the communication connection, meaning that it is safe from sabotage.