Hi, it would be great to have blind controls as well as "displays", which show EIS5/EIS6, date, time values in a certain format.
(leading zeros, signs, comma values, percentage etc.)
I want to have this to (digitally) show temperature, wind-speed, light-values of an eib weather-station in the web-interface.
Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Jens
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For the blinds control, it's not very clear to me what's the interface. I heard about some blinds with only a couple of on/off objects to control them. Other have EIS6 (0-100%) and/or EIS2 (up/down/stop) controls.
Displays with time and date re-formatting will be available in KnxWeb 0.5. I enhanced the text control. Now you'll have to insert a $1 in the "format" field where the object value has to be inserted. You will also be able to match some portions of the object value using regular expressions. For example, format="Date: $3/$2/$1" and pattern="(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)" will display "Date: 29/04/2008".
KnxWeb 0.5 will also allow to create HTML controls containing any HTML code (allows to embed camera pictures, weather forecast, youtube videos or wathever you want)
GREAT! I'll try it the next days! At the end my wife will also be able to control the home :-)))
(and understand, what can be done with the expensive things and devices in our home :-)
Again: linknx and knxweb (and eibd) are really great things - Thank you so much for your time and efforts!
For the blind control I'll send a description of the parameters tomorrow (i.e. later today :=)
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just to make clear, what I'm talking about. (I'm not a native speaker)
In terms of "blinds", 2 possible options exists:
1) Shutters: the external hard-covers of windows, which can just go up and down.
2) blinds: mainly internal, in addition to up/down, they also have an angel to open/close
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_blind)
I just have "shutters".
The device I use to control the shutters is a Busch Jager 6997/60 for Powernet (which can be used for both types)
It understands the following commands (written from a sensor)
1) Move (EIS1)
2) change angle / stop (EIS1)
3) windspeed alarm (EIS1)
4) enable/block (EIS1)
5) Set value (EIS6)
And sends the following status (send by the device)
6) feedback-value for shutter (EIS6)
7) feedback-value for angel (EIS6)
To Open/close the shutter, (1) is send with a value 0 for up and 1 for down
(this is generated by a long touch on a rocker of a sensor)
Opening/closing is stopped by sending a different object (2)
(This is generated by shortly touching the rocker of a sensor on one side)
After changing the position, the device writes back values (6) and (7)
as 1 byte values.
To implement a shutter/blind control, something similar to a "dimmer" control is needed.
With the difference, that
a) "up" and "down" arrows are used instead of "+/-"
b) commands are send differently
in addition, a possibly feedback value could be shown, either graphically (change on picture) or digitally as percentage of how closed as blind is. (100%=closed)
(This could possibly done with the new display controls?)
Optionally a "slider" control or a control to set a value directly (5) would be nice.
Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Jens
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Hi, it would be great to have blind controls as well as "displays", which show EIS5/EIS6, date, time values in a certain format.
(leading zeros, signs, comma values, percentage etc.)
I want to have this to (digitally) show temperature, wind-speed, light-values of an eib weather-station in the web-interface.
Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Jens
Hi,
For the blinds control, it's not very clear to me what's the interface. I heard about some blinds with only a couple of on/off objects to control them. Other have EIS6 (0-100%) and/or EIS2 (up/down/stop) controls.
Displays with time and date re-formatting will be available in KnxWeb 0.5. I enhanced the text control. Now you'll have to insert a $1 in the "format" field where the object value has to be inserted. You will also be able to match some portions of the object value using regular expressions. For example, format="Date: $3/$2/$1" and pattern="(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)" will display "Date: 29/04/2008".
KnxWeb 0.5 will also allow to create HTML controls containing any HTML code (allows to embed camera pictures, weather forecast, youtube videos or wathever you want)
If you want to give it a try, the release candidate is here:
http://ouaye.net/linknx/other/knxweb-0.5RC3.tar.gz
If no major issue is found, I'll release it officially in the next days.
Kr,
Jean-François
GREAT! I'll try it the next days! At the end my wife will also be able to control the home :-)))
(and understand, what can be done with the expensive things and devices in our home :-)
Again: linknx and knxweb (and eibd) are really great things - Thank you so much for your time and efforts!
For the blind control I'll send a description of the parameters tomorrow (i.e. later today :=)
Jean-François,
just to make clear, what I'm talking about. (I'm not a native speaker)
In terms of "blinds", 2 possible options exists:
1) Shutters: the external hard-covers of windows, which can just go up and down.
2) blinds: mainly internal, in addition to up/down, they also have an angel to open/close
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_blind)
I just have "shutters".
The device I use to control the shutters is a Busch Jager 6997/60 for Powernet (which can be used for both types)
It understands the following commands (written from a sensor)
1) Move (EIS1)
2) change angle / stop (EIS1)
3) windspeed alarm (EIS1)
4) enable/block (EIS1)
5) Set value (EIS6)
And sends the following status (send by the device)
6) feedback-value for shutter (EIS6)
7) feedback-value for angel (EIS6)
To Open/close the shutter, (1) is send with a value 0 for up and 1 for down
(this is generated by a long touch on a rocker of a sensor)
Opening/closing is stopped by sending a different object (2)
(This is generated by shortly touching the rocker of a sensor on one side)
After changing the position, the device writes back values (6) and (7)
as 1 byte values.
To implement a shutter/blind control, something similar to a "dimmer" control is needed.
With the difference, that
a) "up" and "down" arrows are used instead of "+/-"
b) commands are send differently
in addition, a possibly feedback value could be shown, either graphically (change on picture) or digitally as percentage of how closed as blind is. (100%=closed)
(This could possibly done with the new display controls?)
Optionally a "slider" control or a control to set a value directly (5) would be nice.
Thanks in advance, Best Regards, Jens