How to capture from KNX to BLGW?

18 replies

Aleksei wrote:

Thank you, Stefan,this is actually the solution.

So, the capturing still does not work, but it is actually not needed for me as is.

I have created the needed resources in BLGW (in my case Toggle button and Button works well) using the Group Addresses, already existing in ETS. And then created the macro, so when the resource is activated (set to 1 or 0), it triggers the event.

Hi Aleksei,

glad to read that it works for you! And thanks for the GIRA X1 link - I`m using also Xhome, a software by Xsolution.de - supporting KNX, LCN, Modbus, Siemens, Homematic, Enigma2 (Dreambox), Sonos (which I don`t use) unfortunately not supporting Beo - but you can control Beo via KNX through Xhome - great ui, you can draw your house into it and set lights, shades, termosthats, whatever right into it and control everything with full 2 way communication. Unfortunately Beolink/Beoliving app doesn`t even works 2 way for shades (KNX) - a bug in the shade button with status...

There is another system which looks interesting to me. RTI www.rticontrol.de supporting KNX (of course...) Russound, LG, Sonos, Sony, Meridian, whatever..unforunately not Beo).

Stefan

1990 wrote:

Could you share the ETS and BLx configurations with a screenshot?

I need to decide this month if I go for KNX in my new home so I am slightly anxious now.

You can go for KNX - no reason to be anxious - I`ver started with the ETS4 demo, it`s for free, and you can create small projects with 5 KNX devices (ETS5 demo). You just need an IP interface, a power supply and you can start with a single dimmactor (I started with a GIRA UP dimmactor with two integrated binary inputs - if you already have a BLGW, it helps.... this all should be no more than 350 Euros (?) - and now you have to learn about datapoints and group addresses - it`s not that difficult...

Hope this helps

Stefan

 

Khimo Support wrote:

Hello all, we appear to have arrived late to the party!

@Aleksei, glad to hear you got the system working with the addresses. There should not be a problem with the capture feature on the BLGW or on the BLI with KNX products. If you still wish to solve this particular issue please don't hesitate to contact us through here or at support@khimo.com so as to try and find any particularity in your installation that could be making it fail.

Hi,

why not post the KNX capture solution for BLGW/BLI here in the forum? As you can see, there are more people interested in KNX and Beo - thanks.

Stefan

Hi Stefan!
It's not that we don't want to share the solution 😳 The capture function should be working with KNX systems on both the BLI and the BLGW. Of course, there can be complexities in interactions inside an installation that may be hiding the events sent by a certain system, this is why we offer for any of you who may be having a problem of this kind to contact us directly, and it is very possible that we can help locate and solve it with specific information about the setup 🙂
The same goes for your issue with the feedback of shades w/status, it should be working! Feel free to contact us and we can look into your problem.

Khimo Support wrote:

Hi Stefan!
It's not that we don't want to share the solution 😳 The capture function should be working with KNX systems on both the BLI and the BLGW.

Thanks for your reply - that`s not what I thought..:) but it may be easier to share a solution here in public, that`s why the forum exists, I think.

Khimo Support wrote:

 

The same goes for your issue with the feedback of shades w/status, it should be working! Feel free to contact us and we can look into your problem.

My problem with the KNX shade is, that we have two different buttons for shades 1- SHADE without state (requires group addresses for up/down)

and 2- SHADE (requires group addresses for up/down and state) - the state of the shade is shown in the webpanel and on the resources state list and the monitor - means - it works! But there is no state info (in perecent like the dimmer state) in the Beoliving app - there is just aa up- a down- and a stop button.

(same as on the `Shade without state`).

Hope this makes sense...

I will also contact you through Test Flight - thanks

Stefan

 

Hi Steffan,

We recieved your TestFlight message! Yes, you are totally right about the lack of feedback on the shades in this case. We will be implementing this feature in a future release (soon)!

Great News! Thanks - looking forward to Version1.3.5 !

And sorry, Aleksei, for hijacking your thread about capturing KNX to BLGW..

Stefan

Khimo Support wrote:

Hello all, we appear to have arrived late to the party!

@Aleksei, glad to hear you got the system working with the addresses. There should not be a problem with the capture feature on the BLGW or on the BLI with KNX products. If you still wish to solve this particular issue please don't hesitate to contact us through here or at support@khimo.com so as to try and find any particularity in your installation that could be making it fail.

Hello,

Sorry, it took so long to reply. The reason of my silence is that everything just works in my setuo all this time, except rare problems with interconnections between systems, usually caused by changes in the IP addresses of the system.

(e.g. I have programmed "Away" button on Litron QSWS, that sends signl to BLGW, which, in turn, sends the signal to KNX to shut down lights in the bathroom. And sometimes it does not work. I clean it nowadays to make all addresses static at DHCP-server, so should be fixed soon).

And no, capturing of KNX still does not work, but I do not need it now.

But I will definetely write you if anything will go wrong :)

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