This driver serves for communication by the
KNX protocol.
See
Communication by the KNX protocol.
The driver is used for transmitting KNX telegrams via the
KNXnet/IP router (so-called
KNXnet/IP routing -
service 0530h,
ROUTING_INDICATION).
The
PmaCommGroup object can be used in the PROMOTIC application to send
Master messages (read and write) to
KNXnet/IP router.
The
PmaCommMsg object can be used to receive
Slave message sent from the
KNXnet/IP router without active request from the PROMOTIC application.
Before using this driver in the PROMOTIC application it is highly recommended to read the chapter:
Communication using the PROMOTIC drivers.
Basic properties of the driver:
- Usage of this driver requires purchase of the
PmKNX licence. With the freeware version
PmFree, or when developing the application (with
development environment for testing purposes), this component is always functional.
- The communication is done for Ethernet (PROMOTIC application is client).
Recommended parameters values of the PmaComm object:
| Network address | 224.0.23.12
It is IP multicast address of the KNXnet/IP interface (can be changed).
The multicast address is a logical identifier of a group of hosts in a computer network that are available for processing datagrams.
Multicast address communication represents communication with all hosts in the group (the "normal" IP address communicates only to a single host).
Multicast addresses are: - for IPv4: all IP addresses in the range from 224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255 - for IPv6: all IP addresses with prefix ff00::/8 |
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| TCP/UDP port number | 3671
It is for KNX Association officially registered IP port (can be changed). |
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| Ethernet transfer type | UDP |
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Description and recommended values for the Protocol parameters:
This configurator is not used for given driver.
The communication description by means of the PmaCommGroup object
The
PmaCommGroup objects can be used for this driver. For usual data transmissions it is more favourable than using the
PmaCommMsg object.
The variables in the
PmaCommGroup object (or even better the variables in the
PmaData object with
ExtComm data extension) can be of arbitrary number, type and order. The driver uses optimalised internal communication messages for reading the data from the device. Individual KNX telegram is sent for each variable being read.
All variables are read (if the "
Data refresh enabled" configurator is checked). When writing into the variable, only the single value is sent (if the "
Auto send when writing to item" configurator is checked).
Description of the "ItemID" configurator:
ItemId is the text identifier of the item that is used for addressing the value in the device. The "
ItemID" configurator tells the driver how to receive or send the item value.
The text can be written manually, or it can be assembled in the window opened by the button to the right of the configurator.
Macro expression can be used for input (it is evaluated after starting the application).
The
ItemId identifier general syntax is:
KnxType,AddrType,Addr,AddrWrite
where:
-
AddrType = Address type.
0 = Address Addr is used for read and write and AddrWrite is not defined
1 = Address Addr is used for reading and AddrWrite is defined for writing
- Addr = Group KNX address (group address) in the main/middle/sub format.
- AddrWrite = Address for writing.
Entered only if AddrType==1.
Entered only as the sub part of the KNX group address for writing (main and middle portion of the address is the same as in Addr)
Examples of identifier syntax:
1.018,1,2/1/80,81
Identifier
ItemId of the data type item
1.018 (=DPT_Occupancy, Boolean).
Item is for reading on address
2/1/80 and for writing on address
2/1/81.
| Check the write - back | Specifies how the result of the variable writing is checked. 1 - Without write control - The variable write is not checked. 2 - Only if the same KNX addresses are used for both Read and Write - Only the items that do not have AddrWrite defined in ItemId will be checked 3 - For all KNX addresses - All written items will be checked |
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The communication description by means of the PmaCommMsg object
The
PmaCommMsg object is used for receiving Slave messages and therefore
it is necessary to set the "Message type" configurator to "Slave".
List and description of the communication messages: There is only one message type:
Receiving messages that were not requested:
Reading "Slave messages", i.e. messages sent from the
KNXnet/IP router that were not actively requested.
There are following variables on the "
Data-received" tab:
MsgType - (Long) The received can be of read type (value 1) or write type (value 2)
SourceAddress - (String) KNX address of the device that have sent the message
TargetAddress - (String) KNX address of the device receiving the message
Value - (
String) The value sent in the message. The value is represented by
HexaString. It can be then processed e.g. by means of the
PmBuffer object (see the
PmBuffer.SetHexaString method).