Deprecated
Released 16 December 2016, build 871
New features
User interface & Functionality
A search field has been added to the Dashboard. The active Projects as well as the Project Archive can now be filtered.
Panel detail view can now be printed. In the toolbar from the Panels, there is now a new printing button. This button will print the current view (active filters will be applied).
New 'Read' and 'Write' menu item in the context menu for Group Addresses. A user can now write directly an enum value to the bus (e.g A Group Address has been assigned the “DPT 1.001 Switch”. A user can now select between an “On” or an “Off” over the context menu). If the Datapoint Type is not an enum, a user gets a new dialog, where one can enter the values manually. ('Dimming' Datapoint Types display a dimming control, 'Colour' Datapoint Types a color picker, etc.)
Extension of the command line of ETS, so that it is possible to start, import a project and open it with an ETS App in maximized mode.
ETS SDK
A new method has been added in order to retrieve the number of allowed number of devices in a project.
A new method providing a 'Link proposal' with input 'Device or Channel' and 'Function'.
The method 'Root.UnifiedManufacturers' has now access to Online Catalog as well.
Improvements
User interface & Functionality
Possibility for multiple selection of the troubleshooting options to ease the clean-up procedure.
The codepage for a newly created project is now set to “Windows System Language”.
Improved handling of the diagnostic panel. When diagnostic operations are in progress (e.g. line scan or scanning for devices in programming mode) a user cannot perform any download operation in order to avoid unexpected bus behavior.
The “Download” button in the context toolbar is now split into two parts, one performs partial download for a selected device and the other part shows the available download options.
The operation “Reload last workspace” is also shown in the progress dialog when opening a project.
ProductStore and ProjectStore cannot share the same folder path (or subfolder) anymore.
Improved speed of the delete operation, when multiple lines are deleted.
3 dots added when a text in detail view is truncated.
The KNX Serial Number is now taken into account when selecting target devices for direct IP connections.
Smart Linking: Functions can now be linked with device channels. This allows the user a faster linking between Group Addresses and Group Objects. The ETS “remembers” the user created associations and applies them for the same device type.
Improved workflow for changing an Individual Address of a device.
Handling of KNX Secure in ETS
KNX IP Secure, use of Tunnelling v2 to clearly address secure tunnelling connections.
KNX Data Secure, show messages that are easy to understand when using secure devices in conjunction with many secured Group Addresses.
Extension of the Local Factory Reset of secure devices.
KNX Secure Device certificates can only be added in a project, if the project is password protected.
KNX Secure Device certificates cannot be deleted, if they are assigned to a downloaded secure device (The Loaded Tool Key must be set). The user should disable the security on the device in order to delete the certificate.
The download of a secure device triggers the “Enter device certificate” window dialog.
When importing a product/project from a higher ETS version, ETS now displays a related error message with the ETS schema version, so that the user is aware of the reason for the import failure.
Improved USB behavior
Ignore unexpected bus communication on USB initialization.
Improved USB connection behavior by ETS when having unstable bus connectivity at the USB interface.
Improved memory footprint when using the ETS App Extended Copy.
Speed-up of download with very long, but sparely filled segments.
Additional IP rules have been added for the Project check function.
The width search box of the monitor is now the same as in the other panels.
Merge of the IP devices that were shown twice in the connection manager because of the use of “SearchReq” and “SearchReqEx”
Create a simple user dialog for editing the “Link Proposal”
Adaption of the network latency setting for secure IP backbone.
Call the “LinkWith” dialog with proposal from “LinkProposalOperation”.
The transactional saving for the product and project store has been optimized.
Bug fixes
User Interface & Functionality
- Copy/Paste: The Group Addresses were not in the same order.
- A “Compatibility-Warning” was missing when copying device(s) with plug-ins across projects in native mode.
- When selecting devices from rooms of different levels, they are shown twice.
- The ETS App window was hidden, when many ETS Apps had been installed.
- Scanning for devices in programming mode did not stop when starting any online operation.
- Name of the additional Address is not correctly displayed in the bus monitor.
- Scanning line 15.15 was an endless loop.
- Programming a world Coupler 0.0.0 from USB was not possible.
- World Coupler can now only be used on a TP backbone.
- When switching parameters, there were “Exception errors” shown.
- Incorrect error message when trying to assign an already assigned Individual Address.
- Project check: There was an incorrect check for Couplers and Power Supplies.
- Parameter-dependent help topic Id was not able to open.
- There was a “NotSupportedException Error” during Extended Copy.
- The error message for “KnxCommunicationException” was not localized.
- Exception when a GroupValueWrite is received during a Bus.ReadValue.
- Device unload over the diagnostic panel did not work.
- Changes on “Device.CheckSum” & “Device.LoadedImage” were not undoable.
- The Priority column in the monitors displayed incorrect values.
- Extended Copy copies wrong parameter values.
- The language of device channels was not updated.
- Error when restoring workspaces.
- Unused objects in “System B” devices were downloaded with a wrong type.
- Dialog windows were displayed behind floating panels and thus they were not visible.
- The hyperlink navigation of the project check did not work. Navigation to the backbone and main lines was not possible.
- Incorrectly allowed to create an Area with medium type IP under a Backbone Area with medium type TP.
- Scrolling on the diagnostic panel in the line scan view was not possible when many panels were open.
- Float values with a point delimiter (.) used a different value converter than float values with a comma delimiter (,).
- The parameter dialog did now check the entered values. The defined parameter range was able to be exceeded by user input or by the SDK.
- The formatting of the DoA in the “Interface check” dialog was not displayed as hexadecimal number.
- There were missing arrows for the “Parameter” dialog scrollbars.
- It was not possible to save comments on Group Addresses (when selecting the Group Address in a function).
- In the “Parameter” dialog, when data context has changed the value was not submitted.
- When changing the address of the additional address/tunneling address, the programming flag "Cfg" was not reset.
- The WriteProperty did not work if the passed array was too long.
- During operations with secure Group Addresses, the Group flags were not reset.
- There was an error message “Sequence contains no matching element”, when trying to create a project using the project wizard and having central functions.
- When using the ETS App Extended Copy, it was not possible to copy a secure Router to “All Devices”.
- The “TextParameterRefId” was ignored on Channels.
- When canceling a move operation of devices that had additional Individual Addresses, the Individual Addresses were duplicated.
- Devices that have as medium type “TP” and “PL” in their product databases, were not able to be linked to Extended Group Addresses in projects with only “TP” line(s).
- The menu from the “Monitor” panel did not have the same style as the rest floating windows.
- The Panel toolbar disappeared, when the workspace “All devices” had been selected and the “Parameter” dialog was opened and the user switched to the Group Address panel.
- The Textparameters did not reflect the UTF-8 Byte size for characters like umlauts, Cyrillic, Greek or Chinese.
- Incorrect handling of the set “FunctionText” and text at “GO-Instance”.
- Added a retry on Application Layer to make the communication more error-resilient and to work around some device issues.
- Some devices were not able to be used as template in the ETS App “My products template”.
- Some devices were not correctly filtered after a download from the Online Catalog.
- The Compatibility Check did not handle old System 300 devices specially.
- After a product import from OnlineCatalog, the ProjectStore was sometimes marked as “Corrupt data”.
- Changing a device name re-sets the “Cfg” flag.
- The last used workspace was not used when launching ETS.
- When restoring a workspace, the collapsed sidebar was not reconstructed.
- When linking a Group Object to a Group Address with different size “SizeInBit”, ETS asked “Link anyway?”
- ETS hanged when replying “No” to “Serial number is already associated” dialog.
ETS SDK
The SDK was not allowed to set or generate secure keys.
“ReplaceDevice” did not replace devices from the “MyProduct templates” with the SDK.
DCA Add-in data was not deleted from the store itself. The Add-in data itself in the file system is deleted after “restarting” the Add-in.
Missing Dispose function as event for DCA Apps, when switching the Content Panel or when closing the ETS5.
It was not possible to store function text and text values using ETS SDK.
The attribute value for “DownloadInvisibleParameters” in the SDK was incorrect.