In order a license to appear as available in the guided licensing, it shall not have been activated yet and shall either belong to a personal MyKNX account or to have been assigned to the MyKNX account that is used for the software licensing.
Guided licensing
Manual licensing
Guided licensing
An active internet connection is needed, thus if this is not the case, please use the manual licensing as explained in Manual licensing - Dongle-based ETS6 App licenses.
Cloud-based ETS6 App licenses
1. Start your ETS6 and click on the 'Settings' button from the main toolbar on the Dashboard. Click afterwards on 'Licensing' in order to open the licensing window.
2. Select the computer on which the license shall be stored and click the 'Add a License' button in order ETS6 to connect in the background to the given MyKNX account, to fetch and display any available ETS6 App licenses.
3. Select the license you want to activate and click the 'Activate' button.
4. By doing that, ETS6 connects to the licensing server to verify the validity of the license, and then it stores it to the computer.
In order to use a licensed ETS App you need to install it first (Install ETS6 Apps).
If you would like to release the license from the computer where you are currently working (e.g. to work on another computer), then go to the 'Licensing' settings, select the license and click the 'Release license' button.
By doing that, the license is made available immediately for use on another computer. If not all licenses appear in the list, you can click the 'Refresh' button to fetch an updated license list.
Dongle-based ETS6 App licenses
1. Start your ETS6 and click on the 'Settings' button from the main toolbar on the Dashboard. Click afterwards on 'Licensing' in order to open the licensing window.
2. Select the dongle on which the license shall be stored and click the 'Add a License' button in order ETS6 to connect in the background to the given MyKNX account, to fetch and display any available ETS6 App licenses.
3. Select the license you want to activate and click the 'Activate' button.
4. By doing that, ETS6 connects to the licensing server to verify the validity of the license, and then it stores it to the dongle.
In order to use a licensed ETS App you need to install it first (Install ETS6 Apps).
After licensing an ETS6 App with a dongle, the ETS6 App license is only active if the KNX USB Licensing dongle is plugged into the computer, otherwise the ETS App appears as 'not licensed'.
Manual licensing
Dongle-based ETS6 App licenses
1. Start your ETS6 and run it in Demo mode. Click on the 'Settings' button from the main toolbar on the Dashboard. Click afterwards on 'Licensing' in order to open the licensing window.
2. Within the licensing window, the KNX USB Licensing dongle ID is shown. It contains the word 'KNX-' and 8 hexadecimal characters. Press the 'Copy Dongle ID' button to copy it to the clipboard.
3. Sign in to MyKNX (https://my.knx.org). Open the 'Account-->Products' section. The obtained ETS6 App licenses are listed in the 'Licenses' section.
4. Click the link 'Product License' of the respective product(s) and paste the KNX USB Licensing dongle ID that you copied from ETS6 in step 4. Once pasted, press the 'Add key' button in order to create the license.
5. After clicking the 'Add key' button, a link named 'Download License' appears. Clicking the link, triggers the download of a zip file. This zip file contains the actual license and is downloaded into the default 'Downloads' folder of the browser. Select your browser in order to locate the download folder.
6. Extract the content of the zip file, this is a file with the file extension '.license' and with a file name based on this pattern: '<ETS App name><License Number><Dongle ID>', where <License Number> is the license number of the license to be activated and where <Dongle ID> is either the KNX USB Licensing dongle ID.
7. Open your ETS6 and click on the 'Settings' button from the main toolbar on the Dashboard. Click afterwards on 'Licensing' in order to open the licensing window.
8. Click the 'Add License from file' button in order to locate the extracted license file.
9. Locate the license file, select it, then click the 'Open' button.
10. The ETS6 App license will be shown after a few seconds, which means that the ETS6 App is licensed and can be used.
In order to use a licensed ETS App you need to install it first (Install ETS6 Apps).
After licensing an ETS6 App with a dongle, the ETS6 App license is only active if the KNX USB Licensing dongle is plugged into the computer, otherwise the ETS App appears as 'not licensed'.