ETS v5.5.3

Released 16 December 2016, build 871

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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.