Download and handle devices based on their KNX Serial Number

New features

User Interface & Functionality

• Download and handle devices based on their KNX Serial Number
• Project semantic export

ETS SDK

• RF Multi-specific properties and methods are now available for use
• Block of all ETS actions on a device instance via ETS SDK (not applicable for DCAs)
• New options to delete and park additional individual addresses
• The last received telegram 'AdditionalInfo' is now available for use
• New feature to allow control of the undo transactions in online scripts

Improvements

User Interface & Functionality

• User Experience
• A 'Close panel' button has been added next to the panel selector
• Enhanced context of linked group objects
• Display of the selected items in the list view tab counter pill
• New options in the navigation 'Open in a new panel', 'Open in a new tab', 'Open in a new window'
• All devices of a project (even those that are not assigned to a room) are now shown when clicking the root element of the 'Buildings' panel
• Reports - A new filter option is available that allows to filter out the automatically created project traces
• Search folders
• Rename of the 'Dynamic Folders' to 'Search Folders'
• Possible to expand the Search Folders
• Counter indication showing the contained results
• New default Search Folder 'Cabinets'
• The Search Folders are always shown on top of the tree-view
• The default Search Folders 'Initial devices' and 'Modified devices' are merged
• Project archive
• Additional information shown on the project entries 'Locked by', 'Locked since', 'Last synchronized'
• New filter option 'Checked out by'
• The 'Unlocked' icon on the project tiles has been removed
• New option 'Lock the archive copy for others' when being in Collaboration mode and the option 'Keep local copy' is selected
• Licensing
• Rename 'Computer' to 'Cloud'
• Performance improvements in case of having many licenses in an account
• Diagnostics
• Programming Mode - New scan option 'Whole installation'
• Line Scan
• It's now possible to select specific segments
• Scanning an RF segment also searches for SLE devices
• Scanning in RF segments always scans on 'Slow'
• Scanning in RF segments continues until no more responses are coming in
• Group monitor
• An indication for active real-time logging is shown in the monitor status bar
• Possible to filter messages from SLE devices when an RF Multi interface is used
• Display an error message when encrypted messages have been selected to be replayed
• Two new filter criteria (Building Function, Building part) in the monitor options
• For conditions that hide telegrams there is an indication shown in the monitor
• When the amount of recorded telegrams reaches 90k, there is an indication shown for the maximum amount that can be shown
• When clearing the telegrams, it's now possible to select to not be asked again for confirmation
• Display of current interface configuration in the status bar
• Device info
• If the entered individual address matches that of a device in the project and Device Info finds that the addressed device is in secure mode, try with the Loaded Tool Key from the project
• The read-out individual address from the device is shown in the 'General' (for the master-reset devices)
• 'Connection selection' dialog
• The status information of the tried interfaces has been added to the list of interfaces
• The KNX Serial Number of the interface is now included in the list
• The checkbox 'Use for future operations' is now enabled by default
• It's possible to select an interface by double clicking
• Multiple RF Multi enhancements
• Support of RF Multi USB interfaces
• Handling of additional individual addresses
• It is now possible to park unused tunnelling interfaces in order to save individual addresses on the line
• When copying a device with additional individual addresses, the additional individual addresses follow now the default/selected copy strategy of the main address
• An icon for the DCA tab has been introduced
• Manufacturer-specific icons are now shown in the 'Catalog' and the App menus
• When multiple projects are selected in the Project List or the Project Archive, the amount of projects is shown in the sidebar
• The button 'Hide Online Catalog items' from the 'Catalog' panel has been removed
• The button 'Address Free' is now disabled for modern KNX/IP interfaces
• When switching to the 'Catalogs' panel, the 'Favorites' section is now shown
• Visual feedback has been added to the tree-view items when using keyboard navigation
• The checkbox style has been updated
• Extended handling of non-unique KNX Serial Numbers
• Device data persistence enhancements

Bug fixes

User Interface & Functionality

• KNX Secure
• When trying to activate the programming mode of a secure device, which was also part of another project, it did not show any error message
• User Experience
• Search filter was not applied when the tree-view node selection changed
• It was not possible to search a value from dropdown lists in parameters using the keyboard (in the parameter dialog)
• Find and replace did not rename group addresses from different middle groups
• Selection in DCA list view caused exception messages under certain conditions
• Delete option is disabled from the menu bar when a DCA tab is opened
• The keyboard shortcuts were incorrectly processed when working in a DCA
• The calculation of the filter tables was very slow during download
• Linking a group address to a group object could take longer than expected
• Sidebar was broken after connecting via remote desktop to a PC with a running ETS6
• The search results of the 'Groups' container in the sidebar are now aligned with the list view search
• Licensing - Cloud licensing workflows did not always correctly assign a license to a session/workset
• ETS froze when deleting the maximum number of main, middle and group address
• The multi-selection of identical parameters was not displayed correctly in the parameter dialog
• The USB interface was not properly recognized after a power cut
• Update application program did not work for devices in segments
• The context menu (in the List view) did not always show the right content
• The 'Edit' menu entries in the main toolbar were blank when the device parameter dialog was opened
• 'Connection selection' dialog - When the name of a KNX/IP interface changed, the name was not shown immediately in the list of interfaces, but only after ETS restart
• The display of the 'Shortcuts' page in the ETS settings was not displayed correctly when the Windows screen scaling was higher than 100%
• Reports
• It was not possible to open an export of Excel format
• It was not possible to make an export of Word format
• In some rare situations the Single device report showed an incorrect message
• Diagnostics
• Line Scan - Scanning the individual address of a semi-directional device took longer than expected
• Group monitor
• Writing to a group address with datapoint type 240.800 set the wrong attribute bits 'ValidHeightPos' and 'ValidSlatsPos'
• The time period input for the datapoint types 7.2 until 7.7 and 8.2 until 8.7 was incorrect
• The options to write a value to a group address having the generic datapoint type '1-bit' were disabled
• The options for the settings are not visible in languages where the strings are too long
• The statistics were not updated in real time
• Extended Copy App - The device description was not renamed

ETS SDK

• The ETS SDK function GroupCommunicationReadSync did not work for plain group addresses