ETS PROJECT IMPORTATION

INTRODUCTION

The software EVE Manager allow to import an ETS project in order to speed up the EVE project configuration.

Project importation procedure

Step 1:

Open you ETS software and click on the project you want to export and right click on it.

Once clicked on the export button a new window will apear, make sure the the extencion .knxproj is selected from the “Save as” drop down, then hit save.

Step 2:

Now open the EVE configuration software EVE Manager and head to the “tools” menu on top of the screen, then click on the “Import” side menu and finally click on “ETS project“.

Step 3:

Once you clicked on “ETS project” a new window will appear in the middle of the screen, in order to open the ETS project inside EVE Manager click on the “import” button on the top left corner of the importation window.

Step 4:

After loading the project hit next on the bottom right corner, here you will be able to set the keywards that the ETS wizard will use to pair the group addresses in order to create a single component in the EVE project with both group addresses already paired together. If this step is not set once the EVE project is created there will be two separate components, one with the write address and the other with the feedback. We suggest to choose keyword such as: Cmd for the comand address and Fb for the feedback one. This keywords will be checked on each of the name of the group addresses. This option can be toggled by checking or unchecking the check box “Enable feedback recognition based on text“.

Step 5:

After setting up the keywords you can directly Create the project or proceed with the configuration by clicking “advanced mode“, the advanced mode allows you to set rules and filters for the importation.

Step 6:

Once clicked “advanced mode” a new step will be open, in this step you will be able to add a ETS group names that the wizard won’t import inside the EVE project. You can even decide to ignore importing the empty groups by leaving the check box “ignore empty groups” selected.

Step 7:

This step allows you to make custom rules in order to not to import only the specified components that have the name added in the list below. In the example below the components that contains the characters “—” won’t be imported inside the EVE Manager project.

Step 8:

This step allows you to build custom group with custom components within the group. On the left side of the wizard you can set the “Keyword” that will be applyed as the name of the group. Then on the right side of the wizard allows you to create the actual Offsets that will be created within the group. You can choose which component will be created with its specific KNX addresses.

Also you will be able to apply a template to each offset, In order to apply a template you will need to add the component Map Template before importing the map template. This feature allows the association of the offsets directly into the component that are inside the Template.

Step 9:

This is the final step of the ETS import wizard, first disable the check box called “display undefined only“, because if you don’t it will display only the group addesses which the wizard has not been able to recognise the “Dpt” (Data type). On the left side of the screen you will be able to see all the groups created inside the ETS software. On the right instead it is displayed all the group addresses already associeted with eachother with the component that has been applyed based on the Dpt you gave them in the ETS configuration.

Manage project functions

The seventh step allows to get the full project preview before importing it inside your EVE project. Below the components screen some more options are shown, heres below each one of them explaned.