Hello Kropfm,
I was totally lost with this scene affair. So I've build a test environment, separated from production, in order to experiment with scenes.
Now, it is my understanding that individual push buttons are dedicated to scene numbers (PB1 is hardware wise dedicated to scene 1, no way to reconfigure/change it). Is that correct ?
I was totally lost with this scene affair. So I've build a test environment, separated from production, in order to experiment with scenes.
Now, it is my understanding that individual push buttons are dedicated to scene numbers (PB1 is hardware wise dedicated to scene 1, no way to reconfigure/change it). Is that correct ?
It all, of course, depends on the products and their implementations, but you can assign any scene number between 1 and 64 to a push button (which supports the scene 8 bit data type). You may also be able to define whether the learn feature is allowed or not (some people use scenes for central off and you wouldn’t want that to be changed). But you are not going to have multiple choices with push buttons; it’s assigned to one scene;-)
OK, I agree. But those "visualisation frontend" are usually part of a high-end supervisor, like the HS (or similar), which do offer much more elaborated alternatives, like sequences, in which case the ETS scenes are completely obsolete.
It doesn’t have to be as high-end and pricey as an HS, but a Zennio Z38i (a reasonably priced smallish touch panel) for example comes with 4 user definable pages, so you if I recall well, you end up with 24 soft push buttons (that should do for a test environment

I mean they (Izeman and Swiss) got a good and valid case, if they say KNX scenes are too static and too awkward to adjust. But switching a multitude of actuators’ outputs with one push button is quite a leap from today’s standard – if you think that only ‘yesterday’ we thought dimmers to be quite a neat idea;-) Maybe I'm too old and not smart enough, but I don't expect switches to read my mind and adjust their actions accordingly;-).
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