Standard Blind Drive Group

The standard Blind Drive Group combines multiple blind-drives to one group.

Blind Drives

Pressing the Edit-button within the Blind Drives-menu opens a window, where the single blind drives can be easily added to the group.

Online

Commands

Step Up: This command will lift all the blinds in the group for their individually entered Step Time.
Step Down: This command will lower all the blinds in the group for their individually entered Step Time.
Up: Let's all blinds in the group drive up.
Down: Let's all blinds in the group drive down.
Stop: All blinds will be stopped.
Safety Position Set: Driving to safety-position if activated. For this purpose, all the assigned blind drives will be moved up for their entered drive-time + 10%. No other commands except Safety Position Reset are accepted then.
Safety Position Reset: Releases the safety-position lock.
Set Position Direct: The blinds will be driven to a specific position. This position can either be given by shadowing-percentage and lamella-angle or in millimeters. The selected entry must be activated by pressing the corresponding Apply-button.
The angle is evaluated only by blind drives that support this feature.
Set Operating Mode: 6 different modes can be selected and activated by the Apply-button:
Normal: The drives can be accessed by all commands, described above. All the drives will be referenced. The blinds will be alternatingly moved up and down. The parameters for this mode are defined individually in the parameter-range of every single blind drive. The blind-lamellas will be turned to an angle, which is best for darkening the room. The blind-lamellas will be turned to an angle, which lets most of the sunlight pass. The blinds will be totally shut.

State

Average Position: Average position of all active (non-erroneous) blind drives. 100% means completely closed, 0% completely opened.
Number of Blind Drives: Number of drives assigned to this group.
Number of faulty Blind Drives: Number of drives which are in an error-state.
Number of Drive Up: Number of drives driving up.
Number of Drive Down: Number of drives driving down.

State PLC Module

Execution State: Shows if the module is running or stopped.
Error: In case of an error, the error code and the error parameter are displayed in this box.
Start/Stop: Starts/stops the module.