How can I make a dimmer in JMobile when connected to a KNX network?
June 10, 2017 by Will Blackwell

What to know

To operate a dimming function in JMobile, you need to work using the 3 Bits Controlled data type.
Actually this is a 4 bit data where the 1st bit is used to determine if increment or decrement the value and the remaining 3 bits determines the percentage of dimming applied.


What to do

The Tag will represent a fixed percentage value (from 0% to 100%) of increasing or decreasing of a particular device value.
The image below shows how the Tag is configured ad Tag Editor side.

The table below reports the action performed for each value assumed by the Tag.
For example, to increase the dimmed value of 25% it is necessary to write into the Tag that manages the dimming the binary value 1011, which in decimal code, corresponds to 11.

Direction
Data
Action
0
001
Down
100%
0
010
Down
50%
0
011
Down
25%
0
100
Down
12%
0
101
Down
6%
0
110
Down
3%
0
111
Down
1%
1
001
Up
100%
1
010
Up
50%
1
011
Up
25%
1
100
Up
12%
1
101
Up
6%
1
110
Up
3%
1
111
Up
1%

As per our example above to increase the dimmed value by 25% it is necessary to write 11 in the corresponding Tag, To do this a Write Tag action programmed as shown in the picture must be created.


Applies to

KNX TP/IP communication protocol

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