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Switching actuator 10A/16A – Extended Status message
Extended Status message:
General Information:
The extended status message includes a lot of information about the actual state of the Switching
actuator for displaying purpose or further use of the information in intelligent devices.
Different to the old Status message (old actuator generation) the new extended Status message
has its own Status channel and can therefore be routed to intelligent devices by any other mains
supplied device that is capable of Routing (even old actuators).
The connection of the Status channel will be done automatically by the MRF if a Datapoint of an
intelligent device will be connected to the actuator input. The option of the status connection can
be activated/deactivated for each intelligent device in the configuration window of the actuator
function (deactivating can make sense to save datapoint-list entries, Routing entries etc. if the
status information is not needed). If there are multiple intelligent device connected to the actuator
the connection path of the Status channel will make sure that all device receive the status
information properly.
ATTENTION! The Connection of the new Status channel will only be supported by the following
devices:
Device Support with version
Room-Manager V41a (only for Outputs 1-10)
Smart Home Controller RF-V2.0
USB-RF-Comm.-Stick RF-V2.0
Ethernet CI RF-V2.0
Old USB-Komm.-Interface not supported
Home-Manager not supported
If there are connections to old intelligent devices that do not support the new extended Status
message the actuator will behave like an old actuator and send the status message in the old
format (and also not from the status channel). This also applies to the mixed mode of old and new
connected intelligent devices. The new Status channel will then be connected to the new intelligent
devices but only the old Status message will be sent for a state change. However if old intelligent
devices are connected but the option ‚Send old Status message‘ in the Configuration window is
deactivated for them then the status message will be sent in the extended format to the connected
new intelligent devices.
Extended Status message after Software update of intelligent devices:
If there is already a connection from an intelligent device to a new switching actuator but the
intelligent device does not yet support the new Status message (RF-Software Version <2.x) then
the actuator will send the old Status message. Now if the software of the intelligent device is
updated (either by MRF or external program e.g. Smart Home Controller) the intelligent device has
to be re-scanned (Righclick on device symbol -> Scan device new) so that the MRF detects the
new RF-Version and will enable the device for the new status connection. Afterwards either the
connection to the actuator needs to be re-calculated or the Setting window of the actuator input
needs to be opened and accepted with the OK button in order to activate the new Status message
for this actuator and to draw the new status connection to the intelligent device.
Loading the changes to the intelligent device and to the affected actuators is necessary as well as
the download of the Datapoint-list.
Please note that depending on which intelligent device is used and what 3rd Party Application is
running on it further steps outside of MRF are necessary to use the new Status message correctly.