User Manual
Philips MultiOne
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12
Working with MultiOne
12.1
Viewing device properties
Whenever a device is selected in
Network
, the
Properties
display a number of
details for the selected device.
12.2
Communicating with a device
Initiating communication with a device is done by first selecting the device (left-click
the device in
Network
) and then clicking
Read
or
Write
on the toolbar. When the
Commands
tab or the
Scheduler
tab is active, these buttons are unavailable. When
the
Query
tab is active, all queries are executed
when clicking
Read
. When the
Diagnostics
tab is
active, all diagnostics information is read (if
available in the selected device) when clicking
Read
. When the
Device features
tab is
active, both
Read
and
Write
actions are available.
Reading and writing will always take a few seconds. Operation progress is shown on
the status bar of the main application window. On the
Device features
tab, per-
feature progress is shown on each of the feature selection tabs. When all information
has been successfully read or written, a green tick mark will appear and the text
Status: OK
is shown. If anything goes wrong, a red icon and the text
Status: failed
is
shown. When on the
Device features
tab, point your mouse to each status icon to
see a more detailed description of the communication result.
Apart from using
Read
and
Write
on the toolbar, you can directly send DALI
commands. This can be done on the
Commands
tab and the
Scheduler
tab.
In the
Preferences
window it is possible to enable extra verification when writing (see
chapter 12.15).
