With all of out control systems now online and up to date, we can move on to the addressing phase of the commissioning process.
By this stage the zencontrol controllers will have already given everything a DALI address and separated any duplicates, but in order for us to know which fitting is which we typically need to go through the process of identifying each asset. There are some cases where this may not be necessary, but in general the requirements for precise tuning and detailed fault reporting mean that we need to associate every fitting with an identifier.
Different companies tend to have different individual processes which work for them, which fall loosely into one of the two following scenarios:
Premarked drawings: The digital or physical floorplans have the addresses preassigned, and it is the job of the commissioning agent is to configure the identifiers of the fittings and devices on site to match those drawings.
Unmarked drawings: No identifiers have been preassigned to locations and it is the role of the commissioning agent to configure the identifiers of the fittings and devices on site into a sensible scheme and mark that scheme onto a set of physical and/or digital floorplans.
The end goal is the same: to have an effective, lasting record of the identifier of each fitting on the site, but we'll also assign them into logical, named groups as we go along.
For this process we'll use the zencontrol Commissioning Android application .
The most efficient way to carry out this process is to take it one control system at a time. Navigate to your site, and select Control system:
Here we see a filterable list of our control systems. Again we can see that any issues are highlighted and that the connection status is represented by a coloured bar on the left hand side.
We can start by selecting our first controller, which brings us to the control system dashboard. It's worth taking a moment to see which functions are available to us here.
We can start by selecting "Identify all" to get familiar with the area we're working with. This will blink the control gears (including the emergencies) and control devices in the area that we're working with. After that, stop that function and then we can start address commissioning.
Operating modes: When we begin, we're greeted with a warning to ensure operating modes are set. Operating modes are manufacturer-specific configurations for products, and this warning exists because changing them could cause the product to gain or lose some component ECGs or ECDs, for example if a device changed from 2 inputs / 2 outputs to 4 inputs.
For now we're going to acknowledge this warning and move on, but in future articles you'll learn to adjust operating modes and with some experience you'll start to recognize when this might be required.
Address commissioning
When we enter the address commissioning wizard, we are presented with a number of options and their associated explanations:
Most of these are fairly self-explanatory, or will become clear soon. The most important thing to call out at this stage is that 'Recommission' will start the process from scratch and remove any current commissioning. If you're returning to an area to continue from where you left off, then you will want to ensure this toggle is unset.
For now let's leave these settings as they are and select . When prompted to select the commissioning scope, choose the entire control system to be taken to the set of address commissioning tabs.
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