5.6 Creating groups and allocating devices
With groups, digitalSTROM Devices can be operated within the same colour group, e.g. Shade (grey).
Some application cases require the possibility to operate digitalSTROM Devices independent of the architectural floor plan or the power circuit.
Therefore sensors and push buttons which are allocated to a group trigger presets for all digitalSTROM Devices in the group. Independent of which room the digitalSTROM Device is still allocated to thereby.
In the process, the setting of the device values for the presets of the digitalSTROM Devices does indeed take place in reference to the preset in the room (for more information refer to chapter
5.5.2), yet within a group the saved presets can also be called up by additional sensors.
Set the device values for the preset within a room in the main section Room.
Create the groups suitable for the application case you desire in the main section Group.
Use Drag & Drop to allocate the digitalSTROM Devices to the created group.
Allocate at least one sensor to the digitalSTROM group, e.g. a digitalSTROM push button block or a digitalSTROM automation terminal block.
Then the group can be operated via the allocated push button or sensor. The devices in the rooms can continue to be operated as usual via the room push button.
Application example, central push button for shading systems
If you would like to e.g. operate all blinds on the south side of the building from an additional digitalSTROM push button (e.g. a central push button at the entrance) instead of operating the blinds only through the push button in the room, use a group for the colour group Shade (grey).
To do so, the digitalSTROM push button (central push button) and the corresponding digitalSTROM relay terminal block Shade (grey) must be allocated to the same group.
Application example, wind monitor for awnings
Use one group for the colour group Shade (grey) if all awnings on a building should be retracted as soon as a specific wind speed is exceeded. By default, the higher-level activity «Wind» is called up within the entire installation whereby in addition to the awnings, the blinds are also automatically retracted.
However if you only want to protect the awnings with the wind monitor, create a group for this (e.g. awnings) and allocate awnings and wind monitors to this group. This way only the awnings in the group respond to the activity «Wind».