Technical information

10 Eaton RF-System - Help

What was new for 1.60?

Room-Manager V38a is supported, new and extended features at rooms, logical functions,

outdoor temperature, scenes, shading groups as well as extended energy features

xC MEP device is supported, a new device which will be used in combination with a Eaton

Smart Meter. The xC MEP transmits energy data to the Room-Manager, Home-Manager or

the communication interface

Automatic scrolling over the boarder of a monitor if you change the position of a device or

if you draw a connection.

Improved reaction of the scan and load window

Version verify for the Room-Manager and the xC MEP device. The version test will be

done if the settings of the Room-Manager or xC MEP device will be opened. The function verifies

if the software version of the device is equal to the version which was scanned into the MRF

project.

Limited setting possibilities for unknown devices to limit wrong changes

Possibility to hide all connections by View -> No connections

Weblinks in the "Info about MRF" window

How to start

After starting the program, the MRF main window will be displayed.

Before starting the program, however, you should connect the Gateway (RS232 interface). If you

wish to do this later, you can do it in the menu item Establish Connection (See Go Online)

Under Options you will see how to select the interface you want to connect the Gateway to.

As soon as the connection to the Gateway is established, you can start to scan all the desired

devices.

After scanning all the mains-supplied devices placed within the reception range, you will be

prompted to activate any battery-supplied devices. In case there are no such devices, activate the

Quit button.

Note: Always scan mains-supplied devices before you activate any battery-supplied devices. To

make it easier, a scanning window displays which and how many of the devices have already been

scanned.

Then your main window should more or less look like that: