Installation Manual

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Lutron integration protocol
About Integration (continued)
Integration Access Points
• IntegrationAccessPointscommunicatewithexternalsystemsusingRS232,Ethernetorboth 
TheLutronintegrationprotocolwillallowthird-partyequipment,suchastouch-screens,keypads,
andsoftwareapplications,tocontrolandmonitordevicesintheLutronlightingcontrolsystem
throughanIntegrationAccessPoint Formoreinformation,checkthepagespecictothe
IntegrationAccessPointbeingused AnexampleofanIntegrationAccessPointistheQSNetwork
Interface(QSE-CI-NWK-E) ForalistingofalltheavailableIntegrationAccessPointssupported
byaparticularsystem,seetheIntegrationAccessPointssectionforthatsysteminthetableof
contents
Command Rules and Formatting
• AllcommandsareinASCIIcharacters
• Eachcommandismadeupofelds,separatedbycommas,andterminatedwithacarriagereturn
(<CR>,ASCII13)andanewline(<LF>,ASCII10)
• Lettercaseisignored
• Spacesareignored
• Leadingzerosareignored
Inter-Message Delays
InboundandoutboundmessageswiththeIntegrationProtocolwillexperiencesystemdelays
duringnormaloperation Thefollowingshowstheminimumdelaysexpected:
Command Type Minimum Inter-Message Delay
CommandandControl:Thesecommandsstartwith“#” 100ms
Query:Thesecommandsstartwith“?”
1
1500ms
NOTE
1  IntegrationsystemsshouldbedesignedtoutilizeMonitoringcommandstomaintainanup-to-dateviewofthecurrent
systemstate
Integration Best Practices
• Besuretousethe#MONITORINGcommandtoenableonlythemonitoringyourequireforyour
application Onlargesystems,unnecessarymonitoringinformationmayleadtoextratrafcthat
causesdelayormalfunctioningofthethirdpartyintegrationsystems
• Whencreatingasceneinvolvingseverallights,itisbettertocreatethesceneintheLutronsystem
andactivatethatsceneviaasingle#DEVICEcommandratherthanseveral#OUTPUTcommands
foreachlight
• CreateseparateloginsforeachthirdpartydevicewhichwillbeintegratingtotheLutronsystem