3 critical things to check.
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RAPIX Addressing & RAPIX Emergency
Download the latest version of RAPIX Emergency Software
RAPIX Emergency is Licensed Software .
Don’t have your UDID (Red Box) yet?
[USB to DALI Interface Device]
Contact your local electrical wholesaler and quote part#:
When connected correctly the 2 green LED indicator lights atop the device-face indicate that the DALI line is connected and powered.
When the USB cable is connected to the UDID and to a PC the USB indicator light is illuminated.
The DALI communication indicator blinks when DALI communications occur.
Remember, if this is the 1st time you have plugged your UDID into the PC you are using it will automatically install a device driver. This can take a few minutes depending on your PC configuration and your Windows device will notify you that this is happening and when it has completed the process.
Only after the device driver has installed will the UDID work with your PC and the RAPIX Addressing software.
TOP Indicator Lights
BOTTOM Indicator Lights
Download the updated version o RAPIX Addressing. This has had all licensing requirements removed.
Check the Dr. DALI forum post here for information on using the UDID with Lunatone Cockpit software and Tridonic Master Configurator.
As many of these other systems are using DALI gateways to MAP their protocol to DALI, and not all of them may be DALI compliant, any changes you make in a DALI (UDID) environment may or may not affect their mapping.
However as the UDID communicates in a DALI compliant message format, it allows for the easy DALI short addresses, re-short addressing, DALI grouping and DALI scene setup, and control of DALI Compliant drivers and ballasts without affecting any of the other 3rd party system gateways.
As each of these systems has a different but similar mapping topology, we cannot provide further generalised information.
If you need further support please contact Diginet Technical Support 1300 95 DALI (3254)
Don’t have your UDID (Red Box) yet?
[USB to DALI Interface Device]
Contact your local electrical wholesaler and quote part#:
Download the latest version of RAPIX Emergency Software
RAPIX Emergency is Licensed Software .
To be able to communicate to these EDID devices your Windows PC, which has the RAPIX Emergency software installed, must be in the same subnet IP range.
You can download it here. RAPIX Emergency Manual
RAPIX Emergency is licensed software. Whilst you may have downloaded the software, to use it on a site a license needs to be purchased. These licenses vary in price depending on the number of DALI emergency devices you need to report on.
Contact your RAPIX Xi Systems Integrator for pricing.
Already got a Dongle / license?
First, ensure you have downloaded and read the RAPIX Emergency Manual, Section 2.4 covers licensing and how to.
RAPIX Emergency requires that the dongle is inserted into the PC, and a license file has been imported.
A license file is designed to activate a specific USB dongle, and the dongle is identified by a built-in unique identification number which is printed on it. If either the dongle is missing or the license file is missing, then RAPIX Emergency will stop running until both the dongle and license file are found.
The first time RAPIX Emergency runs, it will prompt for a license dongle to be inserted.
(1) Insert the USB license dongle into the PC.
Note: The first time a dongle is inserted, Windows will install and configure the dongle drivers. This may take a few moments. When complete, you may be required to remove and re-insert the license dongle.
(2) The flashing red message at the bottom-left of the dialogue should prompt for a license file to be imported, specifying the ID of the dongle just inserted.
The ‘import license’ message in the bottom-left of the dialogue (the inserted dongle’s ID will be displayed here)
(3) Click Import License to show the Import a Diginet License File dialogue.
(4) Locate and select the Diginet License File (*.lic) and click Open. The text message displayed above the Import License button should now display the number of DALI Devices permitted to be run in a Test Plans.
If you don’t have a license file to accompany your Dongle please contact Diginet Support.
1300 95 DALI (3254)
Before the license can be provided the MACID of the Ethernet adapter on the PC that will be used on the testing site must be provided.
Diginet’s preference is always to provide both.
Sometimes customers order the licensing dongle and software late and it inhibits the emergency testing.
There is a fix – we can provide a MACID locked license which can be emailed. This also works in VM environments where no USB slot is available.
If needed urgently, once order has been received….
We Create 2 licenses:
This way it helps with two problems
NOTE: When using the MACID locked license, any hardware changes which impact the Ethernet Adapter or an outright change of PC to the PC operating the RAPIX Emergency software, will make the RAPIX Emergency Software inoperable and new MACID locked license will need to be requested.
IMPORTANT: This does not affect the operation of the DALI Emergency devices connected to the system.
These devices, assuming they are not faulty, will continue to operate in the case of an emergency event as normal. Only the scheduled Emergency Testing process will be interrupted until the software is re-licensed.
1300 95 DALI (3254)
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