Falcon - Features

New since 1.8

•  Falcon release on Windows7 32 bit

New since 1.7 (bug corrected version only)

• Fix constantly increased memory consumption on USB connection
• Fix wrong life time information on broken KNXnet/IP connections
• Prevent for de- installation of ETS3 Falcon files by external software with embedded Falcon
• Fix wrong setting of frame repetition information in IP “routing indications”
• Decline Falcon setup on windows 2008 server

New since 1.6

• Support of Localization of the Connection Manager

New since 1.5 (this version was not released as standalone package)

• Update of runtime and development environment to .NET2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
• Support for Long Frames
• Support for KNXnet/IP Routing protocol

• No (longer) support for Windows 2003 Server
• No support for Windows 2008 Server

New since 1.4

• Supports all Windows Vista 32-bit versions
• Supports Windows 2003 Server
• Updated Licensing. This allows more flexibility.
  

New since 1.3

• Support of the KNXnet/IP protocol . This new protocal is also known as "KNXnet/IP" and is an alternative for EIBlib/IP (iETS).
• Remark: KNXnet/IP requires .NET Framework 1.1
• Attention: Windows NT4 is no longer supported in this version

New since 1.23

• IConnectionManager Interface. IConnectionManager provides an easy-to-use user interface for the end user in order to establish and configure connections with the KNX bus.

Since older versions

• Supported PC gateways:
  • USB (new since version 1.23)
  • EIBlib/IP (iETS)
  • RS232: both PEI-16 and PEI-10

• KNX Access (r/w=read/write, cl/co=connectionless, connection oriented): 
  • Group addressing r/w
  • Memory access r/w
  • Physical addressing: ping, scan, write
  • Property access r/w cl/co
  • Domain address r/w
  • Property description read
  • Local device services

 

• Setup based on Microsoft's Installer technology (MSI)
  This eases the integration of Falcon in your applications: you only need to integrate Falcon's redistributable merge module. Please carefully read the information provided in the help file regarding the deployment of Falcon components.

 

• Network management functions for Domain Address Scan
  The domain address scan method from the INetworkManagement interface scans for all individual and domain addresses defined by the KNX handbook, but be careful this might take several hours. You could also use DomainAddressScanEx from the INetworkManagement3 interface. Here you have the possibility to fine-tune the scan. Moreover, this scan can be aborted by using the CancelDomainAddressScan method called from e.g. a second thread.