Domorela's Blog: Virtual Lab with Domorela DMRL1: Testing with WUI: Lights operation

In our first article about Virtual Lab testing, we will show how to test lighting Domorela's WUI. To do the different tests we will use Element's controls and also Scene controls to simulate different situations, as in the case of switching on lights in a meeting room when somebody enters or to perform a general switch off.

Domorela's Blog: Virtual Lab with Domorela DMRL1: Testing with WUI: HVAC operation

In this article we will show testing operations of the HVAC elements within the WUI. As we told in the article about HVAC configuration in the Lab, we use Domorela Scenes to simulate the different situations depending of the temperature probe values: cooling the CPD, heating and cooling the office, heating and cooling the reception.

Domorela's Blog: Virtual Lab with Domorela DMRL1: Testing with REST API: Introduction

The best way to take advantage of the power of Domorela is via their IoT capabilities, this is achieved using its REST API. Thanks to Domorela's REST API is possible to communicate with a Domorela unit from other systems in order to:

1. obtain values to make statistical analysis, allowing to optimize energy savings and achieve predictive maintenance
2. send commands to the elements of the installation, extending their capabilities beyond the limits of the WUI views and controls 

Domorela's Blog: Virtual Lab with Domorela DMRL1: Testing with REST API: Lights & HVAC operation

As we said in our past article, we will test same things we did with the WUI in our previous articles by sending queries to the KNX service of the API using scripts based in the well known Open Source tool called cURL. This tool can be compiled for your own system from source code and also there are dowloadable binaries for different CPU architectures and many Operating Sytems: GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, UNIX based as AIX, HPUX, Solaris and others, and also for Windows.

Domorela's Blog: Virtual Lab with Domorela DMRL1: Testing with WUI: Technical alarms

We move back to the WUI in order to show how to deal with technical alarms in Domorela. The simplest way to be noticed by technical alarms is through the Alarms View, that will receive the state of all alarms and will update their value in the View without user intervention. But in many installations could also be convenient to edit a Panel for each group of relevant alarms related to different types of elemets: Lighting, Shutters, etc. Another possibility is to add the most relevant alarms to the User Dashboard.

Domorela's Blog: Virtual Lab with Domorela DMRL1: Testing with WUI: Security alarms

Security alarms in our Lab are a bit different to test than technical alarms. In the case of security alarms, they trigger when certain Communication Objects, like the ones referring to sensors, change its status value. As in the case of technical alarms, users can define specific Panels, include them in their Dashboards or simply use the Security View know about its current status.