Weather Alarm Function

The weather alarms are activated globally on the Extended settings tab with the parameter Global settings for roller shutter and blind, and the global settings are parameterized there.

There are now 5 different weather alarms available, together with their group objects.

The monitoring of the signals of the activated weather sensors can be carried out cyclically. The device then expects a telegram from the relevant sensor within the cycle time set. If such a telegram is not received within the monitoring time, the associated weather alarm is nevertheless triggered for safety reasons (if, for example, the sensor or the cable connection between sensor and blind channel is defective and no message would be sent in the event of a genuine alarm).

The effect of the weather alarm functions can be parameterized here for each channel. You can enable the weather alarm function individually for each drive.

With the weather alarms functions, you can protect the blinds or roller shutters against adverse weather effects such as wind, rain and frost. In the event of an alarm for one of these 5 possible weather events, the drives move into a safe position and stay there for the duration of the event (depending on the priorities of the other higher-level functions).

New parameters appear for the detailed setting of the alarm functions for three wind alarms, one rain alarm and one frost protection alarm.

First select how the drive is to react to an active weather alarm. To protect against damage in the case of excessive wind speeds, you can individually assign one of the three wind sensor signals 1, 2 or 3 to each channel. With the respective activation, the three signals of the wind alarms are logically "OR" linked or linked by means of the AND parameter.

When a weather alarm becomes active, the drive performs one of the following reactions according to your settings:

• Disabled: The weather alarm function is not active.

• Stop: The drive remains in its current position (stops).

• Up: The drive moves to the upper end position. The weather alarm function is switched on and the alarm function is active.

• Down: The drive moves to the lower end position. The weather alarm function is switched on and the alarm function is active.

• Move to position: The drive moves to the defined safety position. The weather alarm function is switched on and the alarm function is active.

Once the drive has performed the desired reaction, it remains in this position and cannot be operated while the weather alarm is active. Only when a function with a higher priority becomes active will the reaction defined there be executed.

If the drive is to move to a specific safety position, you can define this position using parameters:

This safety position is valid for all three weather alarms if you have selected the parameter value Move to position as the reaction to a weather alarm.