KNX building supervision and visualization with Boss’nX

In Boss’nX, each building has its supervision: a dashboard with an overview, favorites, technical alarms and schemas, then a topology of zones and components whose datapoints read or control KNX, BACnet or Modbus data. The hypervision brings several supervisions together on a map, with their aggregated favorites, alarms and consumption. This page points you to the right guide for each task.

Solutions for your need

Need	Application	Guide
Read a device’s values, states and commands	Boss’nX, Building, By floor tab, zone then component	View a zone, read a component’s datapoints
Find a component by name, zone or KNX address	Boss’nX, Components	Find a component
View recorded commands and values seen on the KNX bus	Boss’nX, History panel	Component history, zone or floor history
Choose, move and resize the dashboard blocks	Boss’nX, Edit layout	Organize the dashboard
Follow active technical alarms and open their history	Boss’nX, Technical alarms block	Read the technical alarms
Show a plan or drawing of the site on the dashboard	Boss’nX, schema block	Add a schema to the dashboard
Draw a schema and place datapoints on it	Boss’nX, Schemas	Name and save a schema, place datapoints
Switch to the multi-site view and open a site from the map	Boss’nX, Hypervision chip and Supervision map	Switch to the hypervision, open a supervision from the map
Compare the consumption of several sites	Boss’nX and Chart’nX, hypervision Energy consumption block	Link the Chart’nX dashboards
Create a component and its datapoints	Boss’nX, Components	Create or edit a component

Good to know

• N/A means no usable value, not zero. A greyed-out row with no value or control can be a KNX object not yet physically installed.
• The Technical alarms counters cover the active alarms outside standby within your scope, and the list shows at most ten of them. An acknowledged alarm can remain active.
• Dashboard changes are saved with Finish editing. For the hypervision energy block, the window’s Save button only prepares the links.
• Controlling a datapoint, managing components, and viewing and editing schemas require separate rights: Send commands, Manage components, View schemas and Edit schemas.
• A component’s History panel looks for KNX entries over the last seven days, for a monitored command address.

To control and schedule, see Scenarios and commands. Depending on the datapoint source: KNX and ETS, BACnet and Modbus; for consumption, Energy and metering. Application overview: Boss’nX.

All Supervision and visualization guides

Building, components and datapoints

• Open a component in Boss’nX and read its datapoint values
• Duplicate a component or a datapoint and organize datapoints in Boss’nX
• Delete a component and its datapoints from its detail in Boss’nX
• Create or edit a component and its datapoints in Boss’nX
• View a component’s history and its KNX entries in Boss’nX
• Reorder a component’s datapoints by drag and drop in Boss’nX
• Delete one or more components from the Boss’nX list
• Search for a component by name, zone or KNX address in Boss’nX
• View and filter a zone’s components in Boss’nX
• Choose the three displayed values on a Boss’nX zone card
• Command history of a zone or floor in Boss’nX

Dashboards and hypervision

• Boss’nX technical alarms: read the dashboard summary
• Boss’nX dashboard favorites: add or remove a component
• Arrange the widgets on a Boss’nX supervision dashboard
• Boss’nX dashboard external link: add, open or delete a link button
• Boss’nX dashboard schema: zoom, pan and switch layers
• Add a schema to the Boss’nX dashboard and choose its starting layer
• Track alarms across several sites in the Boss’nX hypervision
• Multi-site energy consumption in the Boss’nX hypervision
• Set up the Boss’nX hypervision energy widget with Chart’nX
• Aggregated favorites in the Boss’nX hypervision: view and control
• Move and resize the Boss’nX hypervision widgets
• Boss’nX hypervision map: find and open a supervision
• Switch from a supervision to a Boss’nX hypervision and back
• Boss’nX overview: read the site’s weather, image and statistics
• Boss’nX overview: configure statistics and KNX measurements
• Boss’nX overview image: add, change or delete the site photo

Questions and troubleshooting

• Boss’nX dashboard favorites and alarms: frequently asked questions
• Boss’nX dashboard schemas: troubleshooting and frequently asked questions
• Boss’nX hypervision energy: troubleshooting and FAQ
• Boss’nX hypervision dashboard: troubleshooting and FAQ
• Boss’nX overview and links: troubleshooting and common questions
• Icon button and linked datapoint in Boss’nX: frequently asked questions
• Boss’nX schema canvas: troubleshooting and frequently asked questions
• Boss’nX schema conflicts: troubleshooting and frequently asked questions
• Saving Boss’nX schemas: troubleshooting and frequently asked questions
• Boss’nX navigation link: troubleshooting and FAQ
• Boss’nX Datapoints palette: troubleshooting and FAQ
• Used datapoints in a Boss’nX schema: frequently asked questions
• Boss’nX schema errors and warnings: frequently asked questions
• Boss’nX Schemas page: troubleshooting and frequently asked questions
• Boss’nX zone troubleshooting: components, datapoints and displayed values

Schemas

• Boss’nX schema background: choose a color, pattern or image
• Link an Icon button to a datapoint in a Boss’nX schema
• Boss’nX schema: set the canvas size, format and grid
• Zoom, pan and undo in the Boss’nX schema editor
• Resolve layer conflicts when saving a Boss’nX schema
• Create, name and save a schema in the Boss’nX editor
• Add, rename or delete a Boss’nX schema layer
• Boss’nX navigation link: open another layer or another schema
• Place datapoints and component cards in a Boss’nX schema
• Find where a datapoint is used in a Boss’nX schema
• Fix the errors and warnings of a Boss’nX schema
• Boss’nX Schemas page: open a plan, switch layers and zoom
• Duplicate or delete a Boss’nX schema from the Schemas page