The ETS-App Update Copy Convert provides a series of useful functions for the ETS application and device configuration (parameters and group addresses) in an ETS project.
The functions are:
Update: Changes the application program to a later or earlier version while retaining current configurations.
Convert: Transfers/adopts a configuration from an identical or compatible source device.
Channel Copy: Copies a channel configuration to other channels on a multichannel device.
Channel Exchange: Exchanges configurations between two channels on a multichannel device.
Import/Export: Saves and reads device configurations as external files.
The AUTERAS® planning software generates cross-trade equipment concepts and uses AI to find suitable product combinations that can be automatically configured and integrated to a network. This saves the customer up to 90 % of the design and configuration effort, right down to the ETS!
AUTERAS® captures customer requirements in a natural form and uses them to generate standard-compliant room automation schemes in accordance with VDI 3813, EN 17609 and ISO 16484. The AI then derives implementation proposals using devices from the KNX catalog.
The ETS App from AUTERAS® represents the interface to the online service. For example, it can be used to load the automatically created device combinations from the KNX Online Catalog, configure them fully automatically and link them using group addresses.
This app provides a series of useful functions for device configuration (parameters and Group Addresses) in an ETS project.
The functions are:
Update: Changes the application program to a later or earlier version while retaining current configurations.
Convert: Transfers/adopts a configuration from an identical or compatible source device.
Channel Copy: Copies a channel configuration to other channels on a multichannel device.
Channel Exchange: Exchanges configurations between two channels on a multichannel device.
Import/Export: Saves and reads device configurations as external files.
"Check and Improve" helps you ensure and improve the formal quality of your ETS projects. This includes the verification and semi-automatic correction of spelling, configurable naming conventions, and the assignment of Datapoint types.
Without much effort, the project gets more clearly arranged, better maintainable and will be the perfect base for further use, e.g. for a visualization.
Some details:
The Spell checker can make use of many freely available dictionaries in lots of languages e.g. from the OpenOffice and Mozilla projects, plus user dictionaries for additional words.
The naming conventions can be defined by combining building blocks like "alternative", "concatenation", "list of allowed names", "list of names from project", "pattern" etc. to a rule.
The Datapoint type assignment has access to an online database with information currently about approx. 1000 application programs (continuously growing).
The current app version works only from ETS 5.7.2! The app is available for ETS6.
Your documents become the KNX project — the ETS app with an intelligent MCP server for ETS 5 and ETS 6.
Building the project
The bill of quantities, room and device lists, distribution board plans, floor plans, the customer's email: hand your AI assistant what you already have. ETS Power Editor gives it hands — and the expertise that goes with them. It works directly in the project you have open:
Whatever is not in your documents, it asks about. You keep working in the ETS alongside it.
Parametrising
The app supports your AI just as reliably when parametrising your devices. It is your AI assistant that names the goal, not the route — the app finds that itself. Where the instruction is ambiguous, it presents the options instead of guessing.
For this the app turns the huge product databases of the devices in your ETS into structured information for your AI. You do not have to supply anything else — which also leaves you entirely free in your choice of manufacturer.
The same goes for more complex devices: a smart touch push-button with its pages, tiles and functions just as much as a switch actuator channel. On top of that it comes with general KNX knowledge — for example trades, topology and the way an ETS project is put together.
Device configuration apps (DCAs) that some manufacturers supply for setting up their devices in the ETS are not necessarily supported — their structures are not readily accessible.
Installations without a project file
If the project file is missing, your AI uses the app to recover the installation from the bus: it scans a line, creates the devices in the project and takes over their links and settings. For this, a device's application program must be in the catalogue or be supplied. For now this only works with newer devices and devices without plug-ins; devices with KNX Data Secure cannot be recovered.
KNX Secure
The device certificates for secure commissioning reach the project by scanning with a mobile device — right at installation, also as a team on site, end-to-end encrypted. Or via a sticker sheet that you fill with the stickers and photograph. The certificates never go to the AI. More: https://haar-informatik.de/ets-power-editor/en/geraetezertifikate.html
Where does my project data end up?
Anyone working with AI today is right to ask. So here is the answer, before you have to go looking for it. Here, DATA PROTECTION is top priority! In IT, collecting no data and keeping the rest to a minimum is the simplest protection against data breaches — what is not there cannot be lost either. Anything else makes no sense to us.
What does my AI see?
Of course your AI has to be given the data it is meant to work with.
You can, however, make some of the contents of the ETS project inaccessible to the AI: in the Privacy section you block the entries from the project header — the project name is often your customer's address — and individual device parameters such as stored credentials.
Blocked values never reach the AI at all; all it sees there is "hidden".
Local only by default
The connector runs exclusively on your own computer and out of the box can only be reached from this computer. You open it to other computers in the network only explicitly, after a warning, and even then only with an access key. It starts in read-only mode, you grant write access in the ETS, and every action is written to the log. It only starts once you open the app's tab in the ETS, and it reaches only the projects in which you have done so.
Your AI
Through the open MCP standard (Model Context Protocol) you work with the AI application of your choice: Claude Desktop, Cursor, Antigravity, ChatGPT (Codex) or any other that speaks MCP. You choose and pay for the artificial intelligence yourself.
It also works without an AI application: a script engine for batch commands from Excel.
Reading included
Reading and searching your project is always included. Everything else — above all, anything that changes your project or your installation — can be added monthly through Haar-Informatik and ended any month. Prices: https://haar-informatik.de/ets-power-editor/en/#preise
Guide, examples and full details: https://haar-informatik.de/ets-power-editor/en/
User interface in German, English, French and Spanish. Haar-Informatik, Zirndorf (Germany).
Your AI assistant right inside ETS 6: you say what you need – ETSpilot does it in your open project.
Building the project
Room list, quotation, distribution board plan, the customer’s e-mail or a photo of the distribution board: give ETSpilot what you already have. The assistant reads your documents, understands your project and works directly in the ETS:
Configuring parameters
Name the goal, not the clicks: “Set the travel time of all blind actuators to 60 seconds.” ETSpilot finds the matching parameters in every device and channel, checks every value against the permitted options of the application and shows you the changes before writing them – with device, parameter, new value and channel.
ETSpilot uses the product data in your ETS and is therefore independent of the manufacturer. For selected products from WAREMA and Schneider Electric/Merten it additionally knows the parameters by understandable names and the notes from the manufacturer’s instructions, and shows product cards with picture and manuals. On top comes general KNX knowledge about topology, trades, datapoint types and the structure of an ETS project.
Settings that some manufacturers manage via their own device apps (DCA) or plug-ins are not always accessible.
Checking and documenting
Addresses without a sender, objects without links, inconsistent datapoint types, devices without a room – ETSpilot finds errors before the site does. It maintains completion status, comments, open tasks and the project history at the same time.
Logic editor
Build recurring work as a graphical script from 76 blocks – or let the assistant draft the script. The preview shows every change before it happens. Excel lists and ETS exports go in as CSV, reports come out as CSV. Scripts run without AI and can be reused on any project.
Installations without a project file
If the project file is missing, ETSpilot brings the installation back from the bus: it finds the devices on a line, identifies each product by its application in the ETS catalogue and creates it in the project – with group addresses, links, parameters and flags from the device memory. The bus is only read; nothing is programmed or switched. Uncertain values are marked rather than guessed. Devices with KNX Data Secure and devices that do not accept a connection cannot be recovered.
On site
The computer stays at the distribution board while you walk through the building with your phone: scan the QR code and control the ETS from the browser – chat, device list with programming status and bus monitor. There is also an app for iOS and Android. You can dictate tasks and take over device certificates (FDSK) for KNX Secure by QR scan.
Where does my project data go?
A fair question – here is the answer before you have to look for it:
What does my AI see?
For each project you decide which data types never leave your computer – for example project name and customer data, device parameters, security keys or bus communication. Locked data is never read; the related functions are then switched off. ETSpilot never reads KNX Secure keys or project passwords.
You stay in control
In “Ask” mode ETSpilot only reads. In “Agent” mode it may make changes – every writing action is presented to you in plain language for approval first. If you wish, a project backup is created automatically before the first change, and every change carried out can be traced in the chat.
Your AI
You choose the provider: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI or Microsoft Azure AI Foundry – with Azure also with a data centre in the EU. You store your own key and pay the provider directly, without mark-up. You can switch models at any time.
Requirements
ETS 6 on Windows, internet connection, an account at https://account.etspilot.de and your own API key. ETSpilot is available as a public beta.
Instructions, examples and all details: https://www.etspilot.de/en/dokumentation.html
Data protection and security in detail: https://www.etspilot.de/en/sicherheit.html
User interface and help in German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. Splendid Minds GmbH, Fürth (Germany).
The ETS App Extended Copy is used to quickly create similar structures in a project. During the copy process, a dedicated dialog will allow devices, bus lines, even complete building parts together with their destination address assignments, configuration, Group Addresses, links, text descriptions and other information to be adjusted. Thereafter, the configuration is inserted seamlessly.
Application area:
With the GPLA app, projects from the Gira Planning Assistant can be conveniently transferred to ETS. The transfer can be carried out using a transfer code or a file from the Gira Planning Assistant.
In addition, project files for the Gira X1 can be automatically generated for import into the Gira Project Assistant (GPA).
This app allows you to connect Hager KNX radio products to a KNX installation using the TR131N radio frequency-TP gateway.
Easy2ETS tool can be used to read out an installation made of Easy Hager and Berker devices configured with TXA100 and to take over the configuration with ETS.
Note:
- RF Devices cannot be read out.
- Bus access and ETS products data are required (product database).