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).
The KNX Basic Course Documentation consists of the following chapters:
Version info
01.06
Related products
Basic course documentation eBook
Siemens offers the possibility to exchange data from SIMATIC S7 PLC to KNX systems via KNXnet/IP interfaces. This ETS App enables the user to export a Group Address data (Main addresses 0-15) from ETS in a CSV file which can be imported to Siemens KNX2S7 Editor. The additional available KNX2S7 Editor creates required data for SIMATIC S7.
KNX Virtual is a Windows application representing a KNX installation, i.e. it is not a physical installation but it behaves like one.
The advantage is that no investment in hardware (i.e. KNX power supply, KNX/USB interface or KNX/IP interface, KNX devices) needs to be made in order to test and play with KNX & ETS.
Developer website
http://www.knx.org
Version info
2.6.1
OWL ProBuilder is an ETS6 app by OWL Automata P.C. that runs inside ETS and enables projects generated by external OWL Automata tools to be imported directly into the currently open ETS project.
The user imports a .knxproj file, reviews any detected conflicts, and confirms the import. ProBuilder then applies the configuration through ETS, including topology, areas, lines, devices, group addresses, trades, building structure, device parameters, and related settings.
ProBuilder works with OWL Automata tools such as:
Chameleon+
A low-code, text-based design and engineering platform for hotel room automation that enables Siemens LOGO! to be used as a powerful and versatile KNX GRMS controller. Users design typical rooms, and Chameleon+ generates the complete hotel ETS project from them.
Application Template
A ProBuilder microapp that allows selected devices and their linked Group Addresses to be extracted from any KNX project as a reusable application template. Templates can be adapted for a target project and imported back into ETS as complete applications, allowing users to build their own template library and exchange templates with others.
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. Manufacturers can also have their products trained for ETSpilot with us: it then 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. Meanwhile a table with address, manufacturer, product and status fills in in the chat, so you can follow the progress at any time. 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. You can dictate tasks, send photos of devices and type plates straight from the phone chat and take over device certificates (FDSK) for KNX Secure by QR scan.
Values at a glance
Ask for temperatures, humidity or switching states – ETSpilot shows them as easy-to-read cards that update with every bus telegram and record the history as a chart. On the PC and on the phone, read-only.
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.
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).