PG5 2.2 What's new

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PG5 2.2 New features

This page contains the principal new features from PG5 2.2 and is an abstract from the document "What's new in PG5 2.2".
The file can be download on the section below.

Documentation

What's new in PG5 2.2

Flyer 2.2.220 What's new in PG5 2.2

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PG5 2.1 User's guide

Manual 26-732 PG5 2.1 User's guide

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PG5 2.2/2.3 User's guide

Manual 26-732 PG5 2.2/2.3 User's guide

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System Catalogue : Software

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System Catalogue
Software for Windows PCs

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New Features PG5 2.2 FUPLA

In this video we explain the new features of PG5 2.2 FUPLA

Additional Documentation (Manuals, Workshops) can be found on the Controls Suite DVD

User licensing and developer registration

PG5 licensing
In order to use PG5 version 2.2, a new ‘USER.KEY’ file is needed.
The key file from V2.1, V2.0 or V1.4 cannot be used. However, you can run V2.2 as a demonstration version for 90 days without a key file. The ‘USER.KEY’ file is available from your Saia representative.
This key file registers your Company and enables the features of the PG5 which are needed.
PG5 user registration
Since PG5 V2.1 we have introduced registration for individual PG5 developers, in addition to the existing company registration. The PG5 user registration is done with the file 'REGISTRATION.KEY'
The same 'REGISTRATION.KEY' used in PG5 2.1 can be used also in PG5 2.2
When the PG5 first opens, you will be asked to register yourself as a PG5 User.
A PG5 user is entitled to free software updates, free technical support, and other benefits.
Demonstration version must complete the PG5 user registration before the PG5 can be used.
It means that PG5 V2.2 with a demo key will not run without having a valid user registration.
Licensed users, with a valid ‘USER.KEY’ file, can skip the developer registration indefinitely.

Improvements of Fupla

New internal structure
Fupla internal structure has been completely redesign in order to improve the performance when opening a file, when exporting or importing pages, when adding or removing pages and when applying find and replace operations.
The old Fupla structure was using temporary files that caused speed issues during various operations. The new structure is based on a model defined in RAM. This significantly improves performance and provides better consistency of all information contained in the Fupla file.
Undo/Redo
The Undo / Redo feature has been improved. All performed actions are now supported by the undo/redo like, for example:
On the graphical page:
- Add/remove FBoxes, connectors, connections, bus, probes, and comments.
- Move FBoxes, connectors, connections.
- Define symbol in connector.
- Copy FBox(es), connector(s), copy of multiple elements.
- Replace FBox.
- Update FBox(es).
In the ‘Page Navigator’:
- Add / delete page(s).
- Move pages.
- Group/ungroup pages.
- Import pages.
In the ‘‘Properties’ windows:
- Define FBox name, reference and comment.
- Set adjust parameters.
Page edition and graphical interface
The edition of a Fupla page has been modified for an easier and quicker programming.
- A new routing algorithm has been implemented.
- A visual assistant has been implemented in order to facilitate the drawing of the connections.
- Moving connection lines has been improve and give now a lot more flexibility.
- In order to improve the clarity of the page, the size of the empty side connectors has been reduced
- It is possible to move multiple elements at the same time.
- Copy/paste includes all connected elements.
- It is possible to replace an FBox directly on the grid, without deleting it previously.
- It is possible to insert an FBox on one or several existing connection lines.
- It is now possible to define the probe in edit mode, and not only in online mode.
FBox Selector window
The search function on the FBox Selector window to quickly find the required FBox has been improved.
Find / Find and Replace
'Find' and ‘Find and Replace’ feature has been improved with the possibility to find and replace the following elements:
- Page or block condition symbols – ‘Condition Symbol’.
- Adjust parameter values – ‘Adjust Value’.
Properties Window
The ‘Properties’ window handles now multi selection of FBoxes, of pages and blocks.
Options
The number of options available in the ‘Options’ window has been reduced in order to include only the most useful one.

Web Editor 8.0

Web Editor 8.0 has been completely rewritten with the goal of providing a simpler, yet powerful editor to facilitate engineering and maintaining small and big HMI projects in a more efficient way.

Multipage templates
One or more views can be included in a template and then easily inserted into a project.
Extensions in the download options
Possibility to download the web project to multiple targets.
Support for SVG pictures
SVG format - Scalable Vector Graphics - is now supported.
Pictures in SVG format are only used at design time in the web-editor.
When the project is compiled, the images are converted into GIF.
Rotation of picture
It is now possible to rotate pictures by defining an angle.
Run Button
The ‘Run’ button allows in one click to test the HMI project without download the files into the PCD.
Improvements:
- on the ‘Cross Reference’ window
- in the Document Outline window
- Extensions in the users management window
New web templates
Web templates for alarm management - 'Alarming', for graphical data visualization - 'Trending' and for user management have been completely reworked. They are available in Web Editor 8.

BACnet explorer ‘BACeye’

The new BACnet explorer ‘BACeye’ provides an overview in a BACnet network. ‘BACeye’ can be
connected to any BACnet network for easy analysis and switching and for testing events and alarms.

BACnet networks
With the BACnet Who-Is/I-Am services, devices in the network can be conveniently identified and an image of the device properties and objects can be read in ‘BACeye’. A detailed display of all objects allows access to the object properties.

EDE files
Generate EDE files quickly and easily. The EDE file (Engineering Data Exchange) is a format for a BACnet data point list specified by BACnet Interest Group Europe (BIG-EU).

Monitoring list
The monitoring list displays the most important properties of the selected objects. The objects can be compiled from the same or from different devices.

Alarms
All objects are displayed together with their status information (Status_Flags). Users can of course filter and search for status functions at any time.

Schedules
BACnet calendar and schedule objects can be conveniently displayed and edited with ‘BACeye’.
The weekly program (Weekly Schedule) and the Exception Schedule can be edited separately.
The combined display enables an overview of the actual effective value. The Weekly Schedule and Exception Schedule can be edited separately. The combined display enables an overview of the actual effective schedules.

Installation
The installation package of ‘BACeye’ is available on the PG5 Suite DVD, under the following path:
‘<DVD drive>:\PG5 Stand Alone\Bacnet\SBCBACeyeSetup.exe’

License
‘BACeye’ is licensed and requires a separated license as the PG5 license.
Please contact your Saia Burgess Controls sales office or representative for price and ordering information.

Wiring Check Tool

A new tool for the verification of inputs and outputs named ‘Wiring Check tool’ has been developed.

This tool is intended for technicians and electricians who must check the connections inside an electrical cabinet or the connections of the final installation upon commissioning.

This tool is easy to use and doesn’t require any PG5 knowledge.

The test results can be logged in a report.

Improvements on the Device Configurator

New devices
The following devices have been integrated into the Device Configurator:
- PCD1.M2220-C15:   E-Line CPU with 2 slots for IO or communication modules.
- PCD2.M4160:          CPU with 4 slots for IO or communication modules.
- PCD2.M4560 :         CPU with 4 slots for IO or communication modules and connector for extension
                                  modules.
Modified IP configuration for PCD3.M6860
The Ethernet configuration of the PCD3.M6860 (2 x Ethernet) has been modified according the firmware capabilities. It means that the ‘Default Gateway’ and ‘Access Control List’ properties are common to the Ethernet port ETH 1 and ETH 2 and are displayed under the category ‘Common ETH 1 and ETH 2 TCP/IP Parameters’.

Other improvements

FBox libraries
- New FTP Client FBox library
- Update of different F-box family (Exact details are visible in the " Whats new " document)
HTTP Downloader: alternative IP address
When the user program has to be downloaded via HTTP through a router - for example when using a VPN connection, it is necessary to enter an IP address that is different from the target PCD for the download. In the ‘HTTP Downloader’ dialog, available from the ‘Download via HTTP/FTP…’ command, under the ‘Online’ menu of the Project Manager, you can now enter an alternative IP address
SBC.Net Web-Connect
- The SComm version that has to be used can be specified in the Web-Connect configuration.
- In Web-Connect, when defining a station with HTTP Direct as connection type, it is now possible to enter the host name instead of the IP address.

PG5 2.2

For the PCD3.T665/T666/T668 it’s possible to define on the PG5 device configurator own FTP users, service key or the web-server password? (FAQ #102038)

No, for PCD3.T665/T666/T668 devices, it is not possible to define own FTP users, the Service key and the web-server password on the PG5 device configurator.

It’s possible to access to the PCD3.T665/T666/T668 with FTP by using the default FTP user and password.
Why the PG5 Update manager does not work, error message ‘An error occurred during the connection to the sever’ is displayed? (FAQ #102037)

In some cases, it’s possible that the PG5 Update manger is not able to connect to the server and on the PG5 Update manager the following information is displayed:

‘An error occurred during the connection to the sever’

A modification on the configuration file should fix the issue.

Error description:

In some cases, it’s possible that the PG5 Update manger is not able to connect to the server and on the PG5 Update manager the following information is displayed:
‘An error occurred during the connection to the sever’

Solution:

To solve the issue perform the following steps.

Close the PG5 update manager.

Open with a text editor the file:
c:\Users\my_name\Documents\SBC\PG5 Update Manager\DataBase\FileLocation.xml

Search at the end of the file the string:

'tuple namespace="UpdateWebServiceSoap" localname="Main" base="Absolute" uri="https://update.dev.saia-pcd.com/UpdateWebService.asmx" /'

Remove the .dev syntax from the URL so that the string looks like this:

'tuple namespace="UpdateWebServiceSoap" localname="Main" base="Absolute" uri="https://update.saia-pcd.com/UpdateWebService.asmx" /'

Save the file and restart the PG5 Update manager.

If the error persists then please check:

1.
That the correct FileLocation.xml file was modified.

File which need to be modified is stored here:
c:\Users\my_name\Documents\SBC\PG5 Update Manager\DataBase\FileLocation.xml

You don’t have to modify this file:
c:\Users\my_name\SBC\PG5 Update Manager\DataBase\FileLocation.xml

2.
If the folder c:\Users\my_name\Documents does not exist on your PC,
then it could be, that you are using a mirror software like for example OneDrive to mirror the content of the ‘Document’ folder to the cloud.

In this case search the location of the ‘Document’ folder used by the mirror software and there you should find the FileLocation.xml file

Example of possible paths:
C:\Users\my_name\OneDrive\Documents\SBC\PG5 Update Manager\DataBase\FileLocation.xml or C:\private$\home\my_name\Documents\SBC\PG5 Update Manager\DataBase\FileLocation.xml

You can search for the file FileLocation.xml and modify the file which is stored on the path: …\....\Documents\SBC\PG5 Update Manager\DataBase\FileLocation.xml
E-mail forwarding service is currently not available (FAQ #102034)

Unfortunately, the e-mail forwarding service offered by SBC is currently not available.

For this reason, it is currently not possible to send e-mails from Saia PCD via Hostpoint.ch.

We are working to make the service available again as soon as possible.

In the meantime, please use other alerting channels if necessary.

We regret any inconvenience caused.

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Update on 08.04.2020:

The e-mail forwarding service offered by SBC is available again.

Means that it’s again possible to send e-mails from Saia PCD via Hostpoint.ch.
On a PCD3.M6860 it’s possible to use BACnet on the Ethernet port ETH1 and/or on ETH2? (FAQ #102031)

Yes it’s possible to use BACnet on both ports ETH1 or ETH2 of the PCD3.M6860.
In PG5 it’s possible to activate at the same time BACnet on ETH1 and ETH2 but we strongly recommend to use/activate BACnet only on one of the two Ethernet ports to avoid a bad behavior on BACnet.

The activation and selection of the used Ethernet port for BACnet communication on the PCD3.M6860 is done in PG5 2.2 or PG5 2.3 in the device configurator.

On the properties of the PCD7.R562 BACnet card it’s possible to define which Ethernet port should be used for the BACnet communication.

On the PG5 BACnet Configurator, the Data Link must be de-activated on the Data Link configuration menu.

This feature is available for BACnet revision 14 and revision 9.
Why the PG5 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 update manger application is no more working and it’s not possible to download files from PG5 update manager server? (FAQ #102020)

Due of security reasons, we were forced to change the location of the PG5 Update manager server from:
the old PG5 Update manager server: http://update.sbc-support.ch
to a new PG5 Update manager server: https://update.saia-pcd.com

Detail information:

The url to access the PG5 update manager server is hardcoded in the PG5 update manager application running on your PC and all PG5 update manager applications with versions < 1.6.0.12 access the old server, where all version >=1.6.0.12 access the new server.

All available PG5 and Firmware updates for PG5 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 are now stored on the new server https://update.saia-pcd.com

On the old server http://update.sbc-support.ch there is ‘only’ an update of the PG5 update manager application.

Until the old server is running, then all access from PG5 update manager application (with version < 1.6.0.12) of PG5 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 will point to the old PG5 update manager server and will allow the user to download the new PG5 update manager application.

But it could be, that in the future the old PG5 update manager server is no more available and this fact could lead to the situation, that some PG5 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 versions are no more able to access to the new PG5 update manager server because the PG5 update manager application on the PC was not updated to a PG5 update manager application with version >=1.6.0.12

Error description:

In such a case the following error message would be displayed on your PG5 update manager

Can’t connect to the server.
Check your connection to the server.
Current Uri: https://update.saia-pcd.com/UpdateWevService.asmx
or
The server return an exception.
Try again later and if the error persists, contact SBC-Support.

Solution:

To be again able to access with your PG5 update manager application of your PG5 2.1, 2.2 or PG5 2.3 to the PG5 update manager server it’s necessary to perform the following steps:
1.
Open Control Panel, then Programs and Features
Select the PG5 Version (i.e PG5 Suite V2.2.230), then Press “Change Button”
Uninstall all update managers of PG5 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.

2.
Select “Modify” Option, then press “Next”

3.
Uncheck “Update Manager” CheckBox, then press “Next” and Continue

4.
Do the same for each installed PG5 Version >= PG5 2.1

5.
Install Standalone Version 1.6.0.12 (or later) of Update Manager

The Setup “Setup PG5 Update Manager.exe” is stored on the support homepage as part of PG5 2.3:
https://www.sbc-support.com/en/software/saia-pg5r-controls-suite/saia-pg5r-23-suite/parts-of-pg5-23-suite/
Shall I use PG5 2.3, PG5 2.2, 2.1, 2.0 or PG5 1.4 for my next project? (FAQ #102018)
Since February 2018 PG5 2.3 is available on the support site for download.

This FAQ features a short summary of the arguments for PG5 2.3 and shall help to decide whether to work with PG5 2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0 or with PG5 1.4.

Introduction

PG5 2.3. is based on PG5 2.2 and is a extension of PG5 2.1.

In PG5 2.0 major improvements have been made in the user interface, symbol management, symbol editing and device configuration.

Due to the important innovations and the Microsoft .Net Framework as base of PG5 2.0, the upgrade step from PG5 1.4 to PG5 2.0 is substantially more important than for example, an update of PG5 1.3 to 1.4. Therefore it is strongly recommended to read the "What's new" document in the PG5 2.0/PG5 2.1/PG5 2.2/PG5.2 section on the support site carefully before starting to work with PG5 2.0/PG5 2.1/PG5 2.2/PG5 2.3.

In general, new features will only be implemented in PG5 2.3 but no longer in PG5 2.2, PG5 2.1, PG5 2.0 and PG5 1.4.

Shall I use PG5 2.3, PG5 2.2, PG5 2.1, PG5 2.0 or PG5 1.4 for my next project?
We recommend using PG5 2.3 for new projects in order to profit from new functionalities.
Since PG5 1.4 will be further available as it is, no reason exists to convert all existing projects immediately.
PG5 2.0 PG5 2.1 and PG5 2.2 projects can be used in PG5 2.3 (but it's not possible to re-use PG5 2.3 projects in PG5 2.2/2.1./2.0)

New features of PG5 2.3.113 (first official release)
The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.3:
Detailed information could be found on the support page, section PG5 2.3 New features or on the document "What's new on PG5 2.3 (available in English, German and French) also on the support home page:

Fupla:
- Symbol Editor completely rewritten to allow a easier and faster Symbol handling
  - Easier dragging from symbols to FUPLA from anywhere on the line
  - Better performance
  - New ways to create multiple symbols at once
  - New multi-edit features
  - Group Comments
  - New Quick Search for symbols
  - New Filter options
  - Improved Symbol Error detection
  - Undo / Redo for all symbol operations
- Symbol import conflict resolution window for more control when importing symbols
  - Shows conflicts when importing symbols from Text (Excel etc.), or from files
  - Conflicts can be detected based on names or adresses
  - Symbols can be edited to resolve conflicts
- New adjust parameter window for speed up commisioning
  - Combines the best out of the old and new adjust parameter window
  - No open or close, information's are automatically displayed when you select a new FBox
  - Directly edit Online Parameters (saves a lot of mouse clicks) while keeping the original source values
  - History of changes can be displayed from the FBox
  - Possibility to hide parameters like BACnet options
- New Template Import for speed up PLC programming
  - Way faster import of templates
  - New possibilities for Indexing (Absolute / Relative)
  - One place to do Find & Replace for all tabs
Web-Editor8:
- Generation of HTML 5 compatible web pages
  - Generation of HTML5 output from existing SBC Web Editor projects
  - Projects are up to date with latest browser technology
  - Possibility to generate from Web Editor8 Java, or HTML5 or Java and HTML5 compatible web pages
Improvements:

Device Configurator:
- New devices
  The following devices have been integrated into the Device Configurator:
  - PCD7.LRL2-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 16 I/O's 2 x RS485
  - PCD7.LRL4-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 24 I/O's 2 x RS485
  - PCD7.LRL5-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 24 I/O's 2 x RS485
  - PCD7.LRS4-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 14 I/O's 2 x RS485
  - PCD7.LRS5-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 14 I/O's 2 x RS485
FBox libraries
- Standard Alarming FBoxes
  - Alarming Improvements for Standard & DDC Suite FBoxes in that way, that no manual creation of files needed anymore
  - New Alarm List Advanced FBox to provide all nessecary Informations to send out Alarms via Email, SMS etc.
  - New Alarm FBoxes with the possibility to use PCS, define Alarmtexts and Groups, Prio directly in the FBoxes
  - Processes Alarm state changes from DDC Suite and Standard Alarm FBoxes and puts them into a queue for sending them out via Email, SMS
  - Several options to filter for Group, Prio
  - Alarm Format format can be adapted to customer needs
- DDC Suite System Alarm FBox
  - Automatically detect Alarms in the referenced Systems (AHU01,AHU02 etc)
  - Possibility to define Groups and Priorities
  - Automated collective Alarm for complete systems without placing any additional FBox like OR
  - Acknowledge Alarms per System
- New Enocean EEP Profile FBoxes
  - With the new set of EEP FBoxes you can use every Enocean Device that is compliant to a EEP Profile
  - No dedicated FBoxes for devices are needed in future
  - Easy configuration for different type of devices inside of the FBoxes
DDC Suite
- News
  - Support for BACnet Rev. 14. - projects can be easily upgraded
  - Support for Alarming 2 with Groups & Priorities
  - Fast and easy engineering with 38 predesigned templates for FUPLA, Web & Visi.Plus
  - Templates for AHU incl. Humidification, Dehumidification, Air Quality etc.
  - Automatic sending of Alarms via SMS, Email without engineering effort
And other improvements and bug fixes

New features of PG5 2.2.130
The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.2.130:
Detailed information could be found on the support page, section PG5 2.2 New features or on the document "What's new on PG5 2.2 (available in English, German and French) also on the support home page:

Windows Start menu
- In the Windows Start menu, the Saia PG5 version 2.2.130 applications are accessible directly under the folder ‘PG5 Suite V2.2.130’ and no more under the folder ‘Saia Burgess Controls’.
  This change has been made in order to be compatible with the Windows 10 start menu that’s accept only one level of folder.
Device configurator:
- PCD3.M3160: Power CPU with 512kByte program memory, 128MByte intflash, USB, Ethernet, 4 IO slots not expandable
- PCD3.M3360: Power CPU with 512kByte program memory, 128MByte intflash, USB, Ethernet, 4 IO slots, expandable up to 64 IO modules.
- PCD3.M5360: Power CPU with 2MByte program memory, 128MByte intflash, USB, Ethernet, RS-232, 4 IO slots, expandable up to 64 IO modules.
Fupla:
- Status indicators of unconnected FBox binary outputs in online mode.
- Probe format of binary connections is automatically defined.
- Double click for defining a new connection from an FBox input/ouput or a connector in selection mode.
- Several corrections in the online mode for indicating the correct states and values.
- Several corrections in the handling of adjust parameters.
- Possibility to connect register float to register input of an FBox.
- Various other corrections.
Web templates and Web Editor 8:
- New templates for the E-Line RIO modules.
- Various corrections in the web templates for user management and trending and also in the Web Editor 8.
Wiring Check Tool:
- Support for the 3 new PCD3 power CPU.
- Support for the PCD1.M2220-C15 E-Line CPU.
- Support for the programmable E-Line modules – PCD1.F2611-15, PCD1.G1100-C15, PCD1.G3600-C15, PCD1.G3601-C15, PCD1.W5300-C15.
- Various corrections.
New features of PG5 2.2.100 (first official release)
The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.2:
Detailed information could be found on the support page, section PG5 2.2 New features or on the document "What's new on PG5 2.2 (available in English, German and French) also on the support home page:
- Improvements of Fupla
  - New internal structure
  - Undo/Redo
  - Page edition and graphical interface
  - Find and replace
- Web Editor 8.0
  - Multipage templates
  - Support of SVG pictures
  - Rotation of pictures
  - Run button
  - New web-templates
- BACnet Exlporer BACeye
- Wiring check tool
- Support of new devices like
  - PCD1.M2220-C15:   E-Line CPU with 2 slots for IO or communication modules.
  - PCD2.M4160:          CPU with 4 slots for IO or communication modules.
  - PCD2.M4560 :         CPU with 4 slots for IO or communication modules and connector for extension
                                    modules.
And other improvements and bug fixes

New features of PG5 2.1.310
- Project Manager:
  A warning is displayed when opening a project made with an older version of PG5.
- WebEditor 8:
  Contains all the corrections done in the patch 1 for PG5 2.1.300, especially concerning the templates where the format, min and max value are now correctly added to the project.
  The object that serves as reference when doing align operations has a different selection outline color.
  Several bug fixes to improved stability and correctness over the whole application.
- Fupla:
  Improvements in the ‘Update FBoxes’ procedure:
  for a lot of FBox, the automatic update was not possible and the message ‘Invalid structure, please review the structure and make enough place around the FBox’ was displayed.
  For such cases, the function has been improved and the update will occurs automatically.
  The function ‘Create FBox from Page’ correctly creates the FBox.
- Symbol Editor:
  In some special cases, it was not possible to drag & drop symbols to the Fupla page. This issue has been corrected.
- BACnet Configurator / Compiler:
  The function ‘Upload/Merge’ is now working correctly.
And other corrections.

New features of PG5 2.1.300
- Updated user interface, help, FBox libraries and documentation
  The Saia PG5® Suite has been updated according the new company logo and the new product names.
  New ‘SBC’ installation folder name and ‘SBC’ folder for the projects and libraries
- WebEditor 8
  New translation editor in order to easily handle multi-language web projects
  Enhancements in the ‘Library’ window
  Possibility to define default fore-/background view at project level
- Device Configurator:
  Support new IO modules
  - PCD2/3.W380
  - PCD2.G200
  - PCD7.W600
  - PCD7.R610
- Fupla
  Define groups and separators in the Page Navigator view
  Several enhancements to the ‘Page Import’ feature
- Cross-reference
  The ‘Cross-reference List’ window now shows the symbols used in the BACnet Configurator,
  the Web Editor 8 and the symbols defined in the LON Configurator
- Library Manager
  Possible to copy only the actually used libraries into the Project folder
- HTTP Downloader
  Support of ‘Service Key’ and download over portal – HTTP reverse
And some other improvements and bug fixes

New features of PG5 2.1.210 (Patch 1 of PG5 2.1.200)
Projects done with the version 2.1.200 will be fully compatible with the version 2.1.210.
The following new features and modifications have been implemented in the patch 1 for PG5 2.1.200:
- Project Manager
  - RIO and device names can now begin with a digit
  - In the TCP/IP setting table, device is not shown if Ether-S-Bus is disabled
- Device Configurator
  - Corrections in Ethernet configuration for PCD3.M6860 and in media mapping for the PCD2/3.H222
- Web Editor 8
  - New Templates DDC Suite 2.0 (Italian) and DDC Suite 2.5 (German / English)
  - Update of Icon Gallery from version 2 to 3
  - New string operations
  - New IMaster SBC 5.15.02:
  Since the latest Java update from Oracle ( 1.7.0.25-b17) a warning appeared (“missing permission”)
  when a Web-Editor page is displayed in the browser.
  With the new IMaster 5.15.0229 it is fixed.
  This new IMaster is compatible with Web Editor 5 and the new Web Editor 8.
  - Fixes issue where:
  - 'Show View' in a WE5 project could wrongfully be imported as Jump Back action
  - condition priority was incorrectly compiled
  - Variable format, min and max values are now correctly added when inserting a template
- Fupla
  - Does not crash when clicking on DDC Suite BACnet FBoxes
  - On low memory platforms, adding template does not remove existing Fupla pages
  - Correct an issue concerning counter in ladder diagram
  - For non NT-PCD's, Online values of connections between F-Boxes are set in a randomly way. FAQ101859
- Graftec
  - External symbol declarations are correctly defined in Graftec files
- Assembler
  - Time types, for example ‘T#123s’, can now be ‘public’
  - Predefined max number of flags is now 8191 for PCD2.M170
- HTTP Download
  - Allow support for web server and user key protection mechanism
- DDC Add-on
  - Allow updating BACnet configuration without erasing the clients object
  - Some adaptations regarding the scheduler object
- PG5 Project Generator
  - The PG5 project is now restored when the project update is cancelled by the user.
And some other improvements and bug fixes

New features of PG5 2.1.200
The following new features and modifications have been implemented in PG5 2.1.200:

Since PG5 2.1.200 the Device Configurator has been adapted following the protection rules for PCDs that are accessible over Internet.
To prevent unwanted access to PCD data and files, default settings and password specifications for the Web Server and the FTP Server have been modified.
The following IP-protocols are disabled by default on the deivce configurator of new PG5 projects:
- S-Bus over TCP/IP
- FTP
- HTTP (Web-Server)

PG5 projects made with precedent version of PG5 2.1 are upward compatible with PG5 V2.1.200, but not back again
Once a project has been opened with PG5 V2.1.200, it is not possible to open it again with the previous versions.
As this new version contains no major changes regarding the project structure and files structure, including WebEditor8, we recommend upgrading PG5 2.1 to version 2.1.200.
- PG5 Device Configurator
  - The following IP-protocols are disabled by default on the deivce configurator of new PG5 projects:
     - S-Bus over TCP/IP
     - FTP
     - HTTP (Web-Server)
  - The user has to turn on the appropriate IP protocols deliberately in the Device Configurator and possibly
     activate the passwords for the access protection.
  - The current FTP standard user "root" with the associated password is no longer enabled by default.
  - A new service key which facilitate and secures the access for example of the Web editor 8 to the PCD.
    The service key replaces the FTP username and FTP password and the web server password.
  - IP filter which allows filtering of incoming IP packets
  The filter allows to define which IP addresses are allowed to access the PCD or for which IP addresses
  the access to the PCD should be forbidden.
  - Easy definition of indexed symbols in Symbol view on the media mapping
  - Export of Device Configurator information towards Excel Files
    PCD3.Mxx60: Media Mapping for Interrupt Input
- WebEditor 8
  - Role-based user management and access control with with a simple user identification template
  - Download of Web-Editor 8 projects to password protected PCD
  - Find usages of functions, conditions PCD and internal variables in the whole project
  - Renaming variables in the whole project
  - Easy editing of elements without touching the mouse
  - Displaying HDLog trends as discrete (binary) curbe
  - New actions and bit comparison.
- Project Manager
  - The Backup and Restore features have been improved for better handling of project containing
  Smart RIO networks, backup/restore of Common Files, and to backup selected devices instead of the entire project
- Project Generator
  - Predefined Templates
  - Import of On-board module I/O symbols and multiple Media Mappings
- Fupla
  - Update all FBoxes in one Fupla File
  - In the ‘Page Navigator’ view, it is possible to assign a color for the each page
  - FBox ID
  In the new DDC suite 2.5 suite, the BACnet configuration is generated from the FBox in using a unique
  FBox ID as link between the FBox and the generated BACnet object
- FBox libraries
  - IP-Filter FBoxen allowing access to the IP filtering functions at runtime
  - Free generation of building ID keys in FBoxes for BACnet and alarming
  - ‘Summer time’ which indicates winter or summer time
  - Parameter settings for DALI devices
  - Corrections on several F-Boxes
New features of PG5 2.1.100.100 Patch 1
The following new features and modifications have been implemented in the patch 1 for PG5 2.1.100:
- Web Editor 8.0
  - Help is now available in German and French
  - Images used in foreground, background or embedded views are now correctly shown.
  - Changing download options no longer forces rebuild
  - Changing bar graph grow direction from horizontal to vertical or vice versa also flips width & height
  - Over 40 other stability, usability improvements and bug fixes.
- Fupla
  - The 'Replace' function replaces now all adjust texts.
  - Pressing the 'Ctrl' + Space key in a connector for editing symbol show correctly the window for choosing existing symbols.
  - Template libraries done with older version are correctly restored.
- LON IP
  - The generated configuration is now correctly handled by the PCD.
- HTTP Download
  - It is now possible to download the program into the ‘INTFLASH’.
- Ethernet RIO
  - Support for COSinus version 1.20. This will allow the use Ni 1000 L&S sensor on PCD3.T665/6.
- DDC Add-on
  - The alarm texts are also generated for the Web Editor 8
- Project Generator
  - Add standard templates for an easy import from the 'PCD Konfigurator' tools.
- And some other improvements and bug fixes
New features of PG5 2.1.100 (first official release)
The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.1:
Detailed information could be found on the support page, section PG5 2.1 New features or on the document "What's new on PG5 2.1 (available in English, German and Frech) also on the support home page :
- Update Manager
- Web Editor 8.0
- Project Generator - Excel-Import
- Improvements of Fupla
  - Cyclical transmission of S-Bus telegrams
  - HTTP file transfer library
  - Display the history of Adjust window
  - S-Monitoring library
  - IP address to text conversion FBox
- Improvements on the Device Configurator
  - Support for Ni 1000 L&S temperature sensor
  - Monitoring and logging of meter data
- Support of new devices like
  - PCD7.D457VT5F: 5.7’’ programmable panel
  - PCD7.D410VT5F: 10’’ programmable panel
  - PCD7.D412DT5F: 12’’ programmable panel
  - PCD3.M6860: controller with 2 Ethernet interfaces
  - PCD1.M0160E0: e-controller
  - PCD1.M2110R1 room controller
  - PCD1.M2160: PCD1 controller
  - BACnet MSTP module PCD2.F2150 and PCD3.F215
  - LON TP/FT-10 module PCD2.F2400 and PCD3.F240
- Flag and register extension to 16384 flags and 16384 registers (requires firmware 1.20.25 or later)
- Download backup file via HTTP
- Download in Run for PCD1.Mxxx0 and PCD3 +
- MIB File Generator for SNMP
- New User licensing and developer registration
New features of PG5 2.0.220
The following new features have been implemented in PG5 2.0.220:
- New FBoxes for the new PCD7.L79xN
- New FBoxes for EnOcean devices from Sensortec
- The EIB/IP driver now allows modifying the IP address of the gateway in runtime
- S-Web Editor has been updated to version 5.15.0221
New features of PG5 2.0.210
The following new features have been implemented in PG5 2.0.210:
- Support of the PCD1.M2160
New features of PG5 2.0 Service Pack 2 (PG5 2.0.200)
The following new features have been implemented in PG5 2.0 SP2:
- Support of smart Ethernet RIO PCD3.T665|T666
- Device Configurator: New media mapping window for all I/O slots
- New FBox classification according functionalities in Fupla
- Fupla Unicode support for Russian computers
- Web-Editor Release 5.15.02
- Full support of 64 bit Windows systems
New features of PG5 2.0 Service Pack 1 (PG5 2.0.150)
The following new features have been implemented in PG5 2.0 SP1:
- Support of up to 14335 flags for PCD3 and PCD2.M5 (requires firmware 1.14.23 or later), see FAQ 101447
- The FTP Server, S-Web Server as well as IP Enhancements (DHCP, DNS, SNTP) can now be configured directly in the Device Configurator (requires firmware 1.14.23 or later), see FAQ 101464
- Support of new hardware (PCD1.M2120, PCD3.Mxx60 and Bluetooth modules (PCD2/3.F160 and PCD2.F2/3.F2xx equipped with a F160)
- Improved German help texts in the Device Configurator
New features of PG5 2.0.110 (first official release)

The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.0:
- Improved user interface with Desktop docking and Multi Document Interface
- Hardware configuration with Device Configurator
- New Symbol handling and Excel-like Symbol Editor
- New FBox properties window for fast editing
- IL Editor with FB and CSF selector analogue to the FBox Selecor in Fupla
- Graftec supports templates
- Library Manager for organizing the libraries used in the project
- Watch window with trending functionality
The new features in detail
- Improved user interface
  o Desktop Docking functionality in order to have a framework
     behaviour between the Project Manager and the different
     editors (Fupla, Graftec, S-Edit).
  o Thanks the docking window function, the position of the
     components (Symbol Editor, FBox Selector) can be positioned
     according the user preferences.
  o Ability to open several source files at the same time (MDI,
     multi-document interface).
  o Use of standard components in the different editors in order
     to make the handling easier and effective.
- Hardware configuration
  The Device Configurator, already available in the last service pack of PG5 1.4 is now fully integrated into the PG5 2.0. This configurator gives an overview of the IO, communication and memory slot according to the specific device. Thanks the new IO handling functionality (process image) implemented in the PCD3 and PCD2.M5xx0 firmware, digital and analogue values can be directly mapped in the PCD media, without using FBoxes or FBs.
  Additionally, the Device Configurator features a label creator and calculates the current consumption of the configured modules.
- Symbol handling and symbol editor
  The symbol handling has been totally re-designed, including the symbol editor. The symbols are stored in the source code files to make file copying easier. The symbol editor has been improved with features similar to Excel, the possibility to defined more information associated with the symbols, tags, and improved sorting and filtering functions.
- Fupla Editor
  The user interface of the Fupla Editor has been improved with a new FBox selector with filter function, new FBox properties and adjust parameter windows. The Fupla Editor also includes the new symbol editor window. It is also possible to open more than one Fupla file in the same instance. It is also possible to copy and paste adjusts parameters from one FBox to another similar FBox.
- IL Editor
  The IL Editor contains a new selector window where the installed FB and CSF libraries are shown. With a simple drag and drop, the user can add the FB or CSF calls, including information about the required parameters into his code.
  The following new PCD3- and PCD2.M5 features are supported:
  o "temporary data" (TEQU) has been introduced in order to reduce the number of resources used inside FBs or macros.
  o Support for IEEE and IEEE double arithmetics
- Graftec Editor
  Graftec templates can be created in order to re-use code in an easy way and to improve the development time. The new smart cursor functionality speeds up the diagram design. The interaction between Graftec and the IL and Fupla editors has been improved, including the debugging.
- Library Manager
  The new Library Manager gives an overview of the installed FBox, FB and CSF libraries and offers the possibility to copy library into the project in order to have a backup file that includes the libraries.
- Watch Window
  Trend functionality has been added in the Watch Window. The user can visualize digital or analogue values and check online the behaviour of the controlled system.
Restrictions of PG5 2.0 and PG5 2.1

Not all hardware and communication features are supported by PG5 2.0/PG5 2.1.
For installations containing the following products, PG5 1.4.300 will be available in future.
- PCD4 and PCD6 CPUs
- Profibus FMS
- Serial-S-Bus RIO Configurator (e.g. for PCD1.T240)
Why after an download of a PG5 2.2.230 project to the PCD, where BACnet revision 14 is used, the application program on the PCD doesn’t work correctly and have a randomly unexpected/unwanted functionality? (FAQ #102013)
Due to an error on the PG5 2.2.230 BACnet compiler, PCD resource addresses changes (Reg-ister/Flags/DB’s/Text address change of existing symbols) on existing PG5 projects are not detected from the PG5 BACnet compiler and therefore the changed PCD resource addresses are not taken in account in the PCD after the download of the modified program.

Concerned products:
All PCD’s with FW 1.28.xx or later where BACnet revision 14 is used and where modified PG5 2.2.230 projects are loaded to the PCD.

The error doesn’t occur if:
- the PCD doesn’t contain a BACnet program.
- BACnet revision 9 features are used on PG5 2.2.230.
- PG5 2.3.xxx is used
- PG5 2.1 / PG5 2.0 or PG5 1.4 is used.
Error description:
Due to an error on the PG5 2.2.230 BACnet compiler, PCD resource addresses changes (Reg-ister/Flags/DB’s/Text address change of existing symbols) on existing PG5 projects are not detected from the PG5 BACnet compiler and therefore the changed PCD resource addresses are not taken in account in the PCD after the download of the modified program.

Detail information:
The PG5 BACnet compiler generate a checksum (CRC) over all PCD resources. This CRC is checked by the PCD firmware after the program download or the restart of the PCD to detect if the BACnet configuration has changed.
If the CRC has changed, then the PCD firmware forces the BACnet stack to reload the BACnet configuration in the PCD.
If the CRC has not changed then BACnet configuration is not loaded again in to the BACnet stack.
The error consists in the fact, that on PG5 2.2.230, the BACnet compiler doesn’t uses the PCD resource address for the CRC calculation and therefore a PCD resource address change of already existing PG5 resources doesn’t generate a different CRC.

The change of PCD resource addresses (Register/Flags/DB’s/Text addresses change of exist-ing symbols) could occur at any time to all, from PG5 automatically allocated PCD resources, if an existing PG5 2.2.230 project is modified or if the user changes manually allocated address of existing PG5 resources.

Error behavior:
The above described error lead to the situation that after the download of a modified PG5 ap-plication to the PCD, the BACnet Stack on the PCD uses still the old PCD resource address of PG5 resources instead of the new one.
This error could invoke a malfunction of the application program running on the PCD for PCD resources which are used/handled from the BACnet stack.

This behaviour could result to the situation that the application program on the PCD doesn’t work correctly and could create/provoke a randomly unexpected/unwanted functionality of the PCD application program.

Error correction:
The error will be fixed in PG5 2.2.234 or newer PG5 2.2 versions.
PG5 2.2.234 or newer should be available at the beginning of 2018.

Workaround for PG5 2.2.230:
The recalculation of the CRC can be forced by the user, if after each build something is changed manually in the BACnet configurator.
For example, a text string for the ‘Description’ or the ‘Location’ item on the BACnet configurator where the name could added with an underline ‘_’.
The new calculated CRC will then force the BACnet stack to load the new configuration.

Example to force the recalculation of the CRC:
Old Value for Location was ‘Murten’ New Value for Location is ‘Murten_’
PG5 2.1 and 2.2 with E-Line S-Bus communication library < 1.2.110, why the S-Bus communication on the master PCD stops either after a certain time? (FAQ #102009)

Due to an error on the E-Line S-Bus communication library < 1.2.110, the S-Bus communication stops after a certain time, if the communication mode ‘on Event’ or ‘on Sampling time n’ has been selected on the S-Bus communication FBoxes

Problem description:
If on the S-Bus FBox ‘SEND’ or ‘RCV’ the communication mode ‘on Event’ or ‘on Sampling time n’ was selected then after the update of the PG5 E-Line S-Bus communication library < 1.2.110, the S-Bus communication of the ‘SEND’ or ‘RCV’ FBox stops after a certain time and no S-Bus data’s are exchanged to the S-Bus slaves.
This problem occurs on all possible communication channels like RS485 or Ethernet.

The communication works well, if on the above mentioned FBoxes the communication mode was set to ‘On each cycle’ or ‘on data change’.

Detail information about the behavior:
Communication stops after a certain time:
The communication stops after 24 days after a power on of the PCD because the PCD internal millisecond systemcounter which is used for the event transmission has reached his maximum value and will be reseted to the value 0. Due of an error on the FBox library, this situation leads then to the communication failure.

Solution:
Either configure the communication mode in the ‘old’ FBox to ‘On each cycle’ or ‘on data change’ or use the E-Line S-Bus communication library 1.2.110 or newer.
The error is fixed in the FBox library 1.2.110, means the ‘event’ or ‘on sampling time’ communication runs well.
PG5 2.1 and PG5 2.2 with S-Bus communication library 2.7.370, why the S-Bus communication on the master PCD stops either after a certain time or after the download of the program? (FAQ #102008)

Due to an error on the communication library 2.7.370, the S-Bus communication stops after a certain time or after the download of the program, if the communication mode ‘on Event’ or ‘on Sampling time n’ has been selected on the S-Bus communication FBoxes

Problem description:
If on the S-Bus FBox ‘SASI S-Bus Master’, ‘SASI S-Bus extended’, ‘SEND’ or ‘RCV’ the communication mode ‘on Event’ or ‘on Sampling time n’ was selected then after the update of the PG5 communication library to the version 2.7.370, the S-Bus communication of the ‘SEND’ or ‘RCV’ FBox stops after a certain time or after the download of the new compiled program and no S-Bus data’s are exchanged anymore to the S-Bus slaves.
This problem occurs on all possible communication channels like RS485 or Ethernet.
The communication works well, if on the above mentioned FBoxes the communication mode was set to ‘On each cycle’ or ‘on data change’.

Detail information about the behavior:
Communication stops after a certain time:
The communication stops after 24 days after a power on of the PCD because the PCD internal millisecond systemcounter which is used for the event transmission has reached his maximum value and will be reseted to the value 0. Due of an error on the FBox library, this situation leads then to the communication failure.

Communication stops after the download of the new compiled program:
The library 2.7.370 internally uses a register which was not used before.
Depending of the value stored in the past in this register it’s possible that the S-Bus communication runs well or stops after the download of the program.

Solution:
Either configure the communication mode in the ‘old’ FBox to ‘On each cycle’ or ‘on data change’ or use the S-Bus communication FBox library 2.7.380 or newer.
The error is fixed in the FBox library 2.7.380, means the ‘event’ or ‘on sampling time’ communication runs well.
No Refresh from State of I/O's from E-Line Rio- Moduls after Fbox Update (FAQ #102001)

Fbox Update of the E-Line Library causes Problem with I/O refresh in Fupla

Symptoms

PG5 2.2.140 with E-Line Fbox Library V2.1.100.
After the automatical Fbox Update in the Fupla Editor, the Projekt will be Rebuilded and downloaded into the PCD without Errors.
Checking the Funktions Online, there is no Refresh for the States of Inputs and Funktion for the Outputs visible.
An Kommunikation Error is not indicated.

Reason

An Error in the PG5 2.2.140 does not perform a clean update

Solution

Is described in FAQ 101994

In PG5 2.2.220 the Error is fixed
Why on the web-editor 8 of PG5 2.2.140, the properties window is empty or tabs of the properties window are not visible? (FAQ #101997)

Together with the official PG5 2.2.140, Web Editor 8.3.0.740 was released.
On this version there is a bug that lead to the situation that the properties window is empty or tabs of the properties window are not visible if the user does click on the layers in the document outline view.
If this happens, the Web Editor 8 must be closed and re-opened again.
There is a bug-fix version, Web Editor 8.3.0.749

The correction is also included in the web-editors which are supplied together with PG5 2.2.200 or later.

A correct properties view looks like this:

After the error the action tab is no more visible in the properties:

Steps to proceed in order to use the new Web Editor 8.3.0.749:
1. Download the Web Editor 8.3.0.749 from the support homepage as a self-extract file on your
    computer.
2. Rename the actual Web Editor 8 folder under "C:\Program Files (x86)\SBC\
    PG5 V2.2.140". For example into "WebEditor8_old". You will need admin rights.
3. Start the self-extract file and choose as target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\SBC\
    PG5 V2.2.140"
5. Web Editor 8.3.0.749 will now be launched as standard Web Editor with PG5 2.2.140.
Why does the fupla in PG5 2.2.140 deletes connexions? (FAQ #101996)

Line length equal to 0 will be deleted from fupla

A function added in fupla of the version 2.2.140 create an error when the line lenght is equal to 0.

This could happened to all project made with version 2.2.xx.

The problem does occurs when connectors are directly connected to the Fbox as following

During programming, everything would work fine.

--> The problem does occurs when a fupla is reopen. During opening, a function does check the line lengh and does delete if lengh = 0.

In addition to this, no error would be displayed for the unconnected labels.

In that case, only the missing Fbox input would create an error.

Here is the view after compiling and reopening the fupla

In occurrence, as this wrong behavior could create big hidden problems, it is highly recommended to install the hotfix 1.

This problem has been corrected in the hotfix 1 for 2.2.140. and will be included from version of PG5 2.2.200

Please download the patch from here

Unzip the folder and replace these files in the installation folder of your PG5 2.2.140 version

default path is:

c:\Program Files (x86)\SBC\PG5 V2.2.140

--> Once the Fupla program is open click on "Save all".

If you have had such open connection in the program, "incomplete network errors" will appear during the compilation. Simply reconnect the disconnected connections showed by the red arrow.
Why it’s not possible to distribute the corrections (hotfix files) for PG5 over the PG5 update manager? (FAQ #101983)

The PG5 hotfix files allow us to supply you corrections/enhancements of PG5 components in an easy and fast way.

Actually the PG5 update manager is able to handle only installation packages files and therefore it’s not possible to use the PG5 update manager for the distribution of single files.

For this reason the hotfix files are actually only available on the support homepage.
Why in PG5 2.2.130 it's not possible to map in the BACnet Configurator analogue values to PCD medias? (FAQ #101981)

Due of a error in PG5 2.2.130 it's not possible to map in the BACnet configurator analogue values to PCD medias.

This error is fixed since the Hotfix 1 of PG5 2.2.130 or since PG5 2.2.140
On PG5 2.2.130, why it’s no more possible to access from scada or web page to the HEVAC F-Box ‘Override digital’ and ‘Override numeric’ and to manipulate/force the F-Box internal adjust parameters from scada or web page? (FAQ #101980)
Due of an error in PG5 2.2.130 it’s no more possible to manipulate/force the F-Box internal adjust parameters from scada or web page of the 2 above mentioned F-Boxes and therefore it’s not possible to use the override functionally of the F-Boxes.

The problem does occur only, if one of the two above mentioned F-Boxes are new placed in a Fupla page in PG5 2.2.130 and if the F-Box does contains ‘user defined internal static variables’ and the definition of the ‘user defined internal static variables’ was done over the ‘right mouse click menu’ ‘Adjust Parameters’

There is no problem if:
- The project was taken over from PG5 2.1 and on this project in the F-Boxes there was a user defined or a system defined variable.
- The F-Box is placed new in Fupla of PG5 2.2.130 and the internal symbols are ‘system defined’
Correction is done in the Hotfix 1 for PG5 2.2.130 or since PG5 2.2.140
The special FBox library PCD7_D7 is now available for PG5 2.0. (FAQ #101356)

The FBox library regarding the exchanges of datas with the Panels ESA (PCD7.D7xx) and PCD controllers is available for PG5 2.0 and can be used also in PG5 2.1, PG5 2.2 and PG5 2.3.

The FBox library is attached to this FAQ

On PG5 2.1, PG5 2.2 and PG5 2.3 a warning will be shown on the library manager 'BAD VERSION NUMBER' but it's possible to use the FBoxes in Fupla without problems

Which PG5 version is compatible with what operating system? (FAQ #100405)

PG5 2.2 / Fupla

Why the PG5 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 update manger application is no more working and it’s not possible to download files from PG5 update manager server? (FAQ #102020)

Due of security reasons, we were forced to change the location of the PG5 Update manager server from:
the old PG5 Update manager server: http://update.sbc-support.ch
to a new PG5 Update manager server: https://update.saia-pcd.com

Detail information:

The url to access the PG5 update manager server is hardcoded in the PG5 update manager application running on your PC and all PG5 update manager applications with versions < 1.6.0.12 access the old server, where all version >=1.6.0.12 access the new server.

All available PG5 and Firmware updates for PG5 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 are now stored on the new server https://update.saia-pcd.com

On the old server http://update.sbc-support.ch there is ‘only’ an update of the PG5 update manager application.

Until the old server is running, then all access from PG5 update manager application (with version < 1.6.0.12) of PG5 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 will point to the old PG5 update manager server and will allow the user to download the new PG5 update manager application.

But it could be, that in the future the old PG5 update manager server is no more available and this fact could lead to the situation, that some PG5 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3 versions are no more able to access to the new PG5 update manager server because the PG5 update manager application on the PC was not updated to a PG5 update manager application with version >=1.6.0.12

Error description:

In such a case the following error message would be displayed on your PG5 update manager

Can’t connect to the server.
Check your connection to the server.
Current Uri: https://update.saia-pcd.com/UpdateWevService.asmx
or
The server return an exception.
Try again later and if the error persists, contact SBC-Support.

Solution:

To be again able to access with your PG5 update manager application of your PG5 2.1, 2.2 or PG5 2.3 to the PG5 update manager server it’s necessary to perform the following steps:
1.
Open Control Panel, then Programs and Features
Select the PG5 Version (i.e PG5 Suite V2.2.230), then Press “Change Button”
Uninstall all update managers of PG5 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3.

2.
Select “Modify” Option, then press “Next”

3.
Uncheck “Update Manager” CheckBox, then press “Next” and Continue

4.
Do the same for each installed PG5 Version >= PG5 2.1

5.
Install Standalone Version 1.6.0.12 (or later) of Update Manager

The Setup “Setup PG5 Update Manager.exe” is stored on the support homepage as part of PG5 2.3:
https://www.sbc-support.com/en/software/saia-pg5r-controls-suite/saia-pg5r-23-suite/parts-of-pg5-23-suite/
Shall I use PG5 2.3, PG5 2.2, 2.1, 2.0 or PG5 1.4 for my next project? (FAQ #102018)
Since February 2018 PG5 2.3 is available on the support site for download.

This FAQ features a short summary of the arguments for PG5 2.3 and shall help to decide whether to work with PG5 2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0 or with PG5 1.4.

Introduction

PG5 2.3. is based on PG5 2.2 and is a extension of PG5 2.1.

In PG5 2.0 major improvements have been made in the user interface, symbol management, symbol editing and device configuration.

Due to the important innovations and the Microsoft .Net Framework as base of PG5 2.0, the upgrade step from PG5 1.4 to PG5 2.0 is substantially more important than for example, an update of PG5 1.3 to 1.4. Therefore it is strongly recommended to read the "What's new" document in the PG5 2.0/PG5 2.1/PG5 2.2/PG5.2 section on the support site carefully before starting to work with PG5 2.0/PG5 2.1/PG5 2.2/PG5 2.3.

In general, new features will only be implemented in PG5 2.3 but no longer in PG5 2.2, PG5 2.1, PG5 2.0 and PG5 1.4.

Shall I use PG5 2.3, PG5 2.2, PG5 2.1, PG5 2.0 or PG5 1.4 for my next project?
We recommend using PG5 2.3 for new projects in order to profit from new functionalities.
Since PG5 1.4 will be further available as it is, no reason exists to convert all existing projects immediately.
PG5 2.0 PG5 2.1 and PG5 2.2 projects can be used in PG5 2.3 (but it's not possible to re-use PG5 2.3 projects in PG5 2.2/2.1./2.0)

New features of PG5 2.3.113 (first official release)
The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.3:
Detailed information could be found on the support page, section PG5 2.3 New features or on the document "What's new on PG5 2.3 (available in English, German and French) also on the support home page:

Fupla:
- Symbol Editor completely rewritten to allow a easier and faster Symbol handling
  - Easier dragging from symbols to FUPLA from anywhere on the line
  - Better performance
  - New ways to create multiple symbols at once
  - New multi-edit features
  - Group Comments
  - New Quick Search for symbols
  - New Filter options
  - Improved Symbol Error detection
  - Undo / Redo for all symbol operations
- Symbol import conflict resolution window for more control when importing symbols
  - Shows conflicts when importing symbols from Text (Excel etc.), or from files
  - Conflicts can be detected based on names or adresses
  - Symbols can be edited to resolve conflicts
- New adjust parameter window for speed up commisioning
  - Combines the best out of the old and new adjust parameter window
  - No open or close, information's are automatically displayed when you select a new FBox
  - Directly edit Online Parameters (saves a lot of mouse clicks) while keeping the original source values
  - History of changes can be displayed from the FBox
  - Possibility to hide parameters like BACnet options
- New Template Import for speed up PLC programming
  - Way faster import of templates
  - New possibilities for Indexing (Absolute / Relative)
  - One place to do Find & Replace for all tabs
Web-Editor8:
- Generation of HTML 5 compatible web pages
  - Generation of HTML5 output from existing SBC Web Editor projects
  - Projects are up to date with latest browser technology
  - Possibility to generate from Web Editor8 Java, or HTML5 or Java and HTML5 compatible web pages
Improvements:

Device Configurator:
- New devices
  The following devices have been integrated into the Device Configurator:
  - PCD7.LRL2-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 16 I/O's 2 x RS485
  - PCD7.LRL4-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 24 I/O's 2 x RS485
  - PCD7.LRL5-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 24 I/O's 2 x RS485
  - PCD7.LRS4-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 14 I/O's 2 x RS485
  - PCD7.LRS5-P5: Programmable Room Controller with 14 I/O's 2 x RS485
FBox libraries
- Standard Alarming FBoxes
  - Alarming Improvements for Standard & DDC Suite FBoxes in that way, that no manual creation of files needed anymore
  - New Alarm List Advanced FBox to provide all nessecary Informations to send out Alarms via Email, SMS etc.
  - New Alarm FBoxes with the possibility to use PCS, define Alarmtexts and Groups, Prio directly in the FBoxes
  - Processes Alarm state changes from DDC Suite and Standard Alarm FBoxes and puts them into a queue for sending them out via Email, SMS
  - Several options to filter for Group, Prio
  - Alarm Format format can be adapted to customer needs
- DDC Suite System Alarm FBox
  - Automatically detect Alarms in the referenced Systems (AHU01,AHU02 etc)
  - Possibility to define Groups and Priorities
  - Automated collective Alarm for complete systems without placing any additional FBox like OR
  - Acknowledge Alarms per System
- New Enocean EEP Profile FBoxes
  - With the new set of EEP FBoxes you can use every Enocean Device that is compliant to a EEP Profile
  - No dedicated FBoxes for devices are needed in future
  - Easy configuration for different type of devices inside of the FBoxes
DDC Suite
- News
  - Support for BACnet Rev. 14. - projects can be easily upgraded
  - Support for Alarming 2 with Groups & Priorities
  - Fast and easy engineering with 38 predesigned templates for FUPLA, Web & Visi.Plus
  - Templates for AHU incl. Humidification, Dehumidification, Air Quality etc.
  - Automatic sending of Alarms via SMS, Email without engineering effort
And other improvements and bug fixes

New features of PG5 2.2.130
The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.2.130:
Detailed information could be found on the support page, section PG5 2.2 New features or on the document "What's new on PG5 2.2 (available in English, German and French) also on the support home page:

Windows Start menu
- In the Windows Start menu, the Saia PG5 version 2.2.130 applications are accessible directly under the folder ‘PG5 Suite V2.2.130’ and no more under the folder ‘Saia Burgess Controls’.
  This change has been made in order to be compatible with the Windows 10 start menu that’s accept only one level of folder.
Device configurator:
- PCD3.M3160: Power CPU with 512kByte program memory, 128MByte intflash, USB, Ethernet, 4 IO slots not expandable
- PCD3.M3360: Power CPU with 512kByte program memory, 128MByte intflash, USB, Ethernet, 4 IO slots, expandable up to 64 IO modules.
- PCD3.M5360: Power CPU with 2MByte program memory, 128MByte intflash, USB, Ethernet, RS-232, 4 IO slots, expandable up to 64 IO modules.
Fupla:
- Status indicators of unconnected FBox binary outputs in online mode.
- Probe format of binary connections is automatically defined.
- Double click for defining a new connection from an FBox input/ouput or a connector in selection mode.
- Several corrections in the online mode for indicating the correct states and values.
- Several corrections in the handling of adjust parameters.
- Possibility to connect register float to register input of an FBox.
- Various other corrections.
Web templates and Web Editor 8:
- New templates for the E-Line RIO modules.
- Various corrections in the web templates for user management and trending and also in the Web Editor 8.
Wiring Check Tool:
- Support for the 3 new PCD3 power CPU.
- Support for the PCD1.M2220-C15 E-Line CPU.
- Support for the programmable E-Line modules – PCD1.F2611-15, PCD1.G1100-C15, PCD1.G3600-C15, PCD1.G3601-C15, PCD1.W5300-C15.
- Various corrections.
New features of PG5 2.2.100 (first official release)
The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.2:
Detailed information could be found on the support page, section PG5 2.2 New features or on the document "What's new on PG5 2.2 (available in English, German and French) also on the support home page:
- Improvements of Fupla
  - New internal structure
  - Undo/Redo
  - Page edition and graphical interface
  - Find and replace
- Web Editor 8.0
  - Multipage templates
  - Support of SVG pictures
  - Rotation of pictures
  - Run button
  - New web-templates
- BACnet Exlporer BACeye
- Wiring check tool
- Support of new devices like
  - PCD1.M2220-C15:   E-Line CPU with 2 slots for IO or communication modules.
  - PCD2.M4160:          CPU with 4 slots for IO or communication modules.
  - PCD2.M4560 :         CPU with 4 slots for IO or communication modules and connector for extension
                                    modules.
And other improvements and bug fixes

New features of PG5 2.1.310
- Project Manager:
  A warning is displayed when opening a project made with an older version of PG5.
- WebEditor 8:
  Contains all the corrections done in the patch 1 for PG5 2.1.300, especially concerning the templates where the format, min and max value are now correctly added to the project.
  The object that serves as reference when doing align operations has a different selection outline color.
  Several bug fixes to improved stability and correctness over the whole application.
- Fupla:
  Improvements in the ‘Update FBoxes’ procedure:
  for a lot of FBox, the automatic update was not possible and the message ‘Invalid structure, please review the structure and make enough place around the FBox’ was displayed.
  For such cases, the function has been improved and the update will occurs automatically.
  The function ‘Create FBox from Page’ correctly creates the FBox.
- Symbol Editor:
  In some special cases, it was not possible to drag & drop symbols to the Fupla page. This issue has been corrected.
- BACnet Configurator / Compiler:
  The function ‘Upload/Merge’ is now working correctly.
And other corrections.

New features of PG5 2.1.300
- Updated user interface, help, FBox libraries and documentation
  The Saia PG5® Suite has been updated according the new company logo and the new product names.
  New ‘SBC’ installation folder name and ‘SBC’ folder for the projects and libraries
- WebEditor 8
  New translation editor in order to easily handle multi-language web projects
  Enhancements in the ‘Library’ window
  Possibility to define default fore-/background view at project level
- Device Configurator:
  Support new IO modules
  - PCD2/3.W380
  - PCD2.G200
  - PCD7.W600
  - PCD7.R610
- Fupla
  Define groups and separators in the Page Navigator view
  Several enhancements to the ‘Page Import’ feature
- Cross-reference
  The ‘Cross-reference List’ window now shows the symbols used in the BACnet Configurator,
  the Web Editor 8 and the symbols defined in the LON Configurator
- Library Manager
  Possible to copy only the actually used libraries into the Project folder
- HTTP Downloader
  Support of ‘Service Key’ and download over portal – HTTP reverse
And some other improvements and bug fixes

New features of PG5 2.1.210 (Patch 1 of PG5 2.1.200)
Projects done with the version 2.1.200 will be fully compatible with the version 2.1.210.
The following new features and modifications have been implemented in the patch 1 for PG5 2.1.200:
- Project Manager
  - RIO and device names can now begin with a digit
  - In the TCP/IP setting table, device is not shown if Ether-S-Bus is disabled
- Device Configurator
  - Corrections in Ethernet configuration for PCD3.M6860 and in media mapping for the PCD2/3.H222
- Web Editor 8
  - New Templates DDC Suite 2.0 (Italian) and DDC Suite 2.5 (German / English)
  - Update of Icon Gallery from version 2 to 3
  - New string operations
  - New IMaster SBC 5.15.02:
  Since the latest Java update from Oracle ( 1.7.0.25-b17) a warning appeared (“missing permission”)
  when a Web-Editor page is displayed in the browser.
  With the new IMaster 5.15.0229 it is fixed.
  This new IMaster is compatible with Web Editor 5 and the new Web Editor 8.
  - Fixes issue where:
  - 'Show View' in a WE5 project could wrongfully be imported as Jump Back action
  - condition priority was incorrectly compiled
  - Variable format, min and max values are now correctly added when inserting a template
- Fupla
  - Does not crash when clicking on DDC Suite BACnet FBoxes
  - On low memory platforms, adding template does not remove existing Fupla pages
  - Correct an issue concerning counter in ladder diagram
  - For non NT-PCD's, Online values of connections between F-Boxes are set in a randomly way. FAQ101859
- Graftec
  - External symbol declarations are correctly defined in Graftec files
- Assembler
  - Time types, for example ‘T#123s’, can now be ‘public’
  - Predefined max number of flags is now 8191 for PCD2.M170
- HTTP Download
  - Allow support for web server and user key protection mechanism
- DDC Add-on
  - Allow updating BACnet configuration without erasing the clients object
  - Some adaptations regarding the scheduler object
- PG5 Project Generator
  - The PG5 project is now restored when the project update is cancelled by the user.
And some other improvements and bug fixes

New features of PG5 2.1.200
The following new features and modifications have been implemented in PG5 2.1.200:

Since PG5 2.1.200 the Device Configurator has been adapted following the protection rules for PCDs that are accessible over Internet.
To prevent unwanted access to PCD data and files, default settings and password specifications for the Web Server and the FTP Server have been modified.
The following IP-protocols are disabled by default on the deivce configurator of new PG5 projects:
- S-Bus over TCP/IP
- FTP
- HTTP (Web-Server)

PG5 projects made with precedent version of PG5 2.1 are upward compatible with PG5 V2.1.200, but not back again
Once a project has been opened with PG5 V2.1.200, it is not possible to open it again with the previous versions.
As this new version contains no major changes regarding the project structure and files structure, including WebEditor8, we recommend upgrading PG5 2.1 to version 2.1.200.
- PG5 Device Configurator
  - The following IP-protocols are disabled by default on the deivce configurator of new PG5 projects:
     - S-Bus over TCP/IP
     - FTP
     - HTTP (Web-Server)
  - The user has to turn on the appropriate IP protocols deliberately in the Device Configurator and possibly
     activate the passwords for the access protection.
  - The current FTP standard user "root" with the associated password is no longer enabled by default.
  - A new service key which facilitate and secures the access for example of the Web editor 8 to the PCD.
    The service key replaces the FTP username and FTP password and the web server password.
  - IP filter which allows filtering of incoming IP packets
  The filter allows to define which IP addresses are allowed to access the PCD or for which IP addresses
  the access to the PCD should be forbidden.
  - Easy definition of indexed symbols in Symbol view on the media mapping
  - Export of Device Configurator information towards Excel Files
    PCD3.Mxx60: Media Mapping for Interrupt Input
- WebEditor 8
  - Role-based user management and access control with with a simple user identification template
  - Download of Web-Editor 8 projects to password protected PCD
  - Find usages of functions, conditions PCD and internal variables in the whole project
  - Renaming variables in the whole project
  - Easy editing of elements without touching the mouse
  - Displaying HDLog trends as discrete (binary) curbe
  - New actions and bit comparison.
- Project Manager
  - The Backup and Restore features have been improved for better handling of project containing
  Smart RIO networks, backup/restore of Common Files, and to backup selected devices instead of the entire project
- Project Generator
  - Predefined Templates
  - Import of On-board module I/O symbols and multiple Media Mappings
- Fupla
  - Update all FBoxes in one Fupla File
  - In the ‘Page Navigator’ view, it is possible to assign a color for the each page
  - FBox ID
  In the new DDC suite 2.5 suite, the BACnet configuration is generated from the FBox in using a unique
  FBox ID as link between the FBox and the generated BACnet object
- FBox libraries
  - IP-Filter FBoxen allowing access to the IP filtering functions at runtime
  - Free generation of building ID keys in FBoxes for BACnet and alarming
  - ‘Summer time’ which indicates winter or summer time
  - Parameter settings for DALI devices
  - Corrections on several F-Boxes
New features of PG5 2.1.100.100 Patch 1
The following new features and modifications have been implemented in the patch 1 for PG5 2.1.100:
- Web Editor 8.0
  - Help is now available in German and French
  - Images used in foreground, background or embedded views are now correctly shown.
  - Changing download options no longer forces rebuild
  - Changing bar graph grow direction from horizontal to vertical or vice versa also flips width & height
  - Over 40 other stability, usability improvements and bug fixes.
- Fupla
  - The 'Replace' function replaces now all adjust texts.
  - Pressing the 'Ctrl' + Space key in a connector for editing symbol show correctly the window for choosing existing symbols.
  - Template libraries done with older version are correctly restored.
- LON IP
  - The generated configuration is now correctly handled by the PCD.
- HTTP Download
  - It is now possible to download the program into the ‘INTFLASH’.
- Ethernet RIO
  - Support for COSinus version 1.20. This will allow the use Ni 1000 L&S sensor on PCD3.T665/6.
- DDC Add-on
  - The alarm texts are also generated for the Web Editor 8
- Project Generator
  - Add standard templates for an easy import from the 'PCD Konfigurator' tools.
- And some other improvements and bug fixes
New features of PG5 2.1.100 (first official release)
The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.1:
Detailed information could be found on the support page, section PG5 2.1 New features or on the document "What's new on PG5 2.1 (available in English, German and Frech) also on the support home page :
- Update Manager
- Web Editor 8.0
- Project Generator - Excel-Import
- Improvements of Fupla
  - Cyclical transmission of S-Bus telegrams
  - HTTP file transfer library
  - Display the history of Adjust window
  - S-Monitoring library
  - IP address to text conversion FBox
- Improvements on the Device Configurator
  - Support for Ni 1000 L&S temperature sensor
  - Monitoring and logging of meter data
- Support of new devices like
  - PCD7.D457VT5F: 5.7’’ programmable panel
  - PCD7.D410VT5F: 10’’ programmable panel
  - PCD7.D412DT5F: 12’’ programmable panel
  - PCD3.M6860: controller with 2 Ethernet interfaces
  - PCD1.M0160E0: e-controller
  - PCD1.M2110R1 room controller
  - PCD1.M2160: PCD1 controller
  - BACnet MSTP module PCD2.F2150 and PCD3.F215
  - LON TP/FT-10 module PCD2.F2400 and PCD3.F240
- Flag and register extension to 16384 flags and 16384 registers (requires firmware 1.20.25 or later)
- Download backup file via HTTP
- Download in Run for PCD1.Mxxx0 and PCD3 +
- MIB File Generator for SNMP
- New User licensing and developer registration
New features of PG5 2.0.220
The following new features have been implemented in PG5 2.0.220:
- New FBoxes for the new PCD7.L79xN
- New FBoxes for EnOcean devices from Sensortec
- The EIB/IP driver now allows modifying the IP address of the gateway in runtime
- S-Web Editor has been updated to version 5.15.0221
New features of PG5 2.0.210
The following new features have been implemented in PG5 2.0.210:
- Support of the PCD1.M2160
New features of PG5 2.0 Service Pack 2 (PG5 2.0.200)
The following new features have been implemented in PG5 2.0 SP2:
- Support of smart Ethernet RIO PCD3.T665|T666
- Device Configurator: New media mapping window for all I/O slots
- New FBox classification according functionalities in Fupla
- Fupla Unicode support for Russian computers
- Web-Editor Release 5.15.02
- Full support of 64 bit Windows systems
New features of PG5 2.0 Service Pack 1 (PG5 2.0.150)
The following new features have been implemented in PG5 2.0 SP1:
- Support of up to 14335 flags for PCD3 and PCD2.M5 (requires firmware 1.14.23 or later), see FAQ 101447
- The FTP Server, S-Web Server as well as IP Enhancements (DHCP, DNS, SNTP) can now be configured directly in the Device Configurator (requires firmware 1.14.23 or later), see FAQ 101464
- Support of new hardware (PCD1.M2120, PCD3.Mxx60 and Bluetooth modules (PCD2/3.F160 and PCD2.F2/3.F2xx equipped with a F160)
- Improved German help texts in the Device Configurator
New features of PG5 2.0.110 (first official release)

The following short list gives an overview of the new features and improvements which have been realized in PG5 2.0:
- Improved user interface with Desktop docking and Multi Document Interface
- Hardware configuration with Device Configurator
- New Symbol handling and Excel-like Symbol Editor
- New FBox properties window for fast editing
- IL Editor with FB and CSF selector analogue to the FBox Selecor in Fupla
- Graftec supports templates
- Library Manager for organizing the libraries used in the project
- Watch window with trending functionality
The new features in detail
- Improved user interface
  o Desktop Docking functionality in order to have a framework
     behaviour between the Project Manager and the different
     editors (Fupla, Graftec, S-Edit).
  o Thanks the docking window function, the position of the
     components (Symbol Editor, FBox Selector) can be positioned
     according the user preferences.
  o Ability to open several source files at the same time (MDI,
     multi-document interface).
  o Use of standard components in the different editors in order
     to make the handling easier and effective.
- Hardware configuration
  The Device Configurator, already available in the last service pack of PG5 1.4 is now fully integrated into the PG5 2.0. This configurator gives an overview of the IO, communication and memory slot according to the specific device. Thanks the new IO handling functionality (process image) implemented in the PCD3 and PCD2.M5xx0 firmware, digital and analogue values can be directly mapped in the PCD media, without using FBoxes or FBs.
  Additionally, the Device Configurator features a label creator and calculates the current consumption of the configured modules.
- Symbol handling and symbol editor
  The symbol handling has been totally re-designed, including the symbol editor. The symbols are stored in the source code files to make file copying easier. The symbol editor has been improved with features similar to Excel, the possibility to defined more information associated with the symbols, tags, and improved sorting and filtering functions.
- Fupla Editor
  The user interface of the Fupla Editor has been improved with a new FBox selector with filter function, new FBox properties and adjust parameter windows. The Fupla Editor also includes the new symbol editor window. It is also possible to open more than one Fupla file in the same instance. It is also possible to copy and paste adjusts parameters from one FBox to another similar FBox.
- IL Editor
  The IL Editor contains a new selector window where the installed FB and CSF libraries are shown. With a simple drag and drop, the user can add the FB or CSF calls, including information about the required parameters into his code.
  The following new PCD3- and PCD2.M5 features are supported:
  o "temporary data" (TEQU) has been introduced in order to reduce the number of resources used inside FBs or macros.
  o Support for IEEE and IEEE double arithmetics
- Graftec Editor
  Graftec templates can be created in order to re-use code in an easy way and to improve the development time. The new smart cursor functionality speeds up the diagram design. The interaction between Graftec and the IL and Fupla editors has been improved, including the debugging.
- Library Manager
  The new Library Manager gives an overview of the installed FBox, FB and CSF libraries and offers the possibility to copy library into the project in order to have a backup file that includes the libraries.
- Watch Window
  Trend functionality has been added in the Watch Window. The user can visualize digital or analogue values and check online the behaviour of the controlled system.
Restrictions of PG5 2.0 and PG5 2.1

Not all hardware and communication features are supported by PG5 2.0/PG5 2.1.
For installations containing the following products, PG5 1.4.300 will be available in future.
- PCD4 and PCD6 CPUs
- Profibus FMS
- Serial-S-Bus RIO Configurator (e.g. for PCD1.T240)
Why after an download of a PG5 2.2.230 project to the PCD, where BACnet revision 14 is used, the application program on the PCD doesn’t work correctly and have a randomly unexpected/unwanted functionality? (FAQ #102013)
Due to an error on the PG5 2.2.230 BACnet compiler, PCD resource addresses changes (Reg-ister/Flags/DB’s/Text address change of existing symbols) on existing PG5 projects are not detected from the PG5 BACnet compiler and therefore the changed PCD resource addresses are not taken in account in the PCD after the download of the modified program.

Concerned products:
All PCD’s with FW 1.28.xx or later where BACnet revision 14 is used and where modified PG5 2.2.230 projects are loaded to the PCD.

The error doesn’t occur if:
- the PCD doesn’t contain a BACnet program.
- BACnet revision 9 features are used on PG5 2.2.230.
- PG5 2.3.xxx is used
- PG5 2.1 / PG5 2.0 or PG5 1.4 is used.
Error description:
Due to an error on the PG5 2.2.230 BACnet compiler, PCD resource addresses changes (Reg-ister/Flags/DB’s/Text address change of existing symbols) on existing PG5 projects are not detected from the PG5 BACnet compiler and therefore the changed PCD resource addresses are not taken in account in the PCD after the download of the modified program.

Detail information:
The PG5 BACnet compiler generate a checksum (CRC) over all PCD resources. This CRC is checked by the PCD firmware after the program download or the restart of the PCD to detect if the BACnet configuration has changed.
If the CRC has changed, then the PCD firmware forces the BACnet stack to reload the BACnet configuration in the PCD.
If the CRC has not changed then BACnet configuration is not loaded again in to the BACnet stack.
The error consists in the fact, that on PG5 2.2.230, the BACnet compiler doesn’t uses the PCD resource address for the CRC calculation and therefore a PCD resource address change of already existing PG5 resources doesn’t generate a different CRC.

The change of PCD resource addresses (Register/Flags/DB’s/Text addresses change of exist-ing symbols) could occur at any time to all, from PG5 automatically allocated PCD resources, if an existing PG5 2.2.230 project is modified or if the user changes manually allocated address of existing PG5 resources.

Error behavior:
The above described error lead to the situation that after the download of a modified PG5 ap-plication to the PCD, the BACnet Stack on the PCD uses still the old PCD resource address of PG5 resources instead of the new one.
This error could invoke a malfunction of the application program running on the PCD for PCD resources which are used/handled from the BACnet stack.

This behaviour could result to the situation that the application program on the PCD doesn’t work correctly and could create/provoke a randomly unexpected/unwanted functionality of the PCD application program.

Error correction:
The error will be fixed in PG5 2.2.234 or newer PG5 2.2 versions.
PG5 2.2.234 or newer should be available at the beginning of 2018.

Workaround for PG5 2.2.230:
The recalculation of the CRC can be forced by the user, if after each build something is changed manually in the BACnet configurator.
For example, a text string for the ‘Description’ or the ‘Location’ item on the BACnet configurator where the name could added with an underline ‘_’.
The new calculated CRC will then force the BACnet stack to load the new configuration.

Example to force the recalculation of the CRC:
Old Value for Location was ‘Murten’ New Value for Location is ‘Murten_’
PG5 2.1 and 2.2 with E-Line S-Bus communication library < 1.2.110, why the S-Bus communication on the master PCD stops either after a certain time? (FAQ #102009)

Due to an error on the E-Line S-Bus communication library < 1.2.110, the S-Bus communication stops after a certain time, if the communication mode ‘on Event’ or ‘on Sampling time n’ has been selected on the S-Bus communication FBoxes

Problem description:
If on the S-Bus FBox ‘SEND’ or ‘RCV’ the communication mode ‘on Event’ or ‘on Sampling time n’ was selected then after the update of the PG5 E-Line S-Bus communication library < 1.2.110, the S-Bus communication of the ‘SEND’ or ‘RCV’ FBox stops after a certain time and no S-Bus data’s are exchanged to the S-Bus slaves.
This problem occurs on all possible communication channels like RS485 or Ethernet.

The communication works well, if on the above mentioned FBoxes the communication mode was set to ‘On each cycle’ or ‘on data change’.

Detail information about the behavior:
Communication stops after a certain time:
The communication stops after 24 days after a power on of the PCD because the PCD internal millisecond systemcounter which is used for the event transmission has reached his maximum value and will be reseted to the value 0. Due of an error on the FBox library, this situation leads then to the communication failure.

Solution:
Either configure the communication mode in the ‘old’ FBox to ‘On each cycle’ or ‘on data change’ or use the E-Line S-Bus communication library 1.2.110 or newer.
The error is fixed in the FBox library 1.2.110, means the ‘event’ or ‘on sampling time’ communication runs well.
PG5 2.1 and PG5 2.2 with S-Bus communication library 2.7.370, why the S-Bus communication on the master PCD stops either after a certain time or after the download of the program? (FAQ #102008)

Due to an error on the communication library 2.7.370, the S-Bus communication stops after a certain time or after the download of the program, if the communication mode ‘on Event’ or ‘on Sampling time n’ has been selected on the S-Bus communication FBoxes

Problem description:
If on the S-Bus FBox ‘SASI S-Bus Master’, ‘SASI S-Bus extended’, ‘SEND’ or ‘RCV’ the communication mode ‘on Event’ or ‘on Sampling time n’ was selected then after the update of the PG5 communication library to the version 2.7.370, the S-Bus communication of the ‘SEND’ or ‘RCV’ FBox stops after a certain time or after the download of the new compiled program and no S-Bus data’s are exchanged anymore to the S-Bus slaves.
This problem occurs on all possible communication channels like RS485 or Ethernet.
The communication works well, if on the above mentioned FBoxes the communication mode was set to ‘On each cycle’ or ‘on data change’.

Detail information about the behavior:
Communication stops after a certain time:
The communication stops after 24 days after a power on of the PCD because the PCD internal millisecond systemcounter which is used for the event transmission has reached his maximum value and will be reseted to the value 0. Due of an error on the FBox library, this situation leads then to the communication failure.

Communication stops after the download of the new compiled program:
The library 2.7.370 internally uses a register which was not used before.
Depending of the value stored in the past in this register it’s possible that the S-Bus communication runs well or stops after the download of the program.

Solution:
Either configure the communication mode in the ‘old’ FBox to ‘On each cycle’ or ‘on data change’ or use the S-Bus communication FBox library 2.7.380 or newer.
The error is fixed in the FBox library 2.7.380, means the ‘event’ or ‘on sampling time’ communication runs well.
No Refresh from State of I/O's from E-Line Rio- Moduls after Fbox Update (FAQ #102001)

Fbox Update of the E-Line Library causes Problem with I/O refresh in Fupla

Symptoms

PG5 2.2.140 with E-Line Fbox Library V2.1.100.
After the automatical Fbox Update in the Fupla Editor, the Projekt will be Rebuilded and downloaded into the PCD without Errors.
Checking the Funktions Online, there is no Refresh for the States of Inputs and Funktion for the Outputs visible.
An Kommunikation Error is not indicated.

Reason

An Error in the PG5 2.2.140 does not perform a clean update

Solution

Is described in FAQ 101994

In PG5 2.2.220 the Error is fixed
Why does the fupla in PG5 2.2.140 deletes connexions? (FAQ #101996)

Line length equal to 0 will be deleted from fupla

A function added in fupla of the version 2.2.140 create an error when the line lenght is equal to 0.

This could happened to all project made with version 2.2.xx.

The problem does occurs when connectors are directly connected to the Fbox as following

During programming, everything would work fine.

--> The problem does occurs when a fupla is reopen. During opening, a function does check the line lengh and does delete if lengh = 0.

In addition to this, no error would be displayed for the unconnected labels.

In that case, only the missing Fbox input would create an error.

Here is the view after compiling and reopening the fupla

In occurrence, as this wrong behavior could create big hidden problems, it is highly recommended to install the hotfix 1.

This problem has been corrected in the hotfix 1 for 2.2.140. and will be included from version of PG5 2.2.200

Please download the patch from here

Unzip the folder and replace these files in the installation folder of your PG5 2.2.140 version

default path is:

c:\Program Files (x86)\SBC\PG5 V2.2.140

--> Once the Fupla program is open click on "Save all".

If you have had such open connection in the program, "incomplete network errors" will appear during the compilation. Simply reconnect the disconnected connections showed by the red arrow.
Why it’s not possible to distribute the corrections (hotfix files) for PG5 over the PG5 update manager? (FAQ #101983)

The PG5 hotfix files allow us to supply you corrections/enhancements of PG5 components in an easy and fast way.

Actually the PG5 update manager is able to handle only installation packages files and therefore it’s not possible to use the PG5 update manager for the distribution of single files.

For this reason the hotfix files are actually only available on the support homepage.
Why in PG5 2.2.130 it's not possible to map in the BACnet Configurator analogue values to PCD medias? (FAQ #101981)

Due of a error in PG5 2.2.130 it's not possible to map in the BACnet configurator analogue values to PCD medias.

This error is fixed since the Hotfix 1 of PG5 2.2.130 or since PG5 2.2.140
On PG5 2.2.130, why it’s no more possible to access from scada or web page to the HEVAC F-Box ‘Override digital’ and ‘Override numeric’ and to manipulate/force the F-Box internal adjust parameters from scada or web page? (FAQ #101980)
Due of an error in PG5 2.2.130 it’s no more possible to manipulate/force the F-Box internal adjust parameters from scada or web page of the 2 above mentioned F-Boxes and therefore it’s not possible to use the override functionally of the F-Boxes.

The problem does occur only, if one of the two above mentioned F-Boxes are new placed in a Fupla page in PG5 2.2.130 and if the F-Box does contains ‘user defined internal static variables’ and the definition of the ‘user defined internal static variables’ was done over the ‘right mouse click menu’ ‘Adjust Parameters’

There is no problem if:
- The project was taken over from PG5 2.1 and on this project in the F-Boxes there was a user defined or a system defined variable.
- The F-Box is placed new in Fupla of PG5 2.2.130 and the internal symbols are ‘system defined’
Correction is done in the Hotfix 1 for PG5 2.2.130 or since PG5 2.2.140
The special FBox library PCD7_D7 is now available for PG5 2.0. (FAQ #101356)

The FBox library regarding the exchanges of datas with the Panels ESA (PCD7.D7xx) and PCD controllers is available for PG5 2.0 and can be used also in PG5 2.1, PG5 2.2 and PG5 2.3.

The FBox library is attached to this FAQ

On PG5 2.1, PG5 2.2 and PG5 2.3 a warning will be shown on the library manager 'BAD VERSION NUMBER' but it's possible to use the FBoxes in Fupla without problems