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New Black Nova Keypads Driver

Date 06/30/2023

New Drivers

Black Nova Keypads v1.0

Black Nova is an Italian Smart Design Keypads manufacturer based in Milan, focused on pure design, premium technologies, and continued innovation. RTI integration enables Black Nova ALBA, ARIA, BLACK JACK, and AXES series keypads to be configured to control and monitor any device connected to an RTI processor. The driver works with all possible button combinations supported by Black Nova to control lighting, climate, and more, with separate events for Press, Hold, and Release for each button in the Keypad.

Driver features:

  • Integrate up to 64 Black Nova Keypads.
  • Supports ALBA, ARIA, BLACK JACK, and AXES series Keypads.
  • Supports external value display (like Setpoint or Room Temperatures, Fan Speed, AC Mode, Analog or Percentages) on ALBA-M1, ARIA-M1 & AXES-TT series Keypads with Display.
  • Supports all possible Button combinations supported by Black Nova.
  • Up to 64 pre configurable Color Preset for use in setting Button feedback status.
  • Status Variables to show the following:
    • 'Wake-Up' Status of Keypad.
    • RGB Color values set for ON Status
    • RGB Color values set for OFF Status.
    • External 'Room Temperature' received from other thermostat controllers integrated with RTI.
    • Setpoint Temperature.
    • 'Room Temperature' in °C or °F received from Keypad internal sensor.
    • 'Humidity' levels received from Keypad internal sensor.
    • 'Card Insert' status for AXES CR/CH Keypads.
    • 'Press', 'Hold' & 'Release' Boolean state for all Buttons of the Keypad.
  • Events to call other RTI driver functions:
    • Keypad 'Wake-Up'.
    • 'Card Inserted / Removed' for AXES CR/CH Keypads.
    • 'Press', 'Hold' & 'Release' for each of the buttons on Keypad.

New Black Nova Driver

 

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