Appendix E — Glossary
Action — Which event on an actor fires a wire: Short down, Timer elapsed, Sensor high overflow. See Appendix A.
Short down / Short up / Long down / Long up — The four button actions. "Down" means press, "up" means release: Short down is a short press, Short up a short release, Long down a long press (held ~1.5 s), Long up a long release. Older documentation calls them Short press / Short release / Long press / Long release — the same four events.
Actor — The thing that starts a rule: a button, a sensor, a timer, a program. The left-hand side of a wire.
Address — A unit's hexadecimal identifier on the bus. Must be unique across the whole system and must match the physical hardware.
Alarm group — A group of digital inputs watched together. See Tutorial 9.
Analog — A device with a range of values, 0 % to 100 % — a dimmer. As opposed to digital.
Astronomical module — A virtual unit providing sunrise, sunset and moon phase as digital inputs. One per project. See Tutorial 7.
Autoreset / autostop — Timer options deciding whether it returns to zero and whether it stops on reaching its value.
BUS — The data cable linking all units to the central unit.
Central unit (CU) — The DIN-rail device that stores and runs your project. CU3-08M, CU3-09M and CU3-10M are current; CU3-07M is obsolete but still supported for servicing.
Compound object — An icon representing a whole unit, or all system devices of one type. As opposed to a basic object, which is one input or output.
Condition — A test that gates a wire, so it fires only sometimes. Added as a Restriction value or Restriction object.
Consumer — The thing a rule acts on: a relay, a dimmer, a heating area, a timer. The right-hand side of a wire.
Digital — A device with two states, on and off — a relay. As opposed to analog.
DALI — A lighting bus, reached through an EMDC-64M module. See Chapter 21.
EBM — The central unit's bus interface for system modules. Up to 20.
.elp — The project file extension. Internally a ZIP archive of XML files.
EZS — Elektronická zabezpečovací signalizace — the electronic security system subsystem.
Favorite1–4 — The four preset temperatures in a heating time plan, used across the whole heating system. Internally named minimum, attenuate, normal and comfort.
.fncb — A function block template file. Stored in funcBloks\, not in the project.
Function — What a wire does to its consumer: Digital switch ON, Analog set level. See Appendix B.
Function block — A reusable logic structure including its own timers, counters and conditions. More capable than a macro. See Tutorial 10.
Group — Several consumers controlled as one. Types: Digital, Analog, Alarm, Temperature.
Heat/Cool area — A heating and cooling regulator: sensor, outputs, schedule and limits. Runs continuously in the CU. See Tutorial 6.
IMM — The iNELS visualisation / multimedia export format. Export IMM.
Impulse — A function that switches an output and switches it back after an impulse time.
iDM3 — iNELS3 Designer & Manager. This software.
Macro — A saved bundle of actions and functions applied to wires as you draw them. Copied into the wire, not linked.
Master / slave / unit — The three levels of the device tree: the central unit, the bus master modules under it, and the peripheral devices under those.
Non volatile — A system bit or integer option: keep the value across a central-unit reboot.
Program — A time-based actor. Types: Periodical, Continuous, Two-state, Heating/Cooling - week, Heating/Cooling day.
Ramp — A gradual level change. Ramp length is the time for a full 0→100 % sweep, so partial changes are proportionally quicker.
ReMap — Moving every reference from one device to another. Far safer than deleting and re-adding, which destroys the wires.
Restriction object — A condition comparing one device's state against another device's.
Restriction value — A condition comparing a device's state against a value you type.
Super-user mode — A mode unlocking hidden settings. Use only when ELKO EP support asks.
System bit — One true/false stored in the CU. Up to 500.
System integer — One number stored in the CU. Up to 500.
Time stamp — A point on a program's daily graph. Up to 16 per day.
Timer — A countdown in the CU. Up to 64, from 0.0 s to 24 h. Timer start on a running timer restarts it.
Unicate name — iDM3's wording for "unique name". Used for groups and functions.
Wire — One rule: actor, consumer, and the functions between them. Nothing to do with cable.
Yellow dot — Marks an icon on a floor plan that is not assigned to a real device. It does nothing until you Connect it.
See also: Chapter 2 — How programming works