What’s New in SB

5.50

  • DALI-2

    • New DALI-2 compatible sensors - DNS360LB-CR-PIR-DALI and DNS360LB-CS-PIR-DALI

    • New DALI-2 compatible Dry Contact with 5 inputs - DLLI5-DALI

    • Updated DDBC320-DALI/DALI-2 and DDBC120-DALI/DALI-2 controllers

    • DALI Diagnostics supported on DDBC120-DALI/DALI2 controller

    • Support up to 40 new DNS-DALI sensors and up to 16 DLLI5-DALI per universe (max. 40 devices total per universe)

    • Bulk DALI firmware upgrade for DALI-2 devices

  • Dynalite Sensors

  • New DyNet sensors: DNS360LB-CR-PIR-DyNet and DNS360LB-CS-PIR-DyNet

  • DirectSet

  • The Dynalite DirectSet range of preconfigured button user interfaces add simple, reliable controls to Dynalite projects

  • Built-in dual RJ45 ports provide hassle-free wiring termination, while familiar single-gang form factor ensures seamless installation

  • Preloaded with multiple button configurations from three to eight buttons, selectable via easily accessible rotary switches

  • Bridge Wizard

  • Select which Gateway Services are supported on a PDDEG-S

  • Configures ports and routing to selected PDDEG-S to provide these services to the rest of the network

  • Translation

  • Updated Chinese and Spanish translations for Ribbon UI and other windows

5.49

  • Dynalite Assist (New)

    • Integrated access to online AI support, combining the existing Commissioning Assistant and Design Assistant into a single, more intelligent guidance engine.

    • Provides contextual help, recommended actions, and troubleshooting in real time.

  • Modern Ribbon Interface

    • New ribbon-style menu improves feature discovery and reduces navigation steps.

    • Frequently used tools are now grouped more intuitively for commissioning workflows.

  • Streamlined Logical Channel Types

    • Simplified channel type options make programming faster and reduce configuration ambiguity.

    • Improved defaults help new users achieve correct behaviour with less setup.

  • Enhanced Copy / Cut Special

    • Better support for splitting or combining large or multi-wing floor plans.

    • Ensures channel mapping, areas, and device relationships remain intact during layout restructuring. CoolPlug Integration Template * New task template for CoolPlug devices, enabling faster integration setup and consistent commissioning patterns.

4.47

  • Support configuring new Antumbra Colour Display (DADPA / DADPE)

  • Improvements is saving and opening job files from Dynalite cloud

  • Perform configuration version check when saving to a device to prevent overriding configuration

  • Read in current status and channel runtime of load controllers before saving to prevent overriding

  • Show dry contact inputs in Building view and allow dragging onto floor plan

  • Improvements in DALI diagnostics on DDBC320-DALI

4.46

  • Support adding Delays and Sending Presets and Channels to specific Areas into Custom Action editor

  • Support Gold/Silver/Champagne themes for Revolution Display (PDRDXXE)

  • Support new products PD-PCN and PD-232N

4.45

  • Support Export Spur to new job file feature to export the devices, areas, and floor plans of one or more selected spurs to a separate job file. The spur configuration can be modified before being re-imported back into the master job file or System Manager database.

  • Support configuring new Revolution Display (PDRDXXE) with graphical widgets

  • Condensed device context menus in System and Building views with the most common actions at the top and less common actions moved to submenus - Configure, Network Actions, and Gateway Actions. Toolstrip icon order has been modified to match the new context menus.

  • Moved configuration windows from Tools menu to Window menu

4.44

  • Most user guides now browser-based with improved search/navigation, access via Help > User Guides or F1. (Remaining PDF guides to be added soon)

  • Show BLA column in Areas view and automatically configure area BLA property when drawing BLA regions on the floor plan.

  • Extended Quick Fixture Setup window to support creating tuneable white and RGB fixtures.

  • Default to maintaining preconfigured area preset levels when loading from a device.

  • Support new DLLI8I8O-IR product for transmitting IR codes. Import ccf files containing IR codes.

  • Support new DDNG232 product with two-way integration available in tasking using SendP, SendPF, and StartX commands

  • DDNG485-DMX-RX Preset action supports logical channel selection

  • Connection settings improvements

4.43

  • New Localise Lamps process to speed up simultaneous commissioning of multiple fixtures on floor plan. The previous single-lamp process can be reenabled in the Localise Lamps dialog.

  • New Connection Settings > DyNet Mute option to prevent accidental changes upon connecting.

  • New floor plan tools: Set Background Scale Factor > Measure Distance and Show/Hide Layers > Global Coordinates.

  • PDDEG-S/PDEG/PDEB: Ports > General > Route RS-485 bad packets to trunk option enables gateways to route bad packets received on the RS-485 spur to the trunk port inside a valid DyNet2 message for analysis.

  • Added support for LED strip fixture profiles.

4.42

  • Added gateway TCP port connection option

  • Improved device/logical preset synchronisation

4.41

  • Changed the Action Column description in DDNG485-DMX-Rx

  • Updated Bridge Configuration Wizard

4.40

  • Added DDC116 signal dimming controller

4.39

  • Add new area property to configure the BLA (Base Link Area) for all outputs in the area

  • Support DALI diagnostics tab for DDBC320-DALI that can be used to detect DALI network issues

  • Support sending message to trigger button presses from button editor. Supported on DACM firmware version 3.19

  • Quick Start Guide under Help menu now links to browser-based searchable documentation

  • Support editing Indoor Positioning System sites opened from retail cloud. Add, remove and modify lights, Bluetooth beacons and analytic zones

  • Improve configuration of Day Rhythm Feature using Synchronise button on gateway Rhythm Send tab

  • Add persistent memory tasking feature on DDBC120-DALI, DDRC420, DDRC1220

4.38

  • Renamed DALI ballasts to DALI drivers

  • Support Enable / Disable All check box for Ethernet Trunk connections

4.37

Minor bug fixes

4.36

BacNET on PDDEG-S

  • Supported on a PDDEG-S firmware version 1.24 onwards without constraining any of the current feature set of this gateway

  • Configured in System Builder with a very simple wizard

  • Trial licence allows you to set the device up and test it will the licence request is processed

  • Licences available for 100, 1000, 5000 and 10000 point setups

  • Offers the point types available today in the JACE plus 2 additional binary point types representing a high level overview of device offline and lamp/driver failure

New DDNG485, DDNG485-DMX-TX, DDNG485-DMX-RX

  • Support configuring the new DDNG485 gateway

  • New DDNG485-DMX-TX and DDNG485-DMX-RX support the full 512 DMX channels

  • Use 'Change Device Type' to upgrade existing DDNG485 to new device

Simplified Commissioning

  • Ethernet devices and their available open ports can now be discovered by mDNS using Search Devices - Discover Network button. Once these devices are added to the job SystemBuilder will be able to immediately connect directly to these devices over Ethernet

  • Improvements in shape recognition to better detect fixtures on floorplans

  • Update Commissioning Assistant make steps easier to follow

  • Allow Antumbra and Revolution LED Indicator Enable property to be set per button