Special local control modes are control modes for specific, less common situations: for example keeping inverters that receive green certificates at full power, switching a generator on with a relay when the batteries run empty, or excluding a few devices from control. They run locally on the SmartgridOne Controller and do not talk to an external party, but they behave like external signals: they override the default working mode of the devices they are applied to, and they take a place in the priority list of the external signals.
Two more special local control modes are documented under the external signals, because they serve test purposes or belong with the price based signals:
The same modes can also be reached from the 'External signals' tab: click "Start wizard", choose the category "Special local control modes", choose the provider (usually "Generic" or "Eniris") and then the mode. Both routes lead to the same configuration.
Every special local control mode can only be enabled once per site. Enabling it again overwrites the previous configuration. Use "Edit special local control mode" on the management page to change the devices of an active mode.
A device can be part of several external signals and special local control modes at the same time. The signal that is highest in the priority list of the 'External signals' tab wins for that device. Special local control modes share this list with the external signals, and their priority is changed there: the management page of the special local control modes only shows them, in the order of their priority, without the arrows.
"Pause" on the management page temporarily suspends a mode without deleting its configuration: the devices fall back to the next signal in the priority list, or to the default working mode. "Resume" activates it again. A paused mode is marked "(Paused)" on the settings page.