I've been a user of Evohome since the b/w version was first launched and have been very pleased with its capabilities since day one. I live in an old detached house with some solid walls and used all the original 8 zones. I never had any great problem with the system that I could not sort out with a little help from this forum.
I've always had the controller in my office on the ground floor in a non-centrally located corner of the house. I never had any connect/disconnect issues with any of the actuators or the DTS92 sensors I use in the main rooms. I've upgraded with each new version as it came out and now use all 12 zones. I've also been slowly upgrading to new style actuators by deleting zones and rebinding them. It all works well except for one annoying issue.
Since the last upgrade upgrade (though I can't tie it to that upgrade precisely) I was getting multiple errors with both sensors and actuators in multiple locations located in the furthest parts of the house. This sometimes got up to six a day, though connections were always remade and sometimes it took up to an hour.
As a test last week I move the controller to the hall which is centrally located in the house and I have not had a single fault since I did this. I guess the controller will now stay in the hall.
However I wonder why this is so? The office location for the controller in my office has been absolutely fine until recently so what has changed? Certainly not my house and I've not added any new wireless devices in the house. I am a radio amateur and use high power VHF amplifiers but they have never caused any issue with Evohome. It makes me think that receiver sensitivities have been reduced for some reason?
Chris
I've always had the controller in my office on the ground floor in a non-centrally located corner of the house. I never had any connect/disconnect issues with any of the actuators or the DTS92 sensors I use in the main rooms. I've upgraded with each new version as it came out and now use all 12 zones. I've also been slowly upgrading to new style actuators by deleting zones and rebinding them. It all works well except for one annoying issue.
Since the last upgrade upgrade (though I can't tie it to that upgrade precisely) I was getting multiple errors with both sensors and actuators in multiple locations located in the furthest parts of the house. This sometimes got up to six a day, though connections were always remade and sometimes it took up to an hour.
As a test last week I move the controller to the hall which is centrally located in the house and I have not had a single fault since I did this. I guess the controller will now stay in the hall.
However I wonder why this is so? The office location for the controller in my office has been absolutely fine until recently so what has changed? Certainly not my house and I've not added any new wireless devices in the house. I am a radio amateur and use high power VHF amplifiers but they have never caused any issue with Evohome. It makes me think that receiver sensitivities have been reduced for some reason?
Chris
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