What would you like to see in evohome? (have your say)

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  • Rameses
    Industry Expert
    • Nov 2014
    • 446

    What would you like to see in evohome? (have your say)

    Hello

    We are humbled by how supporting the community has been around evohome. Especially those who have helped others 'understand' the complexities of heating and energy control (not the most exciting party topic we know).

    We do as much research and testing as possible - but there have been some good ideas here and we want to listen more - so . . if you want please post your top 3 (put more or less if you want) things you would want to see in evohome. Whilst we cannot promise it will be done, we promise to listen. Go nuts :-)

    Please keep to a format like this

    1) xxxxx
    2) xxxxx
    3) xxxxx
    getconnected.honeywell.com | I work for Honeywell. Any posts I make are purely to help if I can. Any personal views expressed are my own
  • Otto-Mate
    Founder
    • Jan 2004
    • 882

    #2
    Thanks Rameses, these are mine...

    1) Browser Control
    2) Ability to Save Out Schedules and Reload next Winter, Summer etc
    3) Notify controller and app of locally set target temps
    4) Don't allow H92 to be turned 'OFF' so easily

    M.
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    • G4RHL
      Automated Home Legend
      • Jan 2015
      • 1580

      #3
      My penny worth!

      1. An additional one or perhaps 2 customisable menus.
      2. Better and clearer instructions in the manuals with detail of what the settings actually do plus of course details of the configuration menu for the TRVs
      3. The app properly configured for the iPad to actually do all the controller does. Plus aesthetically it could look a lot nicer. The screen on the controller looks better.

      A fourth? Perhaps web access but not too bothered about that.

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      • orange
        Automated Home Guru
        • Dec 2014
        • 149

        #4
        here's a few

        1. web browser control

        2. local temp override from hr92 reflected in the controller (don't know why this doesn't happen now ?)

        3. season schedules - ie specific schedules depending on the time of year - or save/load as suggested

        4. one off schedules for when guests stay over in the spare room or you need out of the ordinary heating requirements. i.e. "trigger once" schedules

        5. decent ipad/tablet app

        6. data logging of zone temperatures and boiler demand over time (via honeywell website - or running webserver on the gateway ?)

        7. improve ergonomics of the gui (as per Otto-home's review)

        8. more customisable settings - maybe make these able to be scheduled ?

        9. decent technical documentation for the end-user

        10. fix the annoying (for me anyway !) issue on the controller where if you set an event between midnight and 2:00am it appears next day (Ios app doesn't do this)

        11. option to turn off the beep when the controller is removed from the cradle (or set it so it beeps only every hour)

        12. put indicator on controller (and app) for 'boiler demand'

        13. ability to remove a zone from initiating 'boiler demand' so that you can use a bdr91 to control electric underfloor heating without the boiler coming on
        Last edited by orange; 20 January 2015, 11:25 AM.

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        • roydonaldson
          Automated Home Guru
          • Jan 2013
          • 205

          #5
          1. Geo-fencing. Ability to have EvoHome app on multiple phones detect everyone has left the house and set it to Economy mode. Then detect people are returning and turn Economy mode off. Similar to functionality in Tado.

          2. Support for either S Plan Plus systems, or partial installs. At the moment, you need to do a 100% install in a house, this can prove cost prohibitive in a large install ie. I have 19 radiators in my home and probably need control over only 7/8 of them to get the most benefit from EvoHome.

          3. Reporting of temperature over time. Doesn't need to be permanently active, but would be useful to turn on for a 48 hour period to check overnight temps in rooms.

          4. Open and published API access. Allow interface from Home Automation vendors, ie. a lot of what we are seeing with Nest just now.

          5. Tablet (iPad and Android) app that emulates the controller. Same GUI etc.

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          • Mavis
            Automated Home Ninja
            • Oct 2014
            • 322

            #6
            Here are mine (I have repeated some of the above in case you want to see what is popular although all a good). No particular order

            1. Ability to input a more complex schedule (for those whose week to week is not the same) Maybe a less complex solution would be to have the ability to schedule a quick action in advance.
            2. Notify controller and app of locally set target temps
            3. Better and clearer instructions in the manuals with detail of what the settings actually do plus of course details of the configuration menu for the TRVs
            4. Be able to overide with the controller or remotely, a TRV that is set to OFF manually.

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            • HenGus
              Automated Home Legend
              • May 2014
              • 1001

              #7
              I would just add a plea for reporting. When things go wrong in the quiet hours (e; the CH running for a minute) it would be nice to know the trigger. Was it a drop below a room target temperature or something else?

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              • Wallyİ
                Automated Home Sr Member
                • Jan 2015
                • 53

                #8
                1. Geofencing
                2. Ability to see actual temp to the decimal
                3. Option to turn TPI off

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                • HenGus
                  Automated Home Legend
                  • May 2014
                  • 1001

                  #9
                  2. USB updates on Evohome Controller Firmware.

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                  • orange
                    Automated Home Guru
                    • Dec 2014
                    • 149

                    #10
                    Originally posted by HenGus View Post
                    2. USB updates on Evohome Controller Firmware.
                    or firmware updates over the air like they do with the gateway (assume this happens already ?)

                    (AFAIK there haven't been any controller firmware updates so far.)

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                    • roydonaldson
                      Automated Home Guru
                      • Jan 2013
                      • 205

                      #11
                      Originally posted by orange View Post
                      or firmware updates over the air like they do with the gateway (assume this happens already ?)

                      (AFAIK there haven't been any controller firmware updates so far.)
                      I think I'd just prefer an 'About' page on the controller that gave the current firmware rev. on it and then a web page with update details/release notes.

                      The exact upgrade mechanism I'm not that bothered about.

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                      • Wallyİ
                        Automated Home Sr Member
                        • Jan 2015
                        • 53

                        #12
                        Perhaps somewhat off topic but I would like to be able to control my evohome through the iOS 8 notification centre on my iPhone... Much like 'Thermos' does for the 'Nest' thermostat...
                        Last edited by Wallyİ; 20 January 2015, 07:43 PM.

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                        • SteveP
                          Automated Home Guru
                          • Dec 2012
                          • 190

                          #13
                          Great idea Rameses

                          My top 3 Main Requirements and top 2 Nice to Haves which again are covered in the thread but hopefully the re-occurring themes will be selected if not too difficult 

                          Main requirements
                          1) Windows IE app with full control as per the controller
                          2) Ability to save out schedules – I do change the schedule during spring/autumn and then readjust for winter as the same temp in spring/summer seems different in winter (for the reasons you have sited already elsewhere such as humidity etc)
                          3) Better control over quick action custom settings such as being able to create a special schedule with different times and temps per zone – For example I use the custom one for evening parties but I want the bathrooms hotter than the other rooms

                          Nice to Have Requirements

                          1) Feedback from the zone when the zone overridden by the local setting (save me running around trying to figure out why a zone is still running only to find one of the offspring has locally overridden)
                          2) Windows IE app – zone history - feedback from each zone of zone temp/zone setting/outside temp on a 10 minute interval over a rolling 24 hour period (as per many of the apps that have been written on this forum by individuals) to monitor zone performance

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                          • roydonaldson
                            Automated Home Guru
                            • Jan 2013
                            • 205

                            #14
                            Additional thought:

                            Integration with Honeywell Galaxy range of alarms.

                            For instance, do Full Set on alarm set economy mode on evohome.

                            This probably sounds like the easiest of the requests, but it's probably the hardest to deliver.

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                            • emmeesse68
                              Automated Home Guru
                              • Dec 2014
                              • 103

                              #15
                              My thoughts... All of the above! aaanyway... something had already been mentioned but it's worth repeating:

                              1) browser control - HTML5 "app" (would be almost universal)
                              2) status indication for each sensor/actuator (including boiler control) to be aware of what's going on, through the controller, app AND browser access
                              3) directly accessible web server on the gateway/controller, or user web server integration
                              4) data reporting, user-configurable in terms of details (should include point 2 above) and frequency sampling, and maybe with database integration directly through the gateway
                              5) ...an official Windows Phone app?
                              6) TRV override reported in controller/app/website
                              7) the ability of setting alerts, e.g. when temperature goes too far from setpoint (indicating there's something wrong) or when there's no response to commands
                              8) OpenTherm detailed status: should be able to report CH and DHW setpoints, activity, water pressure, outside temperature (if there's a probe connected to the boiler)
                              9) a sort of "computer gateway" component to stick into an USB port, with some software to read out all data, parameters, schedules, ... directly... by the way the EvoHome controller does have a USB port (!)
                              10) some kind of "non-heating channel", to be able to use a BDR91 to control something else (e.g. to cut power to the boiler to reset it in case it appears blocked for some reason)
                              11) oh yes, official APIs...

                              Can't think of more - but there's plenty... EvoHome is a good system, that can be made better!

                              cheers

                              M

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