Just got around to installing an Evohome Security system with non-GPRS hub. The hardware is quite nice and the packaging is well done but the instructions in the boxes are rather skimpy/pictographic, except for the smoke detector and glass-break sensor where more textual detail is provided. Luckily the downloadable User Guide is more extensive, although some details are still missing.
'Binding' is done by pulling battery-tabs to power up devices while the hub is in configurable-mode (set from the web portal). If you accidentally pull a tab when not logged in to your account then you have to open the device and pull/replace the battery (not that difficult really). They do warn you several times to be careful about this so I was pre-warned but then again I read the manual online first before opening the boxes. Not sure how it would have been if I just opened the boxes and started unpacking randomly and then did an RTFM when it was too late
The configuration process for me was very hit/miss. When I first tried to add a Security setup to my existing Evohome Heating account I got an "Oops, something went wrong - Try again later" several times for several hours before I could finally get a response. Maybe Sunday is a bad day to burden the Honeywell servers?
When adding/binding devices, if you press 'enter' on the PC keyboard then instead of defaulting to saving what you've added so far, it defaults to 'cancel'. When you go back in again you'll see that the bindings were actually saved but you will have lost the custom names you gave to each device ("Front Door", "Hall Window", etc) - very annoying. After editing the name you are supposed to just click outside the entry-field but not hit enter because that will initiate cancel. Well, it's intuition to press enter after entering data so this is an easy mistake to make when you are adding a lot of devices and the highlighted cancel button has scrolled off-screen while you go back up to edit text in the list of devices. Luckily I wrote down the order in which I was adding door/window sensors and laid them on the table with post-it names for each one, otherwise I would have no clue which one was which because the default name is the model number and that's the same for all sensors of the same type.
The Security section of the iPhone App we all know and love for Heating control is a let-down. It takes up to 2 minutes to load the configuration from your hub (they warn it can take that long) but more often than not I've had timeouts and the 2 minutes wasn't even achieved. When it did respond 'quickly' it still took over 10 seconds each time - not very 2017. YMMV as it may be a web glitch they will fix. The screen shows 3 small icons at the top for Disarmed, Fully-Armed and Partially-Armed and under those icons there is a status line for the latest image data from the PIR detectors with camera. I don't have any of those in my system so it's a waste of screen real-estate to reserve for something I am not using (much like DHW in the Heating system if you have a combi-boiler and don't use it - the controller still reserves screen area for blank information). I'd prefer bigger icons for the 3 main functions, much like the Heating Zone icons in that section of the App. See the screenshot for how much screen is actually 'wasted'. Also, if you go into settings and select configuration or emergency-contact data, you are told that this functionality does not yet work in the app and receive a suggestion to check that online. You do have to log out of the app first because you can only be logged into your account from a single source at a time. Good from a security viewpoint but it will have you logging in/out of two accounts at a time for each switch (the Security section requires a separate login within the overall Evohome login).
In summary - this is a rather less mature product than Evohome Heating system, let down by the cloud portion (web/app response is patchy and sometimes broken, which I have never experienced with Evohome Heating). The physical system itself is fine and both the NFC tags and RF keyfob work very nicely. Documentation on what the 4 coloured LEDs on the NFC reader exactly signify would be nice - I've seen combinations that are not (yet) documented. FWIW, while this is branded Evohome and also uses 868MHz, the RF protocol seems to be different to Evohome Heating's Ramses II as the HGI80 sees no packets from the Security system. The fact that both systems can be controlled from the same App is handled in the cloud - not at local RF level - so Security is not supported in Domoticz and won't be until somebody packet-sniffs it and reverse-engineers, like was originally done with Ramses.
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