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  • gordonb3
    Automated Home Ninja
    • Dec 2016
    • 273

    #16
    Originally posted by phier View Post
    What internal sesnsor do you mean? I am bit confused, you mean BDR91?
    No. The internal sensor of the boiler. As I see it, the boiler is meant to keep an amount of hot water, say 100 litres, that is within some temperature range. If the temperature drops below the threshold then the boiler will fire up and in your case this will apparently obey some time limits, or be subjected to a network operator controlled switch either inside or outside your home.

    As stated this does not fall within the control of Evohome, nor should it. Evohome cannot predict when you will manually turn up the heat. It can also not predict when you will take a shower or run a bath. The boiler will thus need to hold enough hot water to match any of these needs at all times.

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    • DanD
      Automated Home Ninja
      • Feb 2016
      • 250

      #17
      I was thinking that the room temperature might drop during some of the 40min periods so that you notice it feeling cooler. If this happens you could increase the setpoint by 0.5deg to keep the room at a more comfortable temperature. It may not be necessary though.

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      • phier
        Automated Home Jr Member
        • Oct 2019
        • 18

        #18
        Originally posted by DanD View Post
        I was thinking that the room temperature might drop during some of the 40min periods so that you notice it feeling cooler. If this happens you could increase the setpoint by 0.5deg to keep the room at a more comfortable temperature. It may not be necessary though.
        yes but that doesnt solve the issue as this 40min intervals are 6 times per day... https://imgur.com/a/6d2Nd8J

        first row means monday till thursday
        2/ friday
        3/ sat
        4/ sun

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        • phier
          Automated Home Jr Member
          • Oct 2019
          • 18

          #19
          Originally posted by gordonb3 View Post
          No. The internal sensor of the boiler. As I see it, the boiler is meant to keep an amount of hot water, say 100 litres, that is within some temperature range. If the temperature drops below the threshold then the boiler will fire up and in your case this will apparently obey some time limits, or be subjected to a network operator controlled switch either inside or outside your home.

          As stated this does not fall within the control of Evohome, nor should it. Evohome cannot predict when you will manually turn up the heat. It can also not predict when you will take a shower or run a bath. The boiler will thus need to hold enough hot water to match any of these needs at all times.
          Well and that's another issue... "electric boiler needs to hold enough hot water to match any need" that implies it has to run 24/7 and to be ready to provide heat once requested and valves opened. That electric boiler is powered off by its internal sensor once the water reaches specific temp, and if temp is colled down via radiators and falls down it has to be powered on by some control unit like Evo controller or some room thermostat stored in reference room. But I wanted zoned control so thats why I don't want to use thermostat placed in the one reference room.

          Then there is another issue regarding those 40min intervals (https://imgur.com/a/6d2Nd8J) ... because evo will never know about this intervals it means it will let temp fall down and if required at specific moment try to send signal to BRD91 to power on boiler to heat up - but once the signal is sent and matches the 40min interval - no heating will be possible thus evo will get confused why it cant increase room temp in lets say 30min by 1C as it normally can so it will completely corrupt its internal fuzzy logic (thas my assumption). That's why I wanted somehow set more intervals per day and during these 6x40min set temp to let's say 15C.


          Frankly there are zero Evo home specialists in country (czech republic)... they just sell units but you can't find any specialist/company that can install it and setup it correctly. That's why I was trying to ask people for help here ...


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          So here's the thing: I don't think you should try let Evohome control whether or not the boiler goes into a heating cycle for the simple reason that Evohome cannot predict any manual input you might perform in the next 1-40 minutes. You use Evohome in the secundary part of the system to control if, where and when the heat is deployed to any of the available radiators (or other heating devices) and thus how much heat is drawn from the boiler, which in turn determines whether or not it's internal sensor will cause it to switch on at the next available slot.
          "

          Well not really, the electric boiler I have work in the following fashion: once some control unit or external thermostat send a signal to it ... it will start to boil water and once it reaches specific tempreature it stops boiling water. If the temp of water inside the electric boiler falls down under some level nothing will happen - it will wait for another Power-on signal from control unit/thermostat. That's why I thought using BRD91 and evo controller I can power it on to increase temp inside the boiler per zone/while required.



          Also, how can I query the actual temperature, as the mobile app shows the same number as on the controller?

          thank you
          Last edited by phier; 19 November 2019, 12:16 AM.

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          • DanD
            Automated Home Ninja
            • Feb 2016
            • 250

            #20
            Thanks for the additional info on how the 40min periods are spread throughout the day. I'd wrongly guessed that more of them would be grouped together near times if highest demand e.g evening. I think the Evohome system will cope OK with them. If the BDR91 requests heat during one of the off periods, it will continue to request heat until the end of the off period and the boiler starts. It will only stop asking for heat when the zones are comfortably close to their setpoints.

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            • gordonb3
              Automated Home Ninja
              • Dec 2016
              • 273

              #21
              Right, so not the same. As it has been explained to me heizungsstrom allows people in Germany to create hot water buffers at a strongly reduced price per kWh during the night. Thus the hot water is already there for comfort when the heat is turned on in the morning. Your setup seems very tricky to me as you are essentially deprived of any heating during a number of 40 minute periods spread throughout the day and the only hot water you do have stored for comfort is in the radiators themselves.

              I suppose if your pattern for turning on/up the heat stays clear of those 40 minute "blackouts" that will work just fine with Evohome. If I were in your place I'd probably use a timer as a secondary trigger for the boiler, say 5 minutes before a planned blackout period starts in which I may be likely to generate a heat demand. You might need a bigger and/or better insulated boiler for that though.

              PS I think the Evohome phone app has the same .5 degree resolution as the central console. You should have a look a the various home automation projects, e.g. Domoticz supports Evohome with a temperature resolution of up to two decimals. If you are into programming you can also create an app yourself. Libraries for accessing the API are available in various scripting and programming languages, like python, js, cpp and c#.

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              • phier
                Automated Home Jr Member
                • Oct 2019
                • 18

                #22
                Originally posted by DanD View Post
                Thanks for the additional info on how the 40min periods are spread throughout the day. I'd wrongly guessed that more of them would be grouped together near times if highest demand e.g evening. I think the Evohome system will cope OK with them. If the BDR91 requests heat during one of the off periods, it will continue to request heat until the end of the off period and the boiler starts. It will only stop asking for heat when the zones are comfortably close to their setpoints.
                but what about its fuzzy logic...?

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                • DanD
                  Automated Home Ninja
                  • Feb 2016
                  • 250

                  #23
                  I don't think these 40min no heat periods will mess up the Evohome controller's 'fuzzy logic' heating optimisation algorithm. My confidence is due to the fact that even with standard gas boilers there are periods where they don't respond to a heat demand from the BDR91. These situations can be due to a design setting on the boiler where it only allows requests for heating at a certain frequency so that it isn't constantly turning on and off which is inefficient or it may have been set-up with hot water priority so it preferentially heats the hot water for washing rather than for the central heating. Based upon the experience of other Evohome users who have these types of installations it should work OK.

                  As Gordon has explained, it is also possible to either control Evohome by additional software which could alter the temperature setpoints in your zones as often as you like or add an additional timer control to your boiler prior to each of the 40min periods.

                  Dan

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                  • phier
                    Automated Home Jr Member
                    • Oct 2019
                    • 18

                    #24
                    I am more afraid about the accuracy of the evohome...

                    right now control unit shows 22C, target temp was set to 22C ... but my other two thermometers show 23.5C and radiator is still hot... so i am not sure if it is able to control tempreture as set/expected in the room. no clue why this is happening?


                    thanks

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                    • DanD
                      Automated Home Ninja
                      • Feb 2016
                      • 250

                      #25
                      The only comments I can add are that my experiences with the use of the Evohome controller as a room temperature sensor have been positive. You also have the option to use the temperature sensors within the HR92s themselves which also works well for me and is more convenient than the use of the controller as they are obviously located within each zone. The results that you are observing may possibly be that the Evohome controller is less sensitive to rapid changes in temperature as it is intended to smoothly control the temperature in a room and it might be smoothing out rapid changes in temperature, but this is only a guess. If the controller is continually reporting a lower or higher temperature than you feel is accurate then you can also use the 'internal offset' feature which allows you to correct for this.

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                      • gordonb3
                        Automated Home Ninja
                        • Dec 2016
                        • 273

                        #26
                        Originally posted by phier View Post
                        I am more afraid about the accuracy of the evohome...

                        right now control unit shows 22C, target temp was set to 22C ... but my other two thermometers show 23.5C and radiator is still hot... so i am not sure if it is able to control tempreture as set/expected in the room. no clue why this is happening?


                        thanks
                        Are you sure that you are measuring what you think you are measuring? While it is possible to configure the controller to be the temperature sensor for the zone where it is (always) in, the default is that the first HR92 you define as part of a new zone will become so and every subsequent HR92 you add to that zone will reference that first unit to determine whether it should open or close its valve. You could be seeing the temperature in another part of the room or since you are apparently still in the experimental phase even a different room all together or the cabinet where you keep the units you did not mount yet.

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                        • phier
                          Automated Home Jr Member
                          • Oct 2019
                          • 18

                          #27
                          Originally posted by DanD View Post
                          The only comments I can add are that my experiences with the use of the Evohome controller as a room temperature sensor have been positive. You also have the option to use the temperature sensors within the HR92s themselves which also works well for me and is more convenient than the use of the controller as they are obviously located within each zone. The results that you are observing may possibly be that the Evohome controller is less sensitive to rapid changes in temperature as it is intended to smoothly control the temperature in a room and it might be smoothing out rapid changes in temperature, but this is only a guess. If the controller is continually reporting a lower or higher temperature than you feel is accurate then you can also use the 'internal offset' feature which allows you to correct for this.
                          I dont want to use temp sensors within the HR92s because temp around these valves is different as reference temp in the room where controler is placed. Well less sensitive within one hour? both thermomethers shows 23-23.5C for about 2 hours ... evo controller still 22, target temp 22 and now the boiler is running ... so thats strange... no rapid chances of tempreature in room... no window opening etc.. no freezing outside. Yes I saw that offset but its not possible to set it correcly because lower tems 20-21 are showed properly on contoller but everything over 22> is not showed correctly. I was thinking to but wall thermometers which is honeywell selling and measure temp / control temp via these meters... linked with controller unit.

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                          • phier
                            Automated Home Jr Member
                            • Oct 2019
                            • 18

                            #28
                            Originally posted by gordonb3 View Post
                            Are you sure that you are measuring what you think you are measuring? While it is possible to configure the controller to be the temperature sensor for the zone where it is (always) in, the default is that the first HR92 you define as part of a new zone will become so and every subsequent HR92 you add to that zone will reference that first unit to determine whether it should open or close its valve. You could be seeing the temperature in another part of the room or since you are apparently still in the experimental phase even a different room all together or the cabinet where you keep the units you did not mount yet.
                            Hello,
                            yeah i explicitly changed that inside settings that controller has to act as a tempreature sensor instead of HR92s. Righ now my config is one controller, 2 valves in one room, ie one zone. And its showing weird tempreatures. no clue. But 1.5C difference on controller compare to 2 external thermometers located 5cm away from controller is crazy...

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                            • phier
                              Automated Home Jr Member
                              • Oct 2019
                              • 18

                              #29
                              Ok to be more precise ...I have Electric boiler but some low end ... http://www.augur-kovo.cz/Electrother...ctric-boiler-b ... more sophisticated device might be for example this one


                              I was told that also Flowrate / pressure are important .. and if not set-up properly no Zone regulation will work correctly...

                              So many confusion here...

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                              • gordonb3
                                Automated Home Ninja
                                • Dec 2016
                                • 273

                                #30
                                Originally posted by phier View Post
                                Ok to be more precise ...I have Electric boiler but some low end ... http://www.augur-kovo.cz/Electrother...ctric-boiler-b ... more sophisticated device might be for example this one


                                I was told that also Flowrate / pressure are important .. and if not set-up properly no Zone regulation will work correctly...

                                So many confusion here...
                                And the boiler makes up the whole system? You do not have the storage tank as shown in the diagram on page 48 of the second document?

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