A sort of hack to use for trying a pseudo Eco per zone is to play with the Cold Weather boost feature. And set the rooms you want Ecoed to not using the Cold Weather boost. But it's rather hit and miss.
A sort of hack to use for trying a pseudo Eco per zone is to play with the Cold Weather boost feature. And set the rooms you want Ecoed to not using the Cold Weather boost. But it's rather hit and miss.
Thanks for the suggestion but I am generally a KISS person and want simple basic function, not added complication. Even so my family and friends accuse me of being a gadget freak and have hardly moved on from the days of a time clock and single room thermostat. The thought or trying to explain to them how to properly operate EvoHome is too painful to contemplate. I am constantly under pressure to reduce the amount of home automation so my challenge is to make EvoHome appear very simple to operate and understand, Likewise the heat pump/air con, the solar, smart TV, Alexa and Philips Hue etc. etc. I am sure they would like to replace it all with a series of ON/OFF switches.
I am much the same. The easiest way to explain to my folks was, point at the TRV controller and say "Use that as your temperature knob". Expect that now with the latest firmware, my technique no longer works when we have the Heating Off.
Unfortunately I had to disable the TRV control due to inquisitive grandchildren. At least with EvoHome you are not totally dependent on remote severs. My solar inverter manufacturer has recently announced that they have withdrawn from the market and product support is no longer available. The company is still manufacturing other equipment and it’s web servers are still working but I do not know for how long.
I have received the following from Resideo support:
I'll update when I get anything else.Sir I will escalate the case to see how can this be fixed.
Thank you for your understanding.
Yes, this is a known bug of the new firmware. I noticed it and pointed it out to the Honeywell guys during the beta period in this post:
https://www.automatedhome.co.uk/vbul...ll=1#post42998
Unfortunately if you read a bit further through the thread the response was that it was too late to fix it for the public release of the firmware and they are aware of the issue. (Although I'm not convinced they accept that it's a serious issue)
https://www.automatedhome.co.uk/vbul...ll=1#post43028
In short, when Eco/Boost is turned on, any set point override you make will have the eco/boost offset applied on top of that. So if you have Eco/Boost set to -3C and you try to set a zone to 22C it would actually set it to 19C.
It's even worse if you make the override directly on an HR92 as it will initially go to the set point you requested then a few minutes later will have the Eco/Boost offset applied. Or if you make a temperature adjustment on a DTS92, as you are pressing the button to raise or lower the temperature it will keep jumping by the amount of your offset making it near on impossible to adjust the temperature of a zone with a DTS92 when Eco/Boost is enabled with a large offset.
I'm a bit disappointed a bug this serious slipped through in an otherwise very solid release, especially when the firmware had a lot of public beta testing and I reported the issue many months before the final public release but there you go...
As a workaround you need to compensate for the Eco/Boost offset when making manual overrides. So if Eco/Boost is configured to -3C and you want a manual override of 20C, set your manual override to 23C not 20C and it will be 20C after it has subtracted the Eco/Boost offset.
You're best to do this via the control panel or phone app rather than using the controls on an HR92 or DTS92.
Last edited by DBMandrake; 26th April 2021 at 02:21 PM.
I have just received the following from Resideo support:
I'm not exactly sure what that means as the EvoTouch version number is still 02.00.19.33Thank you for your patience.
My colleagues from the technical team cleared the errors.
If the same issue happens please provide us:
TCC account
MAC ID and CRC code (photo)
some screenshots with the steps attached
phone model
OS version and app version
I've just reactivated Eco mode and the behaviour is exactly the same as it was before - app overrides are reduced by the Eco setting and the DTS92 is unusable.
I'll get back to support and refer them to the post linked above!
Ok, I have received the latest firmware and, after disconnecting and reconnecting to wifi, I can now see a smart settings menu and hot water priority setting. What does not appear to have changed is the eco mode, which is the one feature I want.
I am sure I am missing something and have looked back through the forum but not found anything. Can anyone tell me how to access the new eco mode features? Many thanks.
Last edited by SteveP; 29th April 2021 at 11:13 PM.