Hi All
I fairly recently bought a pair of ADAX wifi/bluetooth heaters for my kids play room with the idea that I can control them from my HA system.
When I first installed them I was really pleased but pretty quickly I started to struggle with the HA integration taking sometimes 5 mins to respond to a command to either turn on or increase the heat. It has got so bad that my automation are hit and miss. Most of the time the heating events fire but the heaters don’t respond and you have to execute them a few times to eventually fire. HA often times out to any thermostat controls return to their original values…
So… To combat this I though perhaps it would be time to move to the local API instead of using the cloud API. It actually turned out to be a bit of work to move them to local API control, mainly because my HA servers BT would not reach the room they are in so I have to power everything off and move the server just so I can talk to the rads to configure them…
(In case you are unfamiliar, you have to add them to your home wifi network using BT to start with)…
After a few attempts I managed to get them both back in to HA and again… To start with them seem great and much more responsive (basically instant)…
Now comes a new problem…!
Just as I thought I was out of the woods I now am finding that after a period of time (don’t think there is an exact time) HA seems to lose connection to the rads… I am on a mesh network and there is a wifi node in that room and I don’t “think” it is the wifi but not really got a full way to test that. (no other device in that room loses connection)…
The only way I can solve this is to power them off… wait… power on and reinitialize the device in HA which seems to get them back for another few hours…
Right now I have2 options that are both pretty lame… The cloud API is slow (5 mins +) or simply just doesn’t respond… OR… THe local API which is fast but loses connection after X time…
Anyway got any ideas or had experience with ADAX that could help?