Iāve just noticed something Iāve not seen before and I have a question.
I have just found that one of the climate presets is āAdvance Scheduleā. I would ideally like to be able to use this against 4 TRVs/Thermostats at once as a button or similar. I have my ground floor set to go from 17 to 21 at 8am, but my sometimes we get up before 8am so advancing the ground floor in one go would be ideal.
Is there a way I can do this? Or could an āAdvance Allā button be added?
Best way is to create a script that calls the climate.set_preset_mode and set preset to Advance Schedule on all your rooms and then use a button to call script.
Awesome! I always forget services. All working and under Alexa voice control. No more scrabbling around at 6am with a crying daughter to warm up the house.
I did see some error messages for a while after setting up the API, but I was able to select the gas and electricity entities pretty soon after - the errors and lack of data stayed till the next day.
If you are still having issues do you want to PM me your config and I can compare to mine? Donāt post them here as I think this Geo stuff is getting a bit off topic.
If someone can give it to me straight, I wanted to install the Drayton wiser system in the house (via plumper) and wanted to connect it to home assistant like my cameras currently (quite proud of myself for doing that part)
Can this system be fully offline? aka send signals locally to the local controller? or is it kinda like Honeywell evohome where you can fully integrate but requires their webapp to receive to be connected and commands to be sent?
Yes I said before, providing your local internet is up and running then Home Assistant (With our integration) will work fine with the Wiser Hub even if your WAN connection (ie BT/Virgin) is down. There are some caveats here, I have noticed that if virgin is down then sometimes their router doesnāt work properly for local connections,. I solved this by putting the wiser hub on a different router I have frontending the virgin router with routing and dhcp servicesā¦
I also believe (not conclusively tested but observed) that even if your local internet connection is down (router died, virgin network down etc), then the wiser TRVs appears to continue to communicate with the heathub and work as per schedule- you obviously cant access the heathub as your local network is down.
Im sure this is because it uses Zigbee and not WIFI/Internetā¦ The caveat here is that this is what Iāve noticed but ive not explicitly tested it and obviously I dont work for Wiser Drayton
Is there entity that will turn the screen on for the wiser thermostat. Would love to be able to see the screen when I open the front door and come in to see what the current temperature/target is
I am generally very happy with the Drayton Wiser system - I have a number of iTRVs in addition to the hub and roomstat. As far as I can tell, it can be used independantly of the internet. The Wiser smartphone app communicates directly with the hub for the key functions (setting the schedules and temperatures). Some functions are dependant on an internet connection - the eco function that adjusts the heating based on the external temperature, and the Insights function that provides reports on your energy use are two examples that I can think of now.
On the downside, the iTRV assessment of room temperature is not very accurate - in my home, rooms with only iTRVs in them are actually about 2C colder. The workaround is to shift the target temperature up by 2C - would be better if Wiser allowed calibration or a manual offset.
I previously used Nest and Wiser is much better (can adjust room by room) and more interesting (lots of graphs and this integration!). I wonder if anyone else here is familiar with alternatives such as Hive or Tado?
Having to retrieve the Geo access token regularly through code makes it a bit fiddly, but looks like they are taking security seriously. Glad that you managed to get it working!
Stupid question warning applies, but where in HA might I find this? The integration stopped working yesterday and I believe that the token issue is the reason.