Heating Panel stops working

[chrisv_s 1]

Hi,

 

I am running version 4.090 and use the Heating Panel to trigger a Fibaro Relay via the Linked Devices Panel.  The relay turns the Central Heating on.  This set up has been working for 2+ years since I bought Home Centre 2 but all of a sudden has stopped working.  If I restart HC2, it will work for a bit (not sure exact length of time) but then stops working again which usually results in me waking up to a cold house. 

 

So far I have tried:

 

> Deleting the Heating Zone and creating it again

> Deleting the Linked Device and creating it again

> Using the manual temperature setting

 

None of the above have made a different.  A restart is the only thing that solves the problem (for a short period of time).

 

Can anyone suggest what else I can try or if this is a known bug that will be resolved?

 

Chris

Edited September 25, 2016 by chrisv_s

[reelWM 0]

Strange behaviour here - with 4.090 only a part of the heating Panel seems to stop working. With the 6 Danfos thermostates, I am not sure, if they work correctly (I switched on my heating only one day ago).

For the floor heating, I use two double Fibaro Switches to control the four floor heating circles. Two circles, connected to the same Fibaro switch work fine, the other two circles, connected to the second switch do not work at all.

I tried to identify the the difference between the two switches, but so far without success.

Even deleting and recreating the two affected heating zones did not succeed. Same with softconfiguring, deleting the Switch and adding it again.

The update to 4.100 changed nothing - still only two of four heating circles work as expected.

 

Does anyone have an idea, what happened here?

 

Regards,

reelWM  

Edited October 5, 2016 by reelWM

[Viper563 0]

Hi

Yes I'm having the same issue, just upgraded to 4.092 just in case this made a difference, but still does not work. I'm using a Horstmann thermostat and boiler switch, its been fine for over 2 years, but have tried all the above, but no good

 

Well I'm on version 4.1, I have switched off the heating panel and I'm using scenes, but even these seem very hit and miss, still no log showing in the event panel, I'm going back to my old boiler timer switch, I came in today to find the house hot, it seems the heating has been on all day.

[jamwoirs 2]

Also upgraded to 4.1 and heating panel did not work. I deleted all heating programs and started from scratch and it worked for about 2 days.

I have struggled with Fibaro heating panel ever since I got it 2 years ago, with some periods of success but overall it has proved both a source of excessive fiddling and time loss and inefficient heating.

It is time to look for an alternative controller which will work with our typical set up, being danfoss valves and horstman type thermostat and switch.

 

Has anyone looked at Heat genius? or any other suggestions?

[BTKL 0]

On 10/4/2016 at 10:23 AM, gromtron said:

As you see I attached a Virtual device to my post. This VD can be imported in every room you would like to heat. After that you have actually to adjust only two ids - one for the switch controlling your heating and one for the temperature sensor.

 

Your solution is probably ok as well. The only disadvantage I can see is that with scenes you don't have the possibility to adjust the temperature using buttons or mobile devices, but probably you don't have to do so often anyway.

 

Notice: The VD attached does not discriminate between mon-fri and sat-sun, but can be easily enhanced to do so.

 

Hi Gromtron. This is working great. Only thing is the delay from changing the temp until it actually changes, but no problem. My question, since I'm new to virtual devices and lua. Could you explain how you use icons-ids?

 

if(currentMode == "Auto")then
  fibaro:call(selfId, "setProperty", "currentIcon", 597)
  fibaro:call(selfId, "setProperty", "ui.ModeLabel.value", "Manual")
else
  fibaro:call(selfId, "setProperty", "currentIcon", 596)
  fibaro:call(selfId, "setProperty", "ui.ModeLabel.value", "Auto")
end

[gromtron 1]

Hi BTKL. Every icon intalled on the HC2 has its own id. Some icons are preinstalled by fibaro, while other icons can be uploaded by you. If you add an icon it becomes an id assigned. You can see all the icon ids if you type the following url into your browser: http://<IP OF YOUR HC2>/docs/#!/icons/getIcons and hit the "Try it" button. Alternatively you can download the

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, which more convenient. That's it. After you know the id if the icons you would like to use as symbol, change "597" and "596" to your corresponding ids.

 

Have fun

[Gullfrode 1]

On 28.9.2016 at 10:16 PM, gromtron said:

Here we go... Quick and dirty... You will have to set some variables (ids, icons) as needed. And please don't blame for possible bugs: As I said, it's just a quick hack.

 

Hope, it helps.

 

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I have a room with multiple heating devices, that I can not get the VD to work .

in my other rooms with one device it works like a charm.

My main loop look like this:

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Any idea what is wrong?

 Debug shows no errors, just time and heating on/off

[gromtron 1]

Hi Gullfrode,

 

I'm not a LUA expert, but I don't think that the line

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can work. I think, you can assign only one Id to the variable. You need as many VDs per room as you have heating devices in this room. In every VD assign the same temperature id, but different heating actor ids.

 

You could also make the variable heatingDevices an array and then loop through it calling

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However you will lose the possibility to adjust the temperature on per-device basis.

 

If you decide to make it an array, change

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to

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and

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to
 

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and the same for

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Edited November 14, 2016 by gromtron

[Gullfrode 1]

I will give it a try, thanks for great workaround, it is only in my living-room that I have more than one device.  Lets hope they fix the heating panel, it's primitive but have worked well. Combined with a scene who sets the room to holiday-mode when the window/door have been open, it's been satisfying for my use. 

[hoomee 22]

On 30/9/2016 at 1:10 PM, lucax said:

Hi 

did someone check if the 4.100 fix the issue? I know is not mentioned in the changelog, still the hope is the last to die...

 

Ciao

 

 

4.100 did not fix heating panel. It has worked fine on 4.056 last winter, but this year on 4.100 it hasn't change any setting on any of my 6 danfos thermostats. When I change the value manually ("Manual Mode" in Heating Panel) they react within (up to) few minutes and start warming up. Heating panel however does change absolutely nothing.

[gobbli 10]

come on fibaro, bring us a fix for the problem.

[hoomee 22]

On 15/11/2016 at 8:49 PM, hoomee said:

 

4.100 did not fix heating panel. (...)

 

Well, what seems to have helped in my case was removing all zones and settings from heating panel i.e. deleting all heating settings (but without removing the thermostats from HC2) and creating all zones and temperature settings from scratch. It seems to work fine now for about 24 hours. Fingers crossed it will continue.

So it seems the problem is perhaps not bound to 4.100, not in my case.

[T.Konopka 8]

14 godzin temu, hoomee napisał:

 

Well, what seems to have helped in my case was removing all zones and settings from heating panel i.e. deleting all heating settings (but without removing the thermostats from HC2) and creating all zones and temperature settings from scratch. It seems to work fine now for about 24 hours.

Hello,

 

It seems that it works in many cases. Please, pay attention to the zones and linked devices to the panels.

I am aware that this should not be happening, but it is possible that a simple device included in heating panel that did not respond properly to a command causes the issue.

[dannykay 2]

Seems I am having the same issue with the heating panel. its very erratic, sometimes it works and other times it fails to start the heating schedule. I am on 4.10

[virgojavier 0]

Same here, moved to 4.1 and my Heating panel is not working at all...