Fibaror Radiator many questions

[Splinter 0]

Hello


Who knows who with the radiator?

Here is the Fibaror radiator advertised really professional.

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Unfortunately, there is no guide on how to fully use the radiator with all its capabilities.

1)

The FIBARO Heat Controller scans the room environment at the beginning and learns from the collected information. So he can react to the appropriate conditions. Intelligent heating management is provided by specially developed algorithms.

Then there are so great Dineg like:

18 min to listen for temperature x ...

How can I retrieve this information?

2)

Work at a specific place and time *

There are rooms that you do not necessarily use every day: a guest room, the gym or the office. Thanks to the adjustment operating mode, the FIBARO Heat Controller lowers the temperatures in selected rooms, resulting in energy savings. As soon as the FIBARO Motion Sensor detects a movement in a room, the temperature is brought to an optimal level; a really advanced solution.

Does this happen automatically?

Just a motion in the room and the heating regulates high without the heating plan being considered?

3)

Precise temperature measurement

The radiator thermostat can use an additional built-in temperature sensor4. You can decide for yourself where the measurement should be performed. In this way, excessive or insufficient heating can be avoided. The temperature should always be perfect in the right place!

Does that mean that if the room say I have 20 degrees and I have set a temperature of 19 degrees in the heating plan, the heater is not gra s first?

4)

Always ready for your voice command

Do not you feel like getting up from the couch or reaching for your cell phone? Control the temperature with your voice! This convenient feature is accessible both in the FIBARO system and on the HomeKit platform or via a different voice interface.

Can someone tell me how Alexa can control the heating? Did I miss something that happens all at once?

You get room temperatures announced and can set the heating by Sparche to the desired room temperature?

5)

Automatic calibration

The FIBARO thermostatic head is easy to install, self-calibrate, and easy to control for proper connection. To achieve precise control precision of the water flow, the FIBARO head controls the distance and adjusts it to the working area of the needle. This will allow you to be sure that the installation has been carried out correctly and that the system can be put into operation without any problems.

Where can I find this function?



Many Thanks.

[marcwau 30]

First of all, the public information provided by Fibaro on the actual algorithms or what they do and not do in the current firmware (version v4.4) is non-existent.

So we can only observe what happens. 

 

1. The scanning of the room. The marketing material says it happens, I doubt that it does. Maybe the electronics are there to implement it some day, but in the current version, I do not see any sign of it.

 

42 minutes ago, Splinter said:

How can I retrieve this information?

 

You can't. It's not made available. Or it's not there (yet) anyway.

 

2. At specific time and place. Yes, this works. You define different heating zones via the Heating Panel of the HC2, and a week schedule for each zone. A zone can be one room or several rooms.

The schedule is transmitted to the heat controllers in that zone, so once that happens, it does not need the HC2 to stick to the schedule.

 

50 minutes ago, Splinter said:

as the FIBARO Motion Sensor detects a movement in a room, the temperature is brought to an optimal level; a really advanced solution.
Doe that happen automatically?

 

Entering a room will not do anything to the heat controller, unless you combine it with some Motion Sensor, as they specify in the marketing material. You could then have a scene to raise the setting of the HC, but obviously it takes time for a room to heat up. So when you enter a room that is 18 degrees, the setting can change, but it could take an hour or more before it's at 21 degrees. 

 

3. Temperature measurement. The extra sensor, which communicates to the HC via Bluetooth, is a good thing. It doesn't have the disadvantage of being influenced by the radiator heating up.

The HC will not open if the sensor measures a temperature higher than the setting in the schedule. 

But note that the control is not just based on the external sensor, it relies on the internal sensor and on the external sensor (if you decided to install one).

 

4. Voice command. Yes, it does work with Alexa.

You can say things like "Raise the [name of thermostat] with 2 degrees" or "Set [name of thermostat] to 22 degrees".

 

5. Automatic calibration. It does that 10 minutes after you install it on the radiator valve, and from then on, once a week.

If the calibration fails, you get a message in the web client.

If you want to force a calibration, you can do that by clicking the button of the HC when you see the white ring in the menu. That procedure is explained in the manual.

 

Hope this helps.

[Splinter 0]

Thank you for Help.

 

 

[Sjekke 87]

Is it true you can't install the thermostat vertically?

Edited November 25, 2018 by Sjekke

[marcwau 30]

10 hours ago, Sjekke said:

Is it true you can't install the thermostat vertically?

 

Well, according to Fibaro, it's not supported in the current firmware version.

But I have three FGT's mounted vertically on convector panels in a floor duct. This was not by choice, but it was the only way to mount them due to limited space; they are mounted with the LED ring upwards.

They seem to do their job so far. 

Anyhow, I wouldn't do it if there is any way to avoid it, until Fibaro officially endorses it in a new firmware version.