Just purchased one of these to experiement with radior control.
I have mounted it on the radiator and included it to my Vera Lite.
If I change the temp on the physical thermostat itself then it updates and sends the same update to the Vera. If however I change the temp set point in the Vera interface (web or m mobile app) it does not change the temperature on the thermostat. I get a message saying waiting for wake up, but nothing ever happens no matter how long I wait.
Are there some settings I need to change. I cant see any reference to this in the supplied user manual.
You can play with wakeup time and poll time. AFAIR default wakeup is set to 30 minutes, default poll is 3 hours.
Usually within half hour or so the thermostat is updated.
Check if the thermostat is not too far from your Vera, which can cause problem with communication.
Older series of Danfoss heads had some issues (going into so called “panic” mode), I don’t know if this might be an issue for you.
If you plan to build a system of radiator controlling thermostats, from my experience Eurotronic behaves better, although they are bulky compared to Danfoss. The advantage is for example temp. readings transmitted to the controller, which Danfoss heads are lacking.
There are also Devolo/POPP thermostats on the market, clones of the newer release of Danfoss, modified to report temperature to the controller, same feature that Eurotronic have.
I purchased this one to experiment to see what thy are like.
The device I have is 014G0013. Is this the latest model?
When I checked my settings I have the following:
automatically configure: “use default behavior” do I select ye or no. what does the effect of each do?
wake up interval: 1800 seconds
poll interval: 10800 seconds
Should I change these settings?
whats the difference between poll and wake up?
It seems that you have newer (latest?) version.
For settings:
Automatically configure - I don’t know in details, it has to be set to “yes” if you have any associations to other devices. Generally you don’t need to touch it.
Wake up interwal - this is the period how often your device is “waking up” which means being active and able to report data to the controller (in between the device goes to “sleep” which means that it is not establishing active communication to the controller). The less value you set here, the more often device will be ready for communicating with the controller (more frequent updates), but at expense of battery power consumption.
Polling is a vale for determining how often controller should “ask” a device to report its status. For battery operating devices the controller polls it and waits till it will be in wake-up mode to gather data from it.
Current settings (1800s = 30m for wake up and 10800s = 3h for polling) mean, that the device is able to receive and process any commands from the controller in 30m periods (so in worst case if you change temperature, you should wait 30m before device will adjust to it). At that time device status will be updated to the controller.
In other cases controller will update device status each 3h (poll period) +/- 30m (wakeup period).
For testing purposes, you may want to shorten the wakeup period (minimum for Danfoss is 5 minutes = 150s, if I remember correctly), to see if device reacts to commands from the controller. Remember that after changing this setting you have to wait untill next wake-up (according to previous schedule) to make them processed.
I don’t advise to leave it like that for long, as it will drain your batteries faster.
As for polling I don’t see much use of this parameter in Danfoss case. It doesn’t report data like temperature to the controller and if you request change of its settings, data are updated during nearest wakeup.
I can’t say how long the batteries work as I installed radiator thermostats during last half of year, and did it by steps.
Using batteries coming with the device isn’t helpful here as you don’t know how old are they and what is their capacity.
Usage may also vary depending on how often you change temperature and how far is from the controller.
I didn’t try rechargeables, and I’m not sure if this is a good idea since they have slightly different voltage (1.2V instead of 1.5V) and can give yo false reports about their condition.
I have one device which is broken (it reports E1 error frequently) for which I tried attaching it to AC/DC 3V power adapter and except the mentioned error, it works correctly.
For changing the wakeup time, I’ve asked similar question in the past (about polling rate), and according to the replies it should be possible at least for some devices. I abandoned investigating it as I found other solution for my need.
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