veralite to horstmann ASR2-ZW communication

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A total newbie here.
I have my veralite setup to control my boiler-controller as a simple timer unit at present, ie switching my ASR2-ZW relays on/off at preset times.
The problem is that if the ASR2-ZW boiler control relay does not received a signal from vera every 60minutes it shuts down in failsafe mode. Therefore if i want my heating to come-on for more than one hour i have a problem.

How can i keep my ASR2-ZW boiler (relay) controller “awake” so the system keeps running?

thanks

2

Did you work out a solution. I have just installed ASR2 ZW and am experiencing the same problem.

3

Perhaps you can set up a scene to run every 30 minutes or so, just to send the correct value (on or off) to the Horstmann unit. Depending on what you want the boiler to do, you cold set up he scene to simply copy the on/off value of a virtual switch to the Horstmann, and let your other scenes/triggers control the virtual switch instead of the Horstmann

4

Yes, that is what I have done. I have scenes for hot water on and central heating on and have scheduled them every hour of the day. Then I just tick when I want to switch on the hw or ch and tick every hour I want it to stay on. It actually makes the control very versatile. Thanks for the input

5

Hi guys I am about to purchase the ASR2-ZW myself and was wondering if you guys have any problems controlling the heating and hot water independently via a VeraLite?

thanks

6

Hot Water and Central Heating are completely independent. Note that Vera needs to send an on command every hour or the unit will turn off as detailed in the above post.

7

Hi,

What does that mean exactly?
And how do you recover it from this ‘fail safe mode’?

8

This is an old topic now, but in case you stumbled across this through a search this is how i did it: http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,16859.msg129947.html#msg129947

Works well.

9

here is the code i used:

-- device#14 Hot water
local HVACstatus = luup.variable_get("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1", "ModeStatus", 14)
if (HVACstatus == "HeatOn") then
	luup.call_action("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1", "SetModeTarget", {NewModeTarget = "HeatOn"}, 14)
elseif  (HVACstatus == "Off") then
	luup.call_action("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1", "SetModeTarget", {NewModeTarget = "Off"}, 14)
else
-- error
end

-- device#15 Heating
local HVACstatus = luup.variable_get("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1", "ModeStatus", 15)
if (HVACstatus == "HeatOn") then
	luup.call_action("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1", "SetModeTarget", {NewModeTarget = "HeatOn"}, 15)
elseif (HVACstatus == "Off") then
	luup.call_action("urn:upnp-org:serviceId:HVAC_UserOperatingMode1", "SetModeTarget", {NewModeTarget = "Off"}, 15)
else
-- error
end
10

I know this is a very old thread but having being using this device successfully for the best part of 4 years i woke today to find the device flashing yellow LED to indicate it had not been configured.
I’ve had issues recently with devices “falling” off my network and need re-including. On this occasion i had to send the “configure now” instruction from vera to get it back up and running.
I must say that i am losing confidence in the whole reliability of all this stuff. I don’t have much z-wave home automation stuff, thankfully, but all that i do have has encountered issues at some point. There a lot to be said for hard-wiring and cables!
I’ve put a follow up here:
[url=http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,35907.0.html]http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,35907.0.html[/url]