A recente introdução do Drayton Wiser de Schneider Electric foi o visitante automático Mark Boyle para morder a bala, além de montar uma casa sábia Sistema de gerenciamento de aquecimento.
Na primeira parte de sua avaliação, ele compartilha os requisitos que o levam a selecionar o Drayton Wiser, além de nos levar com o procedimento de instalação…
Por que exigimos controles de aquecimento sábio?
Nós on -line em um bangalô dos anos 70 que reformamos e prolongamos em 2008. Ao instalar um novo sistema de aquecimento, dividimos o aquecimento em três zonas, uma para o fim de vida e uma para o final da casa. A terceira zona era para aquecimento de água. Isso nos forneceu um nível de gerenciamento em torno de áreas de aquecimento da casa com base em padrões de profissão. A fonte quente era uma caldeira a óleo que foi substituída por uma caldeira de pellets de madeira de biomassa em fevereiro de 2016.
Imagem: WarmFlow WP18 6-18kW Modula completamente a caldeira de madeira com 3 válvulas de zona visíveis.
O sistema foi gerenciado por um programador de zona Horstmann H47XL 4 encontrado no espaço da utilidade que permitiu 3 períodos de ’em’ durante 7 dias. A 4ª zona foi utilizada como um relógio de tempo para uma variedade de fogão, isso é independente do sistema de aquecimento.
A zona viva e a zona do quarto tinham 2 termostatos Horstmann DRT1, bem como a zona de água quente, possui um termostato de cilindro.
Imagem: O programador tradicional de 4 zonas com avanço, além de aumentar os botões para cada zona.
Dentro de cada zona estão as qualidades de aquecimento extremamente exclusivas das diferentes salas, algumas são construídas para os requisitos de isolamento de construção de 2008, que alguns são dos anos 70. Alguns têm uma grande área de vidro, bem como podem passar de um dia ensolarado a frio à noite mais rápido do que outros quartos. Conseguir um equilíbrio de temperatura consistentemente confortável entre os espaços é impossível, com apenas duas zonas de aquecimento e TRV tradicionais.
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Drayton Wiser Wise Termostato Aquecimento Gerencie apenas o aquecimento – funciona com Amazon Alexa, Google House e IFTTT
O conjunto inclui hubR quente, bem como termostato espacial sábio, que você pode receber do seu telefone
Este conjunto de 1 canal é apropriado para caldeiras combinadas
O Hubr de aquecimento se encaixa diretamente no seu relógio comum do Reino Unido para facilitar a instalação
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Estávamos dando uma olhada nos controles de aquecimento sábio por vários anos. Fomos inspirados por vários elementos, bem como esses acabaram sendo os requisitos de escolha para um novo sistema:
Critério de seleção
Solução do sistema
A capacidade de adaptar a rotina de aquecimento além dos três períodos possibilitados pelo programador existente à medida que as práticas de profissão mudaram. O Wiser permite 8 pontos de ajuste todos os dias, adaptado exclusivamente todos os dias, se necessário. Os pontos de ajuste podem ser definidos como níveis de temperatura preferidos ou desativados.
Nos eventos em que alguém desejava um espaço mais quente, teria que ir ao programador para “aumentar” o aquecimento, além de inspecionar o termostato para garantir que ele estava exigindo calor. dispositivos móveis.
A caldeira de pellets de madeira leva muito mais tempo para realizar sua produção quente máxima em comparação com a caldeira anterior, resultando na programação de um período de aquecimento no cronograma de aquecimento. O sistema mais sábio aprende o tempo necessário para atingir a temperatura definida e também pode compensar o Tempo de aquecimento da caldeira.
O novo sistema deve ser uma diminuição na substituição do sistema existente, com muito pouca reforma da fiação existente e dos controles. O sistema mais sábio veio com um Hubr quente de três canais, que em forma perfeita.
O sistema deve ser escalável e permitir o gerenciamento do aquecimento até um nível espacial para obter conforto extra e economia de eficácia. O sistema mais sábio pode caber até 32 gadgets em 16 zonas (salas). Isso pode ser uma mistura de termostatos espaciais e TRVs sábios.
O sistema precisa oferecer um ótimo retorno sobre o investimento. A despesa de três canais do conjunto de iniciantes £ 200, além de ninguém oferecer TRVs Wise por £ 35! A despesa geral do sistema para nossa configuração mais sábia seria de £ 760 em comparação com £ 1375 para um sistema rival equivalente.
Disparamos vários sistemas devido à sua incompatibilidade com a configuração existente, o nível de reengenharia necessário ou sua incapacidade de escalar a solução. Hesitamos na seleção de outros sistemas devido ao tamanho do investimento necessário ou à preocupação da capacidade dos produtores de apoiar produtos no futuro.
Nós quase tínhamos fornecido o conceito quandowe came across Drayton Wiser. having only introduced a few weeks earlier it seemed to satisfy all the demands for our choice criteria. As a result we purchased the 3 channel set for £199.99 as well as had it in our hands a couple of days later. single as well as double channel kits are offered together with radiator valves as well as stand alone thermostats.
Preço do produto
1 channel controller as well as thermostat£129.99
2 channel controller as well as thermostat£139.99
3 channel controller as well as 2 thermostats£199.99
1 channel controller, one thermostat as well as two wise TRV’s£189.99
2 channel controller, one thermostat as well as two wise TRV’s£199.99
1 space thermostat£79.99
1 wise TRV£34.99
Instalação
Picture: The contents of the kit.
The 3 channel set includes a 3 channel warm HubR controller, two space thermostats with mounts for repairing to a wall or means table tops. Batteries are included. The hub is fitted with an OpenTherm module as well as a common wall install bracket. You get an installation guide that offers different wiring configuration diagrams in addition to a homeowner quick begin guide.
A word of caution – mains voltages can kill, cause major injury or devices damage. Please guarantee you are competent, adequately experienced or qualified to work with mains voltage, if in question enlist the assist of a professional.
The very first stage of the installation process is to in shape the brains of the system, the warm HubR. This is fitted with a common wall connection plate that in numerous situations ought to be a directly switch enabling the individual to unscrew the old controller as well as install the new hub on the existing wall plate.
The Installation guide will show you the wiring connections so you can validate the connections. In our situation we were replacing a 4 zone controller with a 3 zone controller channel hub. The 4th zone on our conventional controller was managing the timing of an oil-fired variety cooker which is separate from our heating system, this will be configuration with a stand alone time controller after fitting the Drayton hub which will manage the 3 zones.
Diagram: A simplified schematic of our existing system.
Our existing traditional controller back plate has much more connections than the warm HubR so we had to eliminate it as well as in shape the plate supplied with the warm HubR. guarantee you isolate any type of electrical supply to avoid the danger of electrocution. This was a easy process. The changed online from the controller went to two space thermostats as well as a cylinder thermostat which switch the online supply to set off the boiler as well as the manage valves of each zone. The two space thermostats were eliminated as well as the wires linked in a junction box to close the circuit. The cylinder thermostat stays in location to manage the temperature of the hot water.
Picture – Left: previous wall plate as well as right: Wiser wall plate.
Once the electrical supply was reinstated the warm HubR sprung to life. Drayton have developed their app around the configuration process. No requirement to checked out directions or manuals, just download the app as well as it will walk you with the configuration process.
1. open the app as well as choose produce an account if this is your very first time setting up a hub.
2. The hub produces its own WiFi hotspot that you link to through your phone
3. now you can interact with the hub you tell it the quantity of each gadget to add to the system. In our preliminary configuration we will be adding two space thermostats
4. then you are instructed to add batteries to the thermostat. There is no remove markings on battery positioning such as a printed photo on the PCBA however look for the plus sign cutout on the battery get in touch with tab
5. when the thermostat has powered up the joining process can begin. This links the Hub as well as the Thermostat through the systems IEEE 801. 2.4Ghz network.
6. when joined to the network you designate a space to put the gadget in as well as map it to a channel on the hub. In our situation it was the zone 1 entrance hall – channel 1 as well as zone 2 bedroom hall – channel 3. This step is repeated for every device. We screwed one thermostat to the place of the previous version in the entrance hall. The siting of the bedroom hallway method thermostat had to be moved better to the hub to get a signal.
7. You then update the Hub’s WIFI with your regional LAN credentials as well as link it to your regional network.
8. The next step is to produce an account to enable remote gain access to of the system when outside the home. verify your email address as well as then add the account address.
9. That’s it completely operational. It’s a extremely simple process.
The Thermostats
The thermostats are similar in size as well as shape to conventional thermostats. The gadgets have a clean as well as crisp design. They do not have physical buttons however capacitive touch buttons. plus as well as minus boost as well as reduces the set point. Touching the circle will increase the heating, touching consistently will provide different increase durations. just below the circle there is a red LED behind an opaque window, this will flash if there is a problem.
The screen (a 2.4” colour display) shows the target temperature in the lower best corner, the actual temperature in the center as well as the humidity in the top left. top best screens the device’s battery level as well as the signal stamina of the connection to the warm HubR. If there is no signal you will see a red exclamation mark. When increasing the duration is shown in the middle of the screen.
The zone 1 entrance hall thermostat is 10m from the hub as well as only accomplished one bar on the signal stamina sign when at first linking to the hub. We were amazed by this as the product specification stated 30m in totally free air, although we comprehend this can be impacted by numerous factors. When we originally found the zone 2 bedroom hall thermostat it couldn’t get a signal as well as had to be transferred to within 12m of the hub. having seen ‘Mesh’ referred to in the product specification we had presumed that the system would that ability to discover a peer-to-peer connection back to the hub. After speaking with the practical technical support we learnt that while the wireless protocol utilized (a closed ZigBee system, as utilized by Philips Hue) supports fit together technology, the gadgets only link in a star configuration to save battery life. because we online in a bungalow the furthest gadget would certainly be outside the variety of the hub.
Range Extender
A plug-in variety extender is offered as well as we were sent one by technical Support. The addition of the variety extender has provided us the additional distance needed to enable us to find the bedroom hall thermostat 15m from the hub.
Unfortunately if we were to do a full Wiser application the furthest gadget from the hub would be 30m. Unless Drayton allow peer-to-peer networking on the plug-in variety extenders we will be not able to cover all our radiators with Wiser. because the variety extenders are mains powered peer-to-peer networking ought to be enabled as there would be no issue over battery life. This would enable us to roll out Wiser across the entire property.
Adding the variety extender is straightforward. press configuration on the hub up until it flashes, plug-in the extender as well as turn it on. The side button ought to stop flashing as well as turn solid when it has a connection. The gadget appears under ‘Other’ in the space as well as gadgets tab.
Suporte ao cliente
Drayton have supported their new product introduce with prolonged assist desk hours that are now staffed 7 days per week – +44 (0) 333 7000 622. They can likewise be emailed customer.care@draytoncontrols.co.uk. Emailed queries get an car reaction with a ticket number. We discovered both techniques of get in touch with offered quick as well as important feedback.
Using the App
The app is excellent at guiding you with the configuration process. when configuration you can see the temperature of your gadgets as well as the temperature they are set to on the house screen. You can tell the system if you are house or away. In away mode the system drops the set point of the thermostats. ideally the Drayton team have geofencing in their advancement roadmap.
From the house screen you can choose each thermostat as well as from there you can see the actual temperature of the thermostat. The actual set point is shown just below you can see the present set point. You can modification the set point by scrolling the temperatures along the bottom of the screen.
Tapping the clock will enable you to increase the time by then choosing the suitable duration. Taping the calendar will take you to the routine where you can edit the temperature you want to accomplish as well as when. The flame icon indicates the system is requiring heat.
You have a maximum of eight set points where you can define the temperature needed or turn the system off. When setting temperatures the length of the bar boosts as well as the colour modifications to suggest the temperature family member temperature. From the routine setting screen you can copy the routine across several days to save the effort of having to program each individually.
One problem we did note is when making a routine modification the app screen didn’t update up until we went to the house screen as well as back to the schedule. ideally a software application update will treatment this.
Going back to the primary menu, taping the gears takes you to the configuration options. going to the spaces as well as gadgets page shows you a listing of