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Close to giving up, but I think we're almost fixed

MartyS — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 02:37:04 GMT

Once the forum functionality is finally fixed, I'm inclined not to touch things for a VERY long time.

But the next time an upgrade or change is needed, if anyone has a suggestion for an alternative forum software provider, I'm all ears!

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Neutral free smart light switches

Kovacs — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:59:43 GMT

Hi, am in the market for some neutral free UK friendly light switches that would be similar to the Sonoff ones such as these:

TX T3 UK

Sonoff themselves don't appear to have any at this time. The closest I can find are some similar looking ones from Smartwise/eWelink but which aren't yet available, eg:

Smartwise T4

My main criteria are:

Black front.
Touch sensitive
Neutral free
Wifi enabled

Ideally something I can control from the eWelink app although I could consider the Smartthings app at a push (but would prefer not to have to go down the route of having a hub).

My home network/wifi has mutiple acccess points/mesh combined with a dedicated IoT SSID so not too concerned about Wifi performance.

Aside from the Smartwise which isn't yet available, does anybody have any good experiences with a similar product that they would recommend? I briefly considered Ener-J but if their Trustpilot reviews are anything to go by, the quality isn't fabulous and if I'm going to replace perfectly working physical wall switches it needs to be with something that's robust.

New EvoControl demo video

philchillbill — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:18:22 GMT

It's been quite a while since a video of EvoControl's capabilities was posted so here's an update that both highlights some of the new features and reflects UI changes in the past 12 months:

https://vimeo.com/924690145?share=copy

Working Forum - Reply to G4RHL

FullBore — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:54:28 GMT

I can't help much.

Have a loo at:-

https://www.automatedhome.co.uk/vbul...ral-Discussion

Fingers crossed.....

Working forum

G4RHL — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 09:04:46 GMT

Anybody know when the forum will get going again?

HR92 Comms Fault/Binding Issue?

richk — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:38:40 GMT

Hi,

So I have a Comms Actuator fault appearing on the evohome controller following some reconfiguration I recently did to a zone. I had a zone called �Kids Zone� which was made up of 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. Each room had one radiator and one HR92. I then reconfigured one of the bedroom into an office so needed a new heating schedule for the office. I unbound the HR92 from the Kids Zone and this procedure worked well. I then created a new zone on the Evohome controller called Office and bound the HR92 to this zone. This process worked (as far as I could tell) and is working independently now from Kids Zone. However I keep getting a Comms fault (daily) on the Office zone and am not sure what I�ve missed in the above process or how to resolve it. The lead HR92 in the Kids Zone was not this HR92.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Richard

EvoControl and TCC fault-states/log

philchillbill — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 14:58:21 GMT

I see several people happily using the widget or viewing the skill's dashboard for days in succession despite 5-7 faults (usually comms loss, low battery) being continually reported by TCC. Apparently, the ⚠️ yellow warning triangles are not enough to get some people to check their fault log. Even tapping the widget will show what the error is but nobody does that either.

From now on, the widget will refuse to show your dashboard and instead show an error message if you have >4 faults in the log. Similarly, the 'full' skill experience will utter a spoken warning upon launch.

I'd say any Evohome system with that many faults is bordering on unusable. Of course with EvoControl being available, people use the Evotouch and the TCC app less and less, so they're not noticing the faults on their panels... 😊

Forum update (responding to FullBore)

MartyS — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 07:06:59 GMT

Yep, it's taking far too long.

I know you're frustrated.

Here's the current situation:

Article:

https://automatedhome.co.uk/announce...w-podcast.html

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZneNJ6Z8pw