Danfoss Thermostat
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| − | Pair the thermostat like normal. It will probably appear first as a thermostat with a red cog (meaning it's not configured), press the activate button on the thermostat to wake it up. Vera should then be able to configure it, and will change it from a thermostat to a 'generic i/o device'. This is because the Danfoss isn't really a thermostat. It doesn't have temperature set points, or a thermometer, or heat/cool modes. It's just a 2 mode switch (daylight mode and energy saving mode). | + | Pair the thermostat like normal. It will probably appear first as a thermostat with a red cog (meaning it's not configured), press the activate button on the thermostat repeatedly in rapid succession to wake it up. According to the documentation it should only require a double-click to wake up, and sometimes it does, but we've also seen thermostats that won't wakeup until you click the activate button 10 times very quickly. Vera should then be able to configure it, and will change it from a thermostat to a 'generic i/o device'. This is because the Danfoss isn't really a thermostat. It doesn't have temperature set points, or a thermometer, or heat/cool modes. It's just a 2 mode switch (daylight mode and energy saving mode). |
| − | When Vera shows the thermostat as a 'generic i/o' device, tell Vera what room it's in, click continue, and then click the '+' button next to it to set the desired wakeup interval and any other options. Note that the thermostat only wakes up periodically to accept commands. So when you press off or on, the command is queued until the next time the thermostat wakes up. You can reduce the wakeup interval so it wakeups or more often (click the + button on Vera's device page), but note that it will reduce battery time. When done, click 'save'. It will probably have a red cog again because every time you change something, Vera needs to re-configure it, but can only do that when you press the activate button. Again, press the activate button and confirm you get the green cog. | + | When Vera shows the thermostat as a 'generic i/o' device, tell Vera what room it's in, click continue, and then click the '+' button next to it to set the desired wakeup interval and any other options. Note that the thermostat only wakes up periodically to accept commands. So when you press off or on, the command is queued until the next time the thermostat wakes up. You can reduce the wakeup interval so it wakeups or more often (click the + button on Vera's device page), but note that it will reduce battery time. The minimum wakeup interval is 300 seconds (5 minutes). When done, click 'save'. It will probably have a red cog again because every time you change something, Vera needs to re-configure it, but can only do that when you press the activate button. Again, press the activate button repeatedly to wake it up and confirm you get the green cog. |
| − | The 'Off' button puts the thermostat in 'energy saving' (ie night) mode, and the 'On' in 'normal' (ie day) mode. You can add the Danfoss thermostat to scenes like any other Z-Wave device. | + | The 'Off' button puts the thermostat in 'energy saving' (ie night) mode, and the 'On' in 'normal' (ie day) mode. You can add the Danfoss thermostat to scenes like any other Z-Wave device. When you run the 'off' or 'on' commands, you will get a red 'failure' because they failed as the Danfoss is asleep. But the next time the Danfoss wakes up, Vera will re-try the failed command and turn it on or off. |
Revision as of 17:17, 2 July 2009
Pair the thermostat like normal. It will probably appear first as a thermostat with a red cog (meaning it's not configured), press the activate button on the thermostat repeatedly in rapid succession to wake it up. According to the documentation it should only require a double-click to wake up, and sometimes it does, but we've also seen thermostats that won't wakeup until you click the activate button 10 times very quickly. Vera should then be able to configure it, and will change it from a thermostat to a 'generic i/o device'. This is because the Danfoss isn't really a thermostat. It doesn't have temperature set points, or a thermometer, or heat/cool modes. It's just a 2 mode switch (daylight mode and energy saving mode).
When Vera shows the thermostat as a 'generic i/o' device, tell Vera what room it's in, click continue, and then click the '+' button next to it to set the desired wakeup interval and any other options. Note that the thermostat only wakes up periodically to accept commands. So when you press off or on, the command is queued until the next time the thermostat wakes up. You can reduce the wakeup interval so it wakeups or more often (click the + button on Vera's device page), but note that it will reduce battery time. The minimum wakeup interval is 300 seconds (5 minutes). When done, click 'save'. It will probably have a red cog again because every time you change something, Vera needs to re-configure it, but can only do that when you press the activate button. Again, press the activate button repeatedly to wake it up and confirm you get the green cog.
The 'Off' button puts the thermostat in 'energy saving' (ie night) mode, and the 'On' in 'normal' (ie day) mode. You can add the Danfoss thermostat to scenes like any other Z-Wave device. When you run the 'off' or 'on' commands, you will get a red 'failure' because they failed as the Danfoss is asleep. But the next time the Danfoss wakes up, Vera will re-try the failed command and turn it on or off.
