Hi,
Apologies if this is a silly question...
I have a large house with 24 rads plus 4 towel rads. I originally installed a HIVE thermostat control in place of the old analogue thermostat by using the wires from here and wiring into the HIVE controller. The Hive controller was lit to say it was powered, and then when the thermostat called for heat, a second light lit, and the boiler fired up.
I've now just been through and installed the EVOHOME system, but am a little confused. I wired it up and have linked all my TRVs up but heres the issue.
I don't have controllers on the towel rads, and actually I have some normal TVRs in the spare rooms as the HR92's are very expensive when you're buying as many as I am, and so I wanted to save some costs.
So here is the problem. The boiler seems to be permanently live. This is to say that the boiler will shut off when thhe TRVs are set to 5degrees, however if I go upstairs and open up one of the manual valves, the boiler kicks back on again to feed this demand. Is this normal? I kind of want to control the boiler on and off with my zoning controls, so when a zone requires heat, the boiler fires up, but I don't want it to activate otherwise... IN my head this would work in such a way that everytime I heated a zone, then yes, the towel rads would heat up.. and i'm fine with that.. however the way it works in reality currently is that the towel rail keeps the boiler firing up and down all day long... am I missing something or do I literally need to install HR92s everywhere? When I select heating off, all my TRVs set to 5degrees, however, again, the boiler is still lit and ready to go if one of the manual valves is opened, and the green light on the controller on the wall is always lit, never goes out.
I'm just checking this is right, or have I done something wrong on the setup? Thanks
From HIVE to EVOHOME
Re: From HIVE to EVOHOME
ok so I have been doing some more testing of this today and the plot thickens ever so slightly.
I did a complete reset on all devices... I reset the wireless receiver, I reset the control box, and I unbound all of the TRVs and followed the instructions to the letter... here is what happens.
I set up only the living room with one TVR bound to living room zone. I set the temperature of this TRV to 30, and the receiver light switches on to green, and the boiler fires up.
I set the TRV to 15, and the Green light switches off, and the boiler shuts down.
Repeat sever times with the same result.
I have 4 rads in the living room. so I follow the instructions to now bind them in. I put all three to binding, then I go to settings, zone configuration, and living room. Then I click on RF Devices and this binds the open three TRVs...
I then set the temp to 30, and all three TRVs go to 30. The green light lights on the receiver, and the boiler fires up.
Now I set the temp to 15, all the rads wind down to 15... but the green light remains on the receiver, and the boiler remains on. If I manually override it the boiler switches off and the light goes out... but then 1 minute later it switches back on again.
I tried a complete reset and did it again, one TRV works fine, I bound another, and it worked fine, I bound another and it worked, I bound the 4th and it wouldn't switch off. I unbind one at a time but it only works once I unbind all three and just leave the original one bound, then switch off manually and it stays off. Then the process works again. I've tired clearing all the TRVS, and putting the setting to 12.1 then exit, which is supposed to be a factory reset..??? PLease, can someone tell me what the score is here..?
thanks
I did a complete reset on all devices... I reset the wireless receiver, I reset the control box, and I unbound all of the TRVs and followed the instructions to the letter... here is what happens.
I set up only the living room with one TVR bound to living room zone. I set the temperature of this TRV to 30, and the receiver light switches on to green, and the boiler fires up.
I set the TRV to 15, and the Green light switches off, and the boiler shuts down.
Repeat sever times with the same result.
I have 4 rads in the living room. so I follow the instructions to now bind them in. I put all three to binding, then I go to settings, zone configuration, and living room. Then I click on RF Devices and this binds the open three TRVs...
I then set the temp to 30, and all three TRVs go to 30. The green light lights on the receiver, and the boiler fires up.
Now I set the temp to 15, all the rads wind down to 15... but the green light remains on the receiver, and the boiler remains on. If I manually override it the boiler switches off and the light goes out... but then 1 minute later it switches back on again.
I tried a complete reset and did it again, one TRV works fine, I bound another, and it worked fine, I bound another and it worked, I bound the 4th and it wouldn't switch off. I unbind one at a time but it only works once I unbind all three and just leave the original one bound, then switch off manually and it stays off. Then the process works again. I've tired clearing all the TRVS, and putting the setting to 12.1 then exit, which is supposed to be a factory reset..??? PLease, can someone tell me what the score is here..?
thanks