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This setting is only displayed in radiator type rooms.

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Manual override - check_me - move some to override mode?

In many of your zones the devices for that zone will have physical controls you can use to adjust the heating, such as the buttons on a Radiator Valve. From the zone setup pages, you can choose whether these buttons should be permitted to affect the heating in the zone, and how they affect the heating. The default setting for a zone is ... check_me

When manual override is disabled, any button presses on devices will be ignored by the system and the heating will carry out its normal schedule.

When manual override is enabled, the device can be used to put the zone into override mode without having the use the app. When you enable manual override you also choose the duration of the override from the devices in the zone, and the override temperature you want to use if none is selected on the device. 

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You only need to adjust one device in the zone. So if you have 2 Radiator Valves in the same room the system will take the override from one device and relay this new information to all of the devices in the room.

You have different levels of override control possible, based on the device you are adjusting:

  • On the Room Thermostat (DA-WRT-C) you can set the temperature of the override from the device. To override a zone from the thermostat:
    1. Press the up or down button until the desired temperature is reached. The zone will now override to the set temperature for the duration set on the app. If you stop at this point the system will use the override duration set on the app for this zone.
    2. If you wish to set the duration of the override, press the top button once for each hour you would like the override to last for. The zone will now override to the temperature and duration set on the thermostat. check_me
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  • On the Room Thermostat (DA-WRT-B) you can set the temperature of the override from the device. To override a zone from the thermostat:
    1. Rotate the dial until the desired temperature is reached. The zone will override to the set temperature for the duration set on the app.
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  • On a Radiator Valve (DA-WRV-C, DA-WRV-B, or DA-WRV-A) you can set the temperature of the override from the device. To override a zone from the Radiator Valve:
    1. Press the up or down button until the desired temperature is reached. The zone will override to the set temperature for the duration set on the app.
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  • On the Single Channel Receiver (HO-SCR-C) you can trigger an from the device. To override a zone ON from the receiver unit:
    1. Press the On (top) button. The system will use the override duration and override temperature set on the app for this zone.
  • To override a zone OFF from the receiver unit:
    1. Press the Off (middle) button. The system will use the override duration set on the app for this zone.
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  • On the Dual Channel Receiver (HO-DCR-C) you can trigger an from the device. To override a zone ON from the receiver unit:
    1. Check the door panel to see which of the white buttons relates to the zone you have chosen to override.
    2. Press both the correct white button and the green button at the same time. The system will use the override duration and override temperature set on the app for this zone.
  • To override a zone OFF from the receiver unit:
    1. Check the door panel to see which of the white buttons relates to the zone you have chosen to override.
    2. Press both the correct white button and the red button at the same time. The system will use the override duration set on the app for this zone.
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  • On the Electric Switch (HO-ESW-D) you can trigger an from the device. To override a zone ON from the receiver unit:
    1. Press the button at the bottom left hand corner of the receiver unit. The system will use the override duration and override temperature set on the app for this zone.
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  • On the Smart Plug (PH-PLG-C or PO-PLG-B) you can trigger an from the device. To override a zone ON from the receiver unit:
    1. Press the button at the bottom left hand corner of the receiver unit. The system will use the override duration and override temperature set on the app for this zone.
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In an On/Off zone, you can override the zone, but only by switching it On or Off. The On and Off buttons on the Single and Dual Channel Receivers and the buttons on the Electric Switch and Smart Plugs can be used to override their respective zones.

If you have a device in the My House, such as a Receiver unit controlling your heating or a Thermostat reporting the temperature to My House this can be used to affect all of your Radiator and Underfloor rooms with one manual override. 

  • For a Single or Dual Channel Receiver you can press the respective on button (as detailed above) and all of your Radiator and Underfloor rooms will override to the temperature and duration set in My House.
  • For a Thermostat you can adjust the temperature (as detailed above) and all of your Radiator and Underfloor rooms will override to the seelcted temperature on the device and to the duration set in My House.

This setting is shown in all zones types.

 

Pre-heating

The Genius Hub can automatically calculate the pre-heat duration for a chosen room, so that the room will reach the set temperature at the start of the ‘heating period’, rather than just starting to heat up at that time. Your hub Genius Hub is adaptive, so it's always learning from the temperature recorded by each room sensor. Using the local weather data and the heating history for each room, it will constantly adjust the pre-heat duration as the weather changes. This default setting for pre-heating is disabled. check_me

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This setting is only displayed in radaitor radiator and underfloor zones which have a device which feed the measured temperature back to the app. check_me

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Temperature offset

In some situations the Radiator Valves and Room Sensors can detect a different temperature to one another, for example if the Room Sensor in placed on an external wall it will misread the temperature due to the cool wall. When this happens and it is not feasible to move the Room Sensor due to the layout of the room, the devices can be manually offset so they read the same temperature.

To put an offset into a zone on the app:

 

  1. Scroll to the 'Temperature offset'
  2. Move the slider to the desired number and the offset will be applied.

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If you have a room in which the Room Sensor is misreading the temperature, resulting in the boiler running when the Radiator Valve has closed you, to calculate the offset of this room:

  • Subtract the measured temperature (displayed on the top left of the zone details) from the set temperature (displayed as 'set' on the top left of the zone details).
    • E.g. Measured temperature = 21.5°C, set temperature = 22.0°C, so 22.0 - 21.5 = 0.5
  • The calculated offset should be positive, and the slider needs to be moved to the nearest 0.5C to this positive value (e.g. +0.5C)

This setting is displayed in radiator and underfloor zones.

Zone reactivity settings

 For zones with a Room Sensor, you can change the reactivity settings of Footprint mode from here. the 3 changes you can make are:

  • Occupancy detection sensitivity: This determines how sensitive the Room Sensors are to detecting movement in the room. The default value is 70%, as our testing showed this is snesitive enough to detect small movements from people but not sensitive enough to trigger the heating due to pets moving about the room. However if you find that the system is not detecting you when you are in a room, we recommend adjusting this by 10% each time. 
    • Warning

      Setting this above 90% may result in false triggers being detected.

  • Heating start after: This setting is for how many consecutive minutes occupancy must be detected before the heating reacts to a person using the room. The default value is 2 minutes, as this is long enough to allow you to walk through the room or get a glass of water, and short enough to bring the heating on quickly once you are using the room. 
  • Heating stop after:This setting is for how many long occupancy must not be detected before the heating switches off in a room. The default value is 20 minutes, as this is long enough to pick up small movements if you are sitting down and watching TV or leave the room for a couple minutes to answer the door, and short enough that the heating won't continue running long after you are no longer using the room.

This setting is displayed in any radiator room which has a Room Sensor. check_me

Zone devices

This shows a list of devices assigned to the room. For example a radiator zone will have 1 or more Radiator Valves and likely a Room Sensor. These will be displayed in the list of devices, along with a button to remove the device.

To remove a device from the zone:

  1. Scroll to 'Zone Devices'
  2. Click on the + symbol to expand the list
  3. Click on the Bin icon to remove the device from the zone

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This will only remove the device from the zone, the device will remain linked to your system so it can be assigned to another zone.

Quick action bar

 

The more commonly performed tasks on the setup pages are located on the action bar found at the bottom of the screen. 

 

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  • The Assign device action allows you to assign a device, already linked to your system, to this zone.
    • When you click on Override the Genius system will ask you which zones you would like to override. You can choose just one zone or multiple zones. To select all of the zones, click on the link at the top of the list. check_me
    • Next, select the temperature to you wish to set in the selected zones. This temperature can be higher or lower than the schedules temperature in the zone, so you can use this feature to turn the heating off early if you are leaving the house earlier than usual.
    • Now you need to choose the how long the override is to affect the selected zones. This can be set from just 5 minutes to 24 hours, and so can be used so give the room a boost on those colder days or turn the heating off if you are going out for the day.
  • The Restore action cancels either the Override or the Off action which is set in the zones and reverts the selected zones back to their previous mode. This means that if you turn your heating to 'Off' over the Summer, you can just click 'Restore' to put your heating back on for the Winter.
  • The Off action turns all of your heating zones to Off mode.