Drayton Wiser - Hints and Tips Thread

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BigBen said:

B'stard Child said:

Yes

Its on the Wiser site somewhere

https://wiser.draytoncontrols.co.uk/

Thank you, but I can only see the manual instructions. Looks like I will have to actually move from the sofa today

Ahh remotely as in not actually get up and touch the TRV - not as far as I know so consider it exercise

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Have yo got the window open function on?

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dhutch said:

B'stard Child said:

Have yo got the window open function on?

Didn't know it had one?

Yep each TRV or roomstat has the option to switch on or off "open window detection"

Go into any TRV or Roomstat as if you were going to change the temp or schedule

At the bottom is room settings - hit that

Bottom of the page (just above Delete) is Open window detection

Swipe right to turn on Swipe left to turn off - just like Tinder

I have it activated on rooms Mrs BC "likes to air" despite the bloody heating being on or "rooms with doors to the outside" that she invariably leaves open when hanging out the washing or feeding the birds or other such activities.........

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BigBen said:

I have a question about the network extending plugs. Specifically I have one fitted right next to a room where the TRV is offline about 50% of the time (it has new batteries etc).

Is there a way to be sure the plug is working as a network extender and not just a remote plug, do I have to do anything to enable network extend mode? When recently messing about I noticed if I log into my hub there was some screen about extenders but didn't pay attention as I was busy fixing something else....

I have three Wiser plugs - all are attached to appliances I want to control on off times and monitor electrickery usage

All three are shown when I go into Wiser and click the settings button and then look at devices

I'm not aware of anything specific you need to do to set them up as network extenders. Since fitting I haven't had a single rad TRV lose connection. (before fitting it was a regular occurrence)

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BigBen said:

B'stard Child said:

I have three Wiser plugs - all are attached to appliances I want to control on off times and monitor electrickery usage

All three are shown when I go into Wiser and click the settings button and then look at devices

I'm not aware of anything specific you need to do to set them up as network extenders. Since fitting I haven't had a single rad TRV lose connection. (before fitting it was a regular occurrence)

That is what I expected to be the case. I will try putting a spare TRV in that room instead.

My other concern is each plug only supports a certain number of TRVs and I have quite a few that could potentially be out of range. Perhaps the plug assumes the nearest one (which is the one that drops out) has a stronger signal so is passed over for boosting.....

I think they are range extenders - not sure if they are only capable of extending the range of one TRV - I would have thought they are just bouncing whatever signals near them regardless of how many??

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FMOB said:

Indeed, they are talking a load of cobblers as usual.

They put an update out on 12th Jan, more cobblers about a rare android crash problem when the app starts, crashes and needs to be started again, so frigging rare they actually fixed it.

I only got that update today!!!!

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Audis5b9 said:

Anyone else having issues with the supplied batteries?

I've had one set need replacing after 7 days, and another after 6 weeks. Was expecting 6-9 months!?

Old stock been sitting around a long time??

I did post the stats on my battery life a while back - longest from memory is 377 days and shortest was 225 days

Distance and walls between TRV and the hub have a large impact on battery life but I wouldn’t be happy with your experience

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Anyone else notice Wiser breaks connection with the internet and goes off line at certain times of the day (18:45 or 19:45 seem to be favorites so it could be my internet rather than Wiser)