Humidity setpoint - does it work? #107
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I don't have humidifiers so I haven't tested it personally. The specs say the allowed range is 20-80 with an exception for 0 which leaves a range gap of 1-19 on the lower end. Right now the HA number entity is limited to 20-80 since 1-19 is invalid. I will have to test how Home Assistant handles that. |
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Clarification: no matter what value for the humidity minimum setpoint in HA, the thermostat ignores it. I set it then look at the thermostat on the wall and the humidity setpoint is unchanged. Temperature changes on the same thermostat show up immediately. In addition the UI won't allow a zero setting. Can I give you some diagnostic output, perhaps direct from the serial server? |
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The way the gateway works is actually a two step thing: commands are sent to the gateway and the gateway communicates with devices. Devices can reject commands after the fact. I've added packet debugging to Release v0.9.26 Install that and enable debug logging for the integration, then try to change the humidity humidity settings. |
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Here's the log file with me attempting to change the humidity a few times. I was using the control displayed within the integration, avoiding the various other manifestations within HA. The physical thermostat never changed setpoint value. |
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It does look like it's working correctly. Command is sent and and a response showing the accepted value is returned. If it was rejected it would have returned Beyond this I will have to set up my extra 557 for humidity and test it in different configuration modes. Are these the correct values you were trying to set minimum humidity to? Set to 45%: Set to 20%: Set to 39%: Set to 20%: |
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yes, those are my requests. The physical device stayed at 28% in all cases. Do you have a contact at TekMar that can verify if the gateway really supports this stuff? It seems a likely culprit. |
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I don't have contacts, the best I can do is try to duplicate the issue with the test hardware I have. |
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the 482 does support humidity with a 557. i just want to clarify when you say "the device stayed at 28%"... the current humidity is shown in Monitor menu > Humidity. it also can be shown on the main screen (enabled via Display menu > Secondary item = HUM). when it's calling for humidity, the home screen shows "%RH ⬆️". the setpoint, though, is only visible through the Set Temp menu > Humidity Min. |
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Sorry I wasn’t clear. It’s the setpoint I’m referring to. I go into the menu as you describe for setting temp. Also I’m in the same room with the humidifier and I can hear it keeps running if it makes a difference I’m really just wanting to turn it offf |
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I have a fairly large domestic system - 11 zones with 9 x 553s and 2 x 557s. System is fairly new - 3 years since purchase and it's running protocol v3.
Each of the 557s has an attached humidifier and the setpoints show in HA along with the current humidity level. However, changing the setpoint doesn't affect the value on the thermostat. Temperature setpoint changes work perfectly on the same thermostats. I'm also suspicious that the lowest setpoint permitted is 20%, when the thermostat supports an 'off' setting which occurs when the value chosen is below 20%.
Perhaps use of humidifiers is very unusual and not well tested? I'd love to help fix this if it's a bug but where do I start? I'm motivated! Need to write some automations that turn off humidifiers when a window is open
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