vents connect to "wrong" gateway puck
I have a 3 level house with vents on all 3 levels. I started with one gateway puck on the middle level near the center of the house. Two (and sometimes three) of the vents were consistently reporting poor connectivity, so I added two more gateway pucks, one on each level. Now, some of the pucks that are closest to the new gateways are connecting to the gateways furthest away. For example, one vent in the top level ceiling is line-of-sight to a gateway puck about 12 feet across the room, but it is connecting to the gateway 2 levels below. Similarly, one of the basement vents connects to the top level gateway, despite being 15 feet line-of-sight to the gateway in the basement. I even removed the vents from the system and re-added them expecting them to most readily connect to the closest gateway... but it didn't change. Is there a way to prioritize which gateway a vent will connect to? I suppose it doesn't really matter which one they connect to, but it just seems weird that the vents in line of sight to a gateway don't all connect to that gateway!
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I agree, this would be a very helpful feature.
I also have this issue... poor connectivity algorithm. I'd prefer to be able to choose which vents connect each puck manually.
Or, at least improve this algorithm as its really bad at its current job. Maybe have a button in the (web)app to reset vent&puck pairing to strongest signal strength? -
I just connected my system and see the same thing. I have two pucks, one upstairs and one downstairs, but all of the vents have connected to the downstairs puck. Don’t really see a point in having two now, even though the sizing tool told me I would need two. Also not sure why it isn’t possible to choose which puck to connect a vent to. Seems like a logical feature to have.
I’m also curious if flair recognizes each puck that a group of vents is connected to as a pseudo zone, even though I only have one thermostat. Would be useful to group them to a pick per floor, so you could attempt to adjust the temp for each floor independently (within reason) using the dial on the puck, and have all of the vents on that floor act accordingly.
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I wouldn't worry about it. If there's a poor-quality connection between a vent and gateway, the vent will eventually switch itself to a better connection if one's available. (If you want to monitor this, there's a chart in the app's "home statistics" section showing the history of connections between vents and gateways). You just have to give it time – lots of time. I've just finished replacing all the batteries in my three-year-old system, and it was several days before the system settled into a stable configuration. (This was a system with 13 vents and 3 gateways. Maybe a smaller system wouldn't have taken so long). It's arrived at a somewhat bizarre setup – there are vents in the basement that are connected to a gateway on the second floor, and vice versa – but so long as each vent has a stable connection to a gateway, and each gateway has a stable wifi connection to the internet, then it doesn't really matter which vents are connected to which particular gateway. However, it would have been less frustrating if I'd know how long it would take for the system to re-establish stable connections.
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