Decision Tree for Automation

Hi all,

I've just recently added enough puck to manage my whole house, which uses LG mini-split heatpumps.

As suggested, I had used manual for a while, and was ready to step back and let Flair run the house.

I set my system to:

"not away" (home)

Max Temp 25.5C / Min 17C overall

Set Point for house: 24.5

Set Point Mode: Active Rooms

Precool: no

"Smart Away"

My hope was that the rooms in the house would generally float up to 25.5, and using bluetooth beaconing, Flair would figure out which room I was in, and keep that room at 24.5. I'd expect that the mini-splits would run on auto-fan, and be left on, with the appropriate set-points (to trust the system to manage the shared compressors cycle times), and that when I left the house, all the rooms would be marked as "away."

Instead, all the pucks set the mini-splits throughout the house to 17C, marked all the rooms as "away." Blasting away the A/C.

So questions:

1) Where did I go wrong, and what should I set to get the behavior I was expecting.

2) How does Flair decide when to manage temperature using the unit set-points vs. turning on and off the splits, and should I care (my goal is the most efficient use of energy... my understanding is that the variable speed compressor prefers to be "left on" vs. manually cycled, to optimize power usage.

So I likely have an incorrect assumption or two, so welcome more information so I can start using Flair to save me the hassle of walking around and adjusting my min-splits one by one.

Thanks,

-Robert

Robert F

July 09, 2018 12:10

So its been a week, and after some more experimenting... it appears that the pucks do eventually tune the temperature settings of the units, it just takes a while to finish all the signaling after the initial "on" IR signals, so that seems to be working now.

I'm still experimenting with "manual away"... it appears that is where Flair begins to turn off units, and only turn them on to keep within the broad max/mins. That makes sense... so now my questions seem to be narrowing in on the "active rooms" concept... a neat idea... that would allow me to save money ny letting the house get a little less a/c and concentrate on where my family members are. Anyone get it working with Bluetooth beaconing, and any tips on either setup or troubleshooting? There's no documentation I could find on setup/troubleshooting of this feature for the Flair puck.

John Bartlet

July 09, 2018 20:20

While the bluetooth beacons are installed in each Puck, they are currently not enabled via software. Customers overwhelmingly asked us for scheduling to be deployed and we focused our attention on that. We hope to have bluetooth beaconing up in the future. If you have any more questions, please feel free to reach out at hello@flair.co!

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