This Control4 driver has been designed to provide two-way control of Heatmiser underfloor heating systems.
Schedule banks are new to this suite – a powerful way to configure multiple unique schedules for a single thermostat driver, allowing you to switch between them at any time from your Control4 interface.
To simplify driver setup, the thermostats in this driver suite have actions allowing you to copy existing presets to other thermostats, meaning you will only need to enter your set of presets once.
If you also intend on integrating with any CoolAutomation products, we recommend you instead download our combined Heatmiser/Coolmater solution – this supports the same range of Heatmiser products as this combined driver, but also works with CoolAutomation air conditioning interfaces in a single driver.
If you are integrating a Heatmiser NeoHub, you will need to download the ‘HeatmiserNeo driver for Control4‘. This package includes the comms and thermostat driver.
If you are integrating a Heatmiser compatible wiring center (e.g. UH1, PRTN), you will need to download the ‘HeatmiserPRTN driver for Control4‘. This package includes 2 variants of the comms driver (allowing you the choice to control your system via either serial or IP) and the thermostat driver.
If you are integrating a Heatmiser Modbus system (e.g. TouchV2), you will need to download the ‘HeatmiserTouchV2 driver for Control4‘. This package includes 2 variants of the comms driver (allowing you the choice to control your system via either serial or IP) and the thermostat driver.
I cannot see any zones from my thermostat driver
If the drop-down menu for the zone name / id properties are empty / not what you except, follow the following steps:
In the comms driver, check that you have correctly defined the IP and port for each system (or the serial connection has been made, for serial variants)
The connection status properties in the comms driver displays any connection issues to the systems – if these do not report OK, please refer to the relevant installation guide for your system.
In the comms driver, choose the Actions tab, and click on Rediscover All Zones. This action can take up to 1 minute, but will re-discover all available zones in your systems, and re-populate the zone/id selection properties in the thermostat drivers (note – any existing configuration will NOT be lost when using this action).
If you still can’t discover the expected zones, feel free to contact us at support.janustechnology.co.uk, mentioning the driver version along with which variant you are using, and we would be happy to help.
How do I copy presets from one thermostat to another?
Before using this functionality, you should configure every thermostat driver in your project by selecting the Heatmiser/Coolmaster zone to be controlled and confirming the choice of allowed modes.
Next, use any standard Control4 UI to create a set of presets for one of your thermostats.
Once this is complete, select the thermostat driver in Composer that you have just set some presets for, and click on the Actions tab.
Press the Copy Presets to Other Thermostats action and choose the target thermostats using the device selector. You could also set Copy Schedule to Yes if you also want to overwrite the schedule and/or schedule banks on the target thermostat!
NOTE – if you try to copy a preset which is not valid on the target thermostat (e.g. a preset with HVAC Mode: Cool to a heating-only zone), the preset will not be copied.
How do I create a schedule from the thermostat driver?
Before creating a schedule in Control4, it is strongly recommended that you disable all scheduling within the Heatmiser systems. You can easily disable all scheduling within your Heatmiser system by pressing the action Clear Zone Scheduling in the comms driver.
Schedules for a thermostat are created in the usual Control4 manner, described below
Select the thermostat you wish to create a schedule for within the Control4 interface (via the app, touch panel etc.)
Press the Presets button, and add a new preset with the desired setpoint, HVAC mode and/or fan mode.
Now you can choose the schedule tab of the thermostat and add a preset to a desired date & time.
How does the Schedule Banks functionality work?
Schedule Banks is a new concept introduced by this driver that augments the functionality of the thermostat proxy.
When you create a schedule in Control4, this is obeyed year-round. This makes schedule creation simple, but falls short with the changing seasons – you may want an entirely different schedule for summer than in winter!
Schedule Banks solve this problem by allowing you to store up to 4 unique schedules for your thermostat driver, with the ability to switch the active schedule at any time.
Once you have configured a schedule in the Control4 UI, you can save this to a schedule bank using the Save Schedule Bank action or custom command.
To restore a specific schedule from the bank, use the Recall Schedule Bank action or custom command. Note that this will overwrite your current schedule, so make sure you have saved any changes to your old schedule to a schedule bank first!
Using the custom commands, you could restore different schedule banks throughout the year, giving you seasonal control of your scheduling.
To view all the schedules you have stored in your schedule bank, press the List Schedule Banks action.
With the Show Schedule Banks in Extras property set to Yes, you can access full control of the schedule bank functionality from within the thermostat proxy on the UI – just navigate to the Extras tab to find these controls.
Once you have configured your presets and schedule banks for one thermostat, you can use the Copy Presets to Other Thermostats action to quickly copy this configuration to your choice of other thermostats, saving you a huge amount of time during setup!
How do I put my system into holiday / vacation mode?
You can put your system into an away mode by pressing the Away Mode button in the Extras menu for any thermostat in navigator. This will turn every zone in that thermostat’s group OFF (Heatmiser will enter its frost-protect state).
You can configure Away Mode groupings through the comms driver.
Away mode can also be toggled via programming, with the custom commands on the comms driver.
While in away mode, configured schedules will be ignored, and you will be unable to adjust any thermostats from the Control4 UI.
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