<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Today I purchased a plastic box from Maplin, cut some holes in it, and put one of my 2 OpenTRV controller boards inside. It's powered from a battery caddy similar to that mentioned by Damon in an earlier e-mail.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As far as I can tell, it's working as intended. There are a series of flashes from the red LED when I make the battery connection (boot up flashes), and there are also flashes when I press buttons.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've looked over the user guide.</div><div><br></div><div>Q1. Now I have one board is connected to my PC semi-permanently, uncased. And one board in a black plastic case, with battery power. To what extent will the occupancy / light sensor fail in the cased board? (I don't even know what the light sensor is; is it the thing marked "LDR"?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now that I have a Conrad valve attached to a radiator, and having worked our way through the pairing issue that I mailed about yesterday, I can see data from the Conrad actuator in my console. Stuff like:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1146:30:73 FHT8V TX</div><div>1148:26:73 FHT8V TX</div><div>However, I don't see anything from the battery powered board being received and spewed out to the console.</div><div><br></div><div>Hence:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Q2. Should I see anything from the battery powered board being received and spewed out to the console?</div><div><br></div><div>I think I can figure out from the user guide how to send messages to the Conrad valve to get it to open (I just need to set the controller mode and temperature knob to appropriate settings, right?); however the user guide says that the temperature knob goes up to around 23 degrees and currently my Oregon sensor reports 24.5 degrees.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Uh, maybe here's another question.</div><div><br></div><div>Q3. How many devices are "paired"? Previously I paired the Contrad actuator with board #1 (connected to PC); and I set the House Code on that board (manually). Should I follow a procedure to pair controller #2, and / or set its House Code?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>(The board that is connected to the PC is currently flashing about once every 2 seconds. User Guide states "Essentially the more flashes and the more often the flashes, the more the room will be heated". But the Conrad Valve is still at 0%. It's been like this for some time; should I be seeing something on the Conrad vale (other than "0%")?</div>
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