Introduction
This manual describes how to control your heating using the Calculus portal. To control the heating, we use a scheduler. This is a calendar in which you can enter commands to the gateway user. This gateway then passes on commands to the heater at the time you set. Through smart energy management, you can optimize your energy consumption during and after working hours and reduce energy costs.
Instructions
Use the navigation menu to open the Scheduler.
Set up an assignment
In the scheduler, double-click on the date and time you want the heating to be turned on/off.
The following screen will appear, where you can set up a task.
Setting up recurring tasks
You can use the Repeat field to set the task to run multiple times, for example daily, weekly, monthly, annually or never. You can find more detailed information about this in the Calculus Planner manual.
You can also choose a color that displays the task in the planner. Click on the drop icon to choose a color.
Turn off the heating
To turn off the heating, we create the following 2 tasks:
We instruct the gateway to stop transmitting signals from the thermostat to the heater.
We give an order to the heating to turn off.
You create a task by selecting the Perform action option in the Schedule type box.
Select the asset type of the room in which the heater is located.
In the Action Definition field, you determine the type of action that will be performed.
We select the action Mirror_to_output.
Mirror_to_output determines whether the gateway passes a request to heat, from the to the heater, or not.
At the value of 0, no requests are passed.
At the value of 1, requests are passed.
Set Value to 0.
Then click on the checkmark in the bottom right.
Click the Add button, next to Commands, to create a second action.
Repeat the same steps in this second task for the Action Definition state.
State determines whether the heating is on or off.
At the value 0, the heating switches off.
At the value 1, the heating turns on.
Set Value to 0.
Then press the Save button in the bottom right.
An example of what an action in the scheduler looks like:
The relationship between the thermostat, gateway and heating now looks like this:
Turn on the heating
In the planner, double-click on the desired time. To turn the heating back on, only 1 action needs to be performed:
We create a task that changes the Value field of the Action Definition Mirror_to_output to 1.
After performing this action, the gateway passes requests back to the heater and turns it back on (so state also goes back to 1).
