Following some great advice on here I was able to get my Vaillant VRC 700f configured correctly to control the heating.
I've now added the Ambisense starter kit (VR920 gateway + 3 VR50 rad thermostats) and additional VR50's for other rads, except for the bathroom rad with no TRV. I've set everything up in the Vaillant VRC700 app and the VR50's are showing the desired temperatures at the expected times and are correctly controlling the radiators.
Unfortunately it seems as though there should be some associated change made in the VRC 700f control as the previous programmes and temperature settings in that controller are turning the heating on and off when I expected it to be entirely driven by the radiator thermostats calling for heat based on the settings in the app.
As an example, at this moment all the room temperatures are above the temps set in the app for each room but the heating is on because the temp in the room where the VRC 700f is located is below the temperature that was set previously before I installed the Ambisense kit. This just results in the bathroom rad with no TRV heating up. I would've expected that rad to heat up only when one of the other rads called for heat.
Is anyone familiar with how the VRC 700f should be configured such that the heating just fires up when one or more of the VR50's calls for heat?
EDIT: I've removed all the previous heating programmes in the VRC 700f and what seems to happen is that it shows the lounge temperature (where it's located) and it shows the demanded heating temperature as the highest temperature demanded by a VR50. If the temp demanded by a VR50 is lower that the lounge temperature it doesn't fire up the boiler. At present the kitchen is calling for 20C (room is only 18C) but the boiler is off because the lounge is 21C.
I've now added the Ambisense starter kit (VR920 gateway + 3 VR50 rad thermostats) and additional VR50's for other rads, except for the bathroom rad with no TRV. I've set everything up in the Vaillant VRC700 app and the VR50's are showing the desired temperatures at the expected times and are correctly controlling the radiators.
Unfortunately it seems as though there should be some associated change made in the VRC 700f control as the previous programmes and temperature settings in that controller are turning the heating on and off when I expected it to be entirely driven by the radiator thermostats calling for heat based on the settings in the app.
As an example, at this moment all the room temperatures are above the temps set in the app for each room but the heating is on because the temp in the room where the VRC 700f is located is below the temperature that was set previously before I installed the Ambisense kit. This just results in the bathroom rad with no TRV heating up. I would've expected that rad to heat up only when one of the other rads called for heat.
Is anyone familiar with how the VRC 700f should be configured such that the heating just fires up when one or more of the VR50's calls for heat?
EDIT: I've removed all the previous heating programmes in the VRC 700f and what seems to happen is that it shows the lounge temperature (where it's located) and it shows the demanded heating temperature as the highest temperature demanded by a VR50. If the temp demanded by a VR50 is lower that the lounge temperature it doesn't fire up the boiler. At present the kitchen is calling for 20C (room is only 18C) but the boiler is off because the lounge is 21C.
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