Smart valves: batteries empty questions
I have two questisons regarding battery issues with the smart vales:
- So far I have never received a battery low notification. In the settings they are enabled and the batteries of different valves already died in the past without warning. Is this a known issue? Anything I can try to resolve this?
- Is there a way to avoid that the smart valve turns the radiator to 100% when the battery dies? It's quite bad when you are out of the house for a few days and this happens. So far I was lucky and the worst was the bathroom being heated to 32 degrees after a few hours of empty batteries.
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It happens to me too... no more notification.
Two years ago the notifications worked well, but suddenly they stopped working without changing anything in my notification settings. Everything is enabled, on the Android side and on the Account settings as well!
I receive the bticino gateway notifications from the Home+Control app (i.e. when the wifi is down), but not the notifications of Netatmo products.
For what concerns the possibility to close the valves instead of open them when the batteries are over, I completey understand the point of Netatmo. But, in my opinion it should be a choice of the user setting the behaviour of the valves when they run out of battery.
For example if I live in a cold city maybe I would like to open the valves in order to avoid the freezing pipes, if I live in a temperated location it could be usefull to set the valves closed when they batteries are over to reduce the consumptions.
Probably, the mechanism of keeping the valve closed, instead of open completly, has to be something mechanical and quite statics in order to not be dependant from the batteries, but I'm not expert :-)
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