intelligent room controller upgrade from v1

[J V]

Hello,

I'm trying to modernize my old config to make it up to date with the new components (config was made originally with Loxone Config 7, so things have changed). Now I'm fighting with the Intelligent Room Controller, and want to be sure I understand it.

In the IRCv1, you had 4 temperatures ("comfort", "cosy", "frost" and "party") to use in the schedule; you set your operation mode and the temperature that matches with it. It seems now there are only 2 ("in use" and "off"). But what does it mean? I mean, the solid colour means it is active and you can choose "in use" or "off", whereas the light yellow means the mode is not active. How do you interpret that: does the light yellow imply "off" or "not in use"? And what about "Fabric Protection", which by default has "off"?

Second thing, It means I cannot schedule 3 different temperatures - even though there are three different temperature presets? In most of my rooms, I use 3 temperatures to distinguish between home, night and away (+ protection if away for a long time), so this is a bit of an issue for me. There are inputs to trigger different temperatures (Ic for "comfort", Ia for "not in use" and Io for "off"). I could use "protection" as "away", and "not in use" as "night", but the labels are a bit counter-intuitive for a bedroom (but ok, I could get over this). And I would still be missing my fourth temperature. One option I see is to change the comfort temperature using the parameter input TC, so I could e.g. use away with a TC of 15 for short periods away and e.g. change the comfort temperature for longer times away. This would not be visible in the schedule (but at least the UI would show the changed temperature setting), but I don't see another way...

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[duncan]

you can stick with v1 IRC - thats what im doing even though im running config 10.2 as i dont think v2 gives me any advantages at all - same with the light controller....

[J V]

Yes... but I also never managed to finish it properly with v1. So now I want to finish it and figure it may be best to use the latest versions (I will have to force things to make it fit with my knx system anyway). :-)

So a bar on the schedule labeled "in use" means that for that time it takes the comfort temperature, but what with no bar drawn (light yellow) and a bar with the label off? Any ideas?

[J V]

Just updating my findings...

The IRC seems a bit more problematic than IRCv1, as a Operation Mode is either on, off or not in use; no ability to set a temperature or a value as before. Before, I matched KNX modes with Loxone operating modes, but that won't work now... My current plan is to set the schedule in the IRC to indicate when the room is in use or not. I then add a second schedule function block (and in this block each indication in the schedule can have a value), and this would show the temperatures according to the schedule. Both schedules run the same, so when there is a difference in target temperature of the IRC compared to output of the other scheduler, it means a change was made in the IRC and I will pass the temperature to the KNX. I remember I had some issue passing values to KNX, so I'll have to see if I can get that to work. But if not, I may follow duncan's advice and stick with IRCv1...