If some rooms or parts of your home do not have their own ViCare Radiator Thermostats, you can still assure that a given area (here referred to as “Other Rooms”) can be controlled via the ViCare app. This feature is available for Viessmann heating devices from the 2019 generation onward.
For example, you may have thermostats installed in the living room, dining room and kitchen on the ground floor of your home, but not in the neighbouring office. “Other Rooms” cannot be controlled individually as they do not have their own smart thermostats or temperature measurement. Instead, the entire heating circuit in which the room is located is controlled.
How to add “Other Rooms”:
- Open “Settings” in the ViCare App and tap on “ViCare Smart Climate”.
- Access the advanced settings by tapping the 3 dots in the top right corner.
- Tap on “Other rooms settings” and activate the desired room using the toggle – either under “Floor Heating” or “Radiators”, depending on your setup.
- Assign a name to the room by tapping on “Name”.
- Lastly, you can enable or disable the Intelligent Pump Control. Please note that the Intelligent Pump Control may, under certain circumstances, result in insufficient heating of rooms that are not actively controlled by ViCare Smart Climate components.
- After tapping “Done”, the room will be successfully added to the system.
- It will now appear on the home dashboard and can also be accessed under “Other rooms settings” in the advanced settings (three dots in the top right corner) within the “ViCare Smart Climate” settings.
To prevent the temperature in “Other Rooms” from dropping too low, it is recommended to set time programs – either manually or using the Heating Schedule Assistant in the app. You can find instructions on how to use the Heating Time Assistant here. The temperature displayed on the dashboard for “Other Rooms” reflects the manually set target value – not a measured actual temperature.
In most cases, the right valve positions to be set manually are as follows:
- 1 ≙ 12°C
- 2 ≙ 16°C
- 3 ≙ 20°C
- 4 ≙ 24°C
- 5 ≙ 28°C
If all rooms within a heating circuit are equipped with smart components, you can deactivate the “Other Rooms” function in the advanced settings. Please note: Deactivating this function means that no automatic heat demand will be triggered for these areas – you will need to manually ensure that the valve is set to the correct position.
Tip: “Other Rooms” can be renamed to your choice (e.g. “Office” or “Back Hallway”) so that it appears with this name on the tile on your ViCare app dashboard.
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