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Diary of A Evohome User - Day 3

Day 3, So far so good, almost.

We have a fault showing on the hot water which showed up about 3 hours after everything was installed. Although the controller shows the fault everything still works as expected which is a bit of a puzzle.  Whilst having the fault showing is a pain it has no impact on the system so for now I can live with it for now. We can work out the issue in the coming days and having mentioned it on twitter the Honeywell team were very fast to get in touch, and whilst this was the USA team they raised a support ticket and passed it on to the UK team.

Everything else is working well and as we're only into day three the process of find tuning is still on going.  The tweaks are easy to make via the app which although lacking any sign of the slightest bell or whistle gets the job done.

TRV showing the illuminated screen

Now that we've got the basics covered we've also started to play with the Alexa voice control integration.  There are mixed reviews for the Echo skill, however on first play things seem to be mostly positive however I have noticed that a couple of commands don't always seem to work.  I need to investigate this more to understand what is going on there and do some proper fault finding, to see if the issue with temperature reporting I'm seeing is a real one of it it's user error. 

Over all things are looking positive, hopefully things will continue to be positive. 
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