Setting Up Automatic Switching for Temperature Control

Devices for heating (such as a fan heater, infrared heater) or cooling (like a fan) can be controlled with your smart home devices. To do this, set up automatic switching in order to turn on or off the connected devices automatically whenever a previously specified temperature is reached. The temperature is measured by a FRITZ!DECT device or with a radiator control that can be operated via the FRITZ!Box.

The temperature is measured by a FRITZ!DECT device (FRITZ!DECT 200/210/301/440) or with a suitable radiator control.

Example 1

An infrared heater is to be controlled so that whenever you are home, the temperature during the day and in the evening should not fall below 21 degrees (comfort temperature). When you are away and during the night the temperature is allowed to drop to 18 degrees (setback temperature).

Example 2

To keep your bedroom cool, two fans are to be switched on between 11:00 pm and 6:00 am whenever the temperature reaches 23 degrees.

Directions: Configuring Automatic Switching

  1. Select "Smart Home / Groups and Templates" in the user interface.
  2. Click on "Create Group" or open the settings of an existing group by clicking on the "Edit" button next to the group switch.
  3. Only for a new group: Enter a name for the group and select all devices that are to belong to the group. Click on "OK".
  4. Enable the checkbox "Switch group automatically".
  5. Select the "Temperature" option.
  6. Select "Heat" or "Cool", depending on what kind of devices are to be controlled.
  7. Select a Smart Home device as the temperature sensor. The device does not have to belong to the group.

  8. With the "minus" and "plus" buttons , define the temperature at which the sockets of the Smart Home devices are switched on and off:

    Kind of SwitchingTemperatureSockets "On"Sockets "Off"
    Heat Desired temperature, setback temperature When below the temperature When above the temperature
    Cool Comfort temperature When above the temperature When below the temperature
  9. Set up the schedule.
  10. Click on "OK".

Instructions: Setting Up a Schedule

  1. To mark times, move the mouse cursor to the desired day of the week and time of day.
  2. Press the left mouse button. The selected fifteen minute interval is marked blue or white.
  3. Here is how to mark longer periods of time:

 

PeriodProcedure
Within a certain day of the week Mark the first quarter of an hour, hold down the mouse key and drag the mouse left or right
Over several days Mark the first quarter of an hour, hold down the mouse key and drag the mouse up or down