Instead of creating a schedule for some of your zones, you may want them to follow the schedule of one or more other rooms, such as an en-suite following the heating schedule of the attached bedroom. This can easily be achieved by linking the 2 zones together so that they both use the same schedule, but the 'linked' zone will heat to its own temperature.
The relationship between the two zones can be thought of in terms of a parent and child relationship:
- The linked zone is the 'child' which will do what it is told by the 'parent' zone.
- A child can have multiple parents, for example a family bathroom could follow the heating schedule of the 2 bedrooms whose occupants use the bathroom. In this example, when either of the bedrooms call for heat the bathroom will control to its own temperature as well.
- A different temperature is allowed for a child zone as you may want a bathroom to be heated to a higher temperature than a bedroom, or a utility to be heated to a hallway to be heated to a lower temperature than the rooms around it.
If the schedule of a parent zone is updated, this change will automatically update for the child zone as well.
How to link zones
To set up a link between two zones:
- From the My House page, click on the zone you wish to link to another zone. (Click on the zone which will be the child).
- Click on that zone's sub-menu.
- Click 'Zone Setup'.
- On the Quick Actions bar, click on 'Link to zone'.
<image of zone setup with the 'Link' highlighted> - Select the parent zone(s) to link to.
- Click 'Link'
How to edit the child zone temperature
Once you have linked the child zone to the parent zone(s), the temperature of the child zone needs to be setup. To change the child zone temperature:
- From the My House page, click on the child zone you want to edit the active temperature of.