Dashboard

System Overview in HD

The Dashboard is home-screen for the skill and is automatically displayed upon launch if your Echo has a touchscreen. All your zones (including DHW, if you have it) are shown in their own tiles in a colour-scheme familiar from the Evotouch and TCC App. The current System Mode appears in the subheader, together with any constraint 🏁 on its duration. Within the tiles, any zones calling for heat will have a  symbol; really cold zones have a . Above each tile, the colour associated with a zone's actual temperature is indicated in a small header-bar (this can be hidden if desired). During sync with TCC, a appears in the top right corner.

What's different to your Evotouch is the colour-coded appendage under each zone. It identifies the currently-active ABC schedule for the zone (or 📋 if the live schedule does not match a preset), while summarising the next-switchpoint time/SP. The symbol 📅 or 🌅 flanking the time indicates whether it occurs later today or early tomorrow. Arrows ↑, ↓, ↔ next to the SP indicate whether it will lead to an increase/decrease/no-change to the current SP. Note that it's possible in the settings to hide a zone's appendage when the next switchpoint will not actually change the current SP for a zone (to reduce screen-clutter). This is seen e.g. in zones Guestroom, Studio & Garage in the example screenshots above.

An optional revolving array of usage hints appears in the dashboard's footer, as do touch-enabled icons for selecting  Scenes,  Setpoint-Editor,  Help,  Settings,  Peek (if you have hidden any tiles to reduce screen clutter),  Graphing (if you have connected a HGI-80), and Locations (provided you have multiple systems).

You can assign a default zone to each of your Echos by saying e.g. "Alexa, the default zone is the Kitchen". Subsequently, when speaking to a particular Echo, you can omit the zone name (or just say 'here') — "Alexa, make it 20° for 30 mins" would then target the Kitchen zone by default. It can be reassiged at will and deleted by saying "Alexa, delete the default zone".

Note that a more limited display experience is provided on the small/round-screened Echo Spot. You also cannot create/edit activities/scenes or groups — nor create multiple schedules — without having a rectangular screen.

See the section with Example Commands.

Screenless

Uncomplicated ease-of-use

The myriad of features in EvoControl Smart Heat have been designed in a way that you can just ignore the ones you don't want to use and keep things uncomplicated.

If all you have is e.g. a screenless Echo Dot device, all of the intuitive constrained-override commands are still available and require no setup. They're the ones that save money and raise comfort by allowing you to specify an until/duration for overrides both to setpoints and the system mode:

• Set the heating mode to 'Economy' until 9 PM
• Set the system to 'Boost' for 30 minutes
• Set the TV Room & Playroom to 18° until 9 PM
• Set the Bathroom to 22° for 20 minutes
• Raise the whole house by 1° for an hour
• Reduce the whole house by 1° until 5PM

It goes without saying that all the query commands work too, so you can ask if there is heat demand or what's next for the system.

If you also own an Echo Show and have set up the likes of Scenes/Activities, Groups, and/or Multiple Schedules, all of the commands for using these features work perfectly on screenless devices in other rooms — the touchscreen is only needed to set them up, not to use them!

Multiple Schedules

Every zone gets 3 ABC schedules

Evohome natively supports a single-schedule paradigm but EvoControl Smart Heat can store up to three full schedules in your EvoControl account for upload to TCC at will. This can be very useful e.g. for switching between Night/Day shifts or Summer/Winter. The extra schedules are referred to as ABC but a nickname can be assigned to them using the settings screen to jog your memory. Which of the ABC schedules is currently-active for a zone is shown in each tile's appendage.

There's another reason for having multiple schedules — you can vocally specify setpoint changes that should apply later today rather than starting now. If at 13:30 you say "Set the Kitchen to 20° until 2PM", that change starts now and is just a regular TemporaryOverride. However, you can also say e.g. "Make it 20° at 4 PM for 30mins" and that change will not be immediate but will take effect at 4PM (and last until 4:30PM). This is achieved by dynamically modifying the active schedule. That temporary schedule can be discarded after use by reverting to a saved ABC. As a visual reminder, if you have edited the active schedule by voice insertion of a switchpoint, the relevant appendage on the main dashboard indicates 📋 rather than ABC.

In the schedule view in the UI, a gray box appears around today's day-name in the header and a vertical crimson bar is drawn beside the switchpoint that resulted in the current target for the zone (which can be from last night if there was no switchpoint this morning).

Some example schedule-related commands:

• "Alexa, open Smart Heat"…
• Alexa, show the Bathroom schedule
• Alexa, make it 19° at 4 PM → inserts 1x switchpoint
• Alexa, make it 18° at 5 PM for 45 mins → inserts 2x switchpoints
• Alexa, make it 17° from 8 PM until 21:30 → inserts 2x switchpoints
• Alexa, undo → the most recent insertion
• Alexa, upload schedule A in the Kitchen
• Alexa, restore schedule C in the Livingroom, Bathroom & Bedroom
• Alexa, go back to schedule B everywhere
• Alexa, upload schedule A to the Bedrooms Group
• Alexa, restore schedule C in the Bedrooms

When you first enable EvoControl, it automatically fills the A preset with your current TCC-cloud schedule for all zones. This is so that you can easily revert to A after a temporary schedule-edit utterance. You can of course alter this preset at any time and it's merely a starting-out convenience.

From the basic schedule overview, there are self-explanatory buttons for  View,  Upload ABC,  Edit and  Save.

Make sure you also see the sections on Schedule Editing and on Schedule Comparison.

Activities / Scenes

The shortest path to Energy Savings

By far the easiest way to reflect real-life zone-occupancy makes use of activities (also called scenes). You create/name them using the Echo's touchscreen scene-editor and activate them at will by voice/touch. Each involved zone has its own setpoint which you determine when creating the scene. Any zones you omit from a scene will be unaffected when you trigger it. Up to 12 activities can be saved and subsequently activated (and even scheduled) with or without a specified until or duration.

The 1^st example screenshot shown above is of an activity named 'Bedtime' which sets the Wardrobe zone to 19.5°, the Bedroom to 18°, the Bathroom to 22°, and leaves all other zones unaffected. Tapping  Activate would trigger this activity,  Edit will unlock it for editing, while the arrow keys will browse backwards/forwards through the other saved activities.  New launches the editor to start creating a new scene from scratch.

The 4th screenshot shows the scene-editor and an example of activity-creation. Here, 4 zones have already been tapped to add them to an as-yet unnamed new activity. Whenever at least 1 zone is selected the  Assign Name button is enabled — it will open an on-screen popup so you can type a name for the activity when you're all done. If you tapped the zone in question again it would be de-selected, while tapping other zones will add them to the activity too. Tapping the and arrows above and below each tile sets the desired SP.

In the final screenshot you can see that all zones comfortably fit the screen without resorting to scrolling, even for the Evohome worst-case max of 12 zones + DHW.

Some example scene-related commands:

• "Alexa, open Smart Heat"…
• Alexa, show activities
• Alexa, show scenes
• Alexa, activate 'Watch TV'
• Alexa, activate 'Boost Upstairs' for 20 minutes
• Alexa, trigger 'Studying' until 9 PM
• Alexa, start 'MovieTime' for 90 minutes
• Alexa, schedule 'Bedtime' to start at 10PM
• Alexa, schedule 'Working' from 4PM until 6:30PM
• Alexa, schedule 'Siesta' starting at 2PM for 1 hour
• Alexa, list my activities

When you first launch EvoControl Smart Heat, you'll see that an activity called Standby has already been created for you. This assigns a setpoint of 5° to all your zones which is similar to what the HeatingOff system mode normally does. When the system is in true HeatingOff mode, it rejects manual overrides from your TRV valves or spoken overrides via EvoControl. The good news is that when this Standby activity is active, any overrides will be handled. Some examples:

• Alexa, activate Standby
• Alexa, activate Standby for 2 hours
• Alexa, activate Standby until 4PM
• Alexa, schedule Standby to start at 7PM
• Alexa, schedule Standby to start at 8PM for 2 hours
• Alexa, schedule Standby from 2PM to 3:45PM

Activating a scene — even one that involves all zones — doesn't change the System Mode but rather the mode(s) of the involved zone(s). For that reason, to return to 'normal' you must retract the indidivual overrides. "Set all zones to Follow Schedule" or "Reset the System Mode" will achieve this. Saying "Set the System Mode to Auto" won't have any effect because it is already Auto!

Setpoint Editor

Change multiple zones at once

While you will usually change the setpoint of a single zone by voice (e.g. 'Set the Kitchen to 20° until 2PM') or those of multiple zones by triggering an Activity (e.g. "Alexa, activate Siesta for half an hour"), there can be occasions when you want to address multiple zones manually.

The easiest way to do that is in the Setpoint Editor (this looks a lot like the Scene/Activity Editor, with the exception that the center of the tile is not tappable here). It displays all your zones with their current setpoints in a special view where each tile has and tappable arrows above and below the SP. If you alter anything, the  Upload button becomes active so you can send your changes to TCC.

Just like with the Schedule Editor, there are and buttons to bulk-change all the displayed zones by ± 0.5°. The and buttons allow you to pre-populate the editor with either the current setpoints as basis (this is the default), or the current actual temperatures.

If you change your mind, you can use the back button at the top left of the screen to ignore the changes or alternatively press the  Cancel button. You can say "Alexa, undo" even after you already submitted the changes, provided it's the first spoken command after the submission. This will restore the setpoints that were in effect just before the edits.

The editor can be shown by tapping the  Setpoint-Editor button in the footer of the main dashboard, or alternatively by saying "Alexa, show the setpoint editor".

Example Commands

So many ways to say a command…

Whenever you either tap the  Help button on the main dashboard or say "Alexa, help" when the Skill is in-session, a scrollable list of example commands is displayed:

• System Mode
• Set the system mode to 'Auto'
• Set the heating mode to 'Economy' until 9 PM
• Set the system to 'Boost' for 30 minutes
• Set the heating mode to 'Away', ending
• Set the system mode to 'Day-Off' for 2 days
• Set the system mode to 'Custom'
• Set the heating to 'Frost Protection' (Off)
• Reset the system mode
• What's the system mode?

• Zone Control
• Set the Office to 20.5°
• Make it 19° here
• Make it 20° in the Livingroom & Kitchen
• Set the TV Room to 18° until 2 PM
• Undo → undoes an override if you got the zone name or temperature wrong
• Set the Lounge to 22° for 40 minutes
• Set the Garage to 10° permanently
• Raise the whole house by 1° for an hour
• Lower the Office by 0.5°
• Reduce the whole house by 1° for half an hour
• Return the Bedroom to follow-schedule
• Cancel the Bathroom override

• Query
• What's the Cinema temperature?
• Tell me the Bedroom setpoint
• Show the Livingroom schedule
• What's the average temperature?
• What's the coldest room?
• What's the warmest zone?
• Is there heat-demand?
• What's the Studio climate?
• Give me a system summary
• Show today's roster
• What's next for the Office?
• What's the Hot Water state?

• Schedule
• Show the Livingroom schedule
• Make it 19° at 4 PM
• Make it 18° at 5 PM for 45 mins
• Make it 17° at 8 PM until 21:30
• Make it 22° in the Bedroom at 11 PM
• Undo → removes most recent verbally-added switchpoint
• Upload schedule A in the Study
• Restore schedule B in the Bathroom and Bedroom
• Go back to schedule C everywhere

• Scenes/Activities
• Show activities
• Activate 'MovieTime'
• Undo → undoes an accidentally-wrong activity-activation
• Activate 'Boost Upstairs' for 20 minutes
• Trigger 'Watch TV' until 9 PM
• Start 'Cooking' for 30 minutes
• Schedule 'Bedtime' for 10PM
• Schedule 'Studying' from 4PM until 6:30PM
• Schedule 'Workout' starting at 2PM for 1 hour
• List my activities

• Groups
• Set the Kids Rooms to 20°
• Set the Bedrooms Group to 21° for 30 mins
• Increase the Upstairs Rooms by 0.5° until 11PM
• Set the Cellar Group to 10° permanently
• Lower the Downstairs Group by 1°
• Upload schedule A in the Bedrooms Group
• List my groups
• Show the group-creator

• Domestic Hot water
• Turn off Hot Water
• Turn on Hot Water for 20 mins
• Turn on Hot Water at 5PM for 45mins
• Turn on Hot Water at 10PM until 11:30PM
• Show the Hot Water schedule
• Upload schedule B for Hot Water
• What's the Hot Water state?

• Multiple Locations
• List my locations
• Select location number 2
• What's the selected location?

• Miscellaneous
• Update my configuration
• The default zone is the 'Lounge'
• What's the default zone?
• Help
• Go Back
• Repeat
• Say that again?
• Cancel
• What's new?

Groups

Up to 12 named Zone-Groups

Activities and Groups both address simultaneous setpoint-changes for multiple zones but they do so differently. As mentioned earlier, with activities you pre-determine the setpoints when the activity is created — the same settings are always re-used upon activation. With groups, the common setpoint (or increment/decrement adjustment) is mentioned as part of the spoken command each time you address a group. Both paradigms have their uses!

Let's say you have a group called 'Bedrooms' with 2 members: 'Master Bedroom' and 'Guestroom'. If e.g. Master Bedroom was currently set to 18° and Guestroom was set to 20°, saying "Alexa, increase the Bedrooms Group by 1°" would assign 19° to Master Bedroom and 21° to Guestroom. Saying "Alexa, set the Bedrooms to 15°" sets the whole group to 15°. Whether you include the word 'Group' or omit it is optional but it can be useful for disambiguation if you have a regular zone with a very similar name. Groups can also be the target for ABC schedule commands. Note that when creating a group, the  Assign Name button does not become active until you have selected at least 2 zones because a group must have more than one zone to make sense.

Some example group-related commands:

• "Alexa, open Smart Heat"…
• Alexa, set the Kids Rooms to 20°
• Alexa, set the Bedrooms Group to 21° for 30 mins
• Alexa, increase the Upstairs Rooms by 0.5° until 11PM
• Alexa, set the Cellar Group to 10° permanently
• Alexa, lower the Downstairs Group by 1°
• Alexa, upload schedule C in the Bedrooms Group
• Alexa, list my groups
• Alexa, show the group-creator

Eco/Boost Offset

Tell the Skill that which it cannot retrieve…

There are certain parameters which you can set on your Evotouch panel which Honeywell does not expose via the API and which the Skill therefore has no way of knowing. You can fill them in on this page which is reached from the  Offsets button on the  Settings page.

While Honeywell always refers to 'Eco/Boost' mode regardless of the offset, if you specify your chosen -3°…+3° offset to the Skill then it will reflect Eco 🌿 (for <0) or Boost ♨️ (for >0) in both the spoken and on-screen terminology so as to better address your actual setting.

Another advantage of specifying your offset is that the Skill can use it to compensate for Evohome's unintuitive behaviour when the System Mode is Eco/Boost.

Normally, when you define a TemporaryOverride (e.g. on your Evotouch or in the TCC App), the Evotouch will apply the selected offset after receiving the new setpoint (behaviour introduced in the 2020 firmware update). However, this means that if the System Mode is Eco/Boost and you ask "Alexa, set the Kitchen to 20°", you will briefly see the 20° appear on your Evotouch but it will quickly drop to e.g. 17° if your offset is the default -3°.

If you set the 🌿 AutoWithEco Offset Compensation slider switch here to 'ON' then the Skill will pre-apply the mathematical inverse of the offset so that when the Evotouch post-applies the offset, the net result will be the temperature you actually had in mind. When the switch is ON then a THRESHOLD tile appears for you to choose the threshold above which the compensation is to apply (usually 16° but selectable here in case of future firmware changes).

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Note that changing the values on these tiles is not communicated back to your Evotouch (there's no support for that in the API).

Settings Screen

Customise EvoControl's Look & Feel

You enter the settings screen from the main dashboard by tapping the  Settings icon (note this can only be done on Alexa-enabled devices with a rectangular screen). The slider buttons allow you to:

• 🌈 Actual° above Tile Show/hide the coloured header-bar above each tile on the main dashboard.
• 🗄 Trim Appendages Show/hide the schedule appendage under each tile whenever no SP-change will actually result from that switchpoint being triggered. In other words, if the next SP is the same as the current SP.
• 🗣 One-Shot ➡️ Session Keep the session open on an Echo show after a one-shot command. A one-shot is when the Skill is not in-session and you invoke with a fully-executable command included in your utterance. For example, "Alexa, ask Smart Heat to set the Livingroom to 20° for an hour". On a screenless Echo, the Skill will always auto-exit after the command is confirmed. On an Echo Show, you have the option here of also exiting or alternatively automatically transitioning to a session (which will allow you to peruse the dashboard and issue more commands without re-invoking).
• 💡 Hints in Footer Show/Hide the usage hints in the dashboard footer. The first few (important) hints are always the same but thereafter they appear randomly to help you learn all the available commands. When you are very familiar with everything it can be desirable to hide them.
• 📶 Enable/Use HGI-80 If you have optionally linked the Skill to use USB/RF with a HGI-80/Domoticz, an option will appear to enable/disable communication with Evohome using your USB device instead of the TCC Cloud (not shown above).
• 🔎 Larger Tiles on 5" If you have more than 8 tiles to display on the small screen of the Echo Show 5", there's an option to make the tiles larger so that they are easier to read. This will, however, necessitate scrolling in order to see >8 tiles. The choice is yours!

Under the slider switches are 3 form fields where you can enter the nicknames for your ABC schedules using an on-screen keyboard. The footer shows your current Default zone which you assigned using the e.g. "Alexa, the default zone is the Livingroom" command.

To the right are 5 touch-enabled icons for:  Aliases to specify a 1:1 relationship between non-English zone names (or heavily-abbreviated English names) and their English equivalent for Alexa to understand,  Offsets to reach the sub-settings page for specifying values not retrievable in the API,  Groups for defining/browsing zone-groups,  Zone Order for setting the tile display order on the main dashboard view, and  Account to refresh the Skill configuration if you change something in your TCC account.

Zone Sort Order

Choose your preferred arrangement

This screen (which is reached by pressing  Zone Order in the  Settings screen) allows you to select the sort-order for zone-tiles as displayed on the main dashboard (incidentally, also in the setpoint-editor, the scenes-editor and the groups-editor).

When you tap any desired tile in the bottom row (unset) it is moved to the top row (set) as the next item. Tapping a top-row item moves it back down to the unset row. When all the tiles are set then the  Save button is enabled and the sort-order can be saved.

Hitting the back arrow in the top-left corner of the screen will abandon the entire edit-session without saving it.

Aliases

International Zone Names

If your native spoken language is not supported by Alexa, it's likely that you will use either British or American English with Alexa. However, the zone names as displayed on your Evotouch are likely in your native language and Alexa will therefore not understand them.

On the  Settings page, you'll find a button  Aliases that will open the Alias Editor. Here you can define and save a 1:1 mapping from your native zone names to English language equivalents. The names you provide are your choice and do not even have to translate correctly, as long as they are understandable room names in English you're good to go! Note that DHW is always called Hot Water and cannot be assigned to.

The concept can also be useful if your zone names are already in English but e.g. strongly abbreviated so that fuzzy-matching a zone name fails. In that case, you can define an alias for just that zone with the name spelled out in full for Alexa to comprehend.

Whenever you define one or more aliases, your Activities/Scenes and Groups are automatically adjusted to reflect the aliased name so no manual editing is required.

You'll also notice a series of green radio-button toggles to the left of your zone names on this screen. These work regardless of whether you have assigned an alias or not and serve to hide the zone in question from the normal view on the main dashboard. This can be useful if you have a lot of zones and a very small Echo screen to display them on. After you have selected/de-selected whichever zones you want to hide/unhide, the  💾 Hidden button becomes active for you to save the changes.

If you have hidden any tiles in this way, the main dashboard will show a new button in the footer which can be used to peek at all zones for the duration of the current session or until de-selected.

Note that hidden zones can still be controlled/queried by voice and also still appear in Scenes/Activities, Groups and the Setpoint Editor.

Graphing / USB

Last 24h Actual vs Setpoint

EvoControl can optionally interface to Evohome through RF/USB and the open-source Domoticz home automation software — you'll need a HGI-80 (or equivalent, e.g. SSM(R) or nanoCUL) interface for this option to become available.

Local control is not only snappier, it has the added advantage of providing measured temperature readouts accurate to 0.1° instead of 0.5°. Also, the % heat-demand per zone is reported and EvoControl indicates it in the opacity of the flame symbol in each tile on the dashboard. Any zones with an Open Window status will show . When you ask Alexa either for a summary or if there is demand, a dedicated screen is shown with the numerical percentage values and also the current battery-percentage of each zone's sensor/actuator.

When RF/USB is enabled in your smartskills Account Dashboard, this option allows EvoControl to draw graphs/plots of the actual/setpoint temperatures for each zone over the previous 24 hours. A icon then appears on the bottom-right of your dashboard. When tapped, it changes the default subsequent zone-tap from show-schedule to show-graph.

Also included in the graph is a plot of the Live Schedule data for the same period. You'll normally observe discrepancies between the Setpoint and Schedule plots due to the effects of optimum start/finish and e.g. manual overrides. If you tap on the caption text then the plot for that particular curve toggles opacity between 1.0 and 0.3 so that you can better compare overlapping portions of the 3 curves.

By default, the horizontal resolution is an impressive 5 minutes. The scaling on the y-axis is dynamic and adjusts so as to show as much relevant detail as possible. EvoControl's colour-coded Graphs highlight the average/lowest temperatures as a visual aid to how long it takes rooms to respond to setpoint changes and e.g. how quickly temperatures drift naturally over time due to thermal gain/loss. A horizontal line shows the average temperature for the period, while a vertical line is drawn through the lowest measured temperature of the past 24h. Those insights can help you plan the optimal schedule entries to achieve your home-comfort goals while minimising energy use.

If you include a temperature device (whether real or virtual) called Outside or with the value alias: outside in the device description field, EvoControl can display graphs of the outdoor temperature during the previous 24h. The dashboard header will then also include the current outside temperature at all times.

Some example graphing-related commands:

• "Alexa, open Smart Heat"…
• Alexa, show the Bedroom graph
• Alexa, next

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Graphing without requiring a HGI-80 is a feature which is under consideration for development if there is sufficient interest from the EvoControl user community. If you'd like to see that feature added in a future release, let us know via the website's contact form so we can track interest!

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Note that this feature is for technically-savvy EvoControl users with a smart-home setup. In order to enable communication with Domoticz, you will need to have a https connection to a password-protected proxy such as apache, nginx or ngrok. You'll also need to have defined a 'Thermostats' or 'EvoControl' room-plan in Domoticz which contains all your thermostats zone/relay devices plus the Evotouch controller device. You'll find help on our easy-ngrok setup procedure here.

Usage Tips

Some useful Pointers

EvoControl is a so-called custom Skill, which means its voice-model is not based on any pre-defined template but was especially written to address the envisaged functionality. Because it's not a smart-home Skill, your thermostats will not appear in the Alexa app as smart-home devices.

To use EvoControl, you have to first invoke it by name. If you use any other custom Skills then the process should be familiar.

We can differentiate between one-shot and session invocation — how they behave depends on whether your Alexa-enabled device has a display or not:

• With a one-shot, while Alexa is idle you say something like e.g. Alexa, tell Smart Heat to set the system mode to Auto or Alexa, ask Smart Heat if there's heat demand. It's called a one-shot because it will just execute a single command and then the Skill will exit. You could subsequently issue another one-shot or e.g. ask Alexa for the weather. Without a screen, the Skill will always exit but if you have a display then there's a user-preference in the Skill-settings to automatically transition EvoControl to session-mode after handling a one-shot.
• To deliberately start a session, while Alexa is idle you say Alexa, open/start/launch Smart Heat. After the beep you can now issue back-to-back commands without first having to say the Alexa, ask Smart Heat… part each time. For example, Alexa, set the system mode to Auto or Alexa, is there heat demand?.

Remember that while you're inside a session, Alexa only handles commands intended for this Skill so if e.g. you ask for the weather while a session is active, you'll get an error that "EvoControl cannot help you with that".

Note that each time EvoControl sends commands to the TCC cloud it looks for a confirmation message from Honeywell. If that confirmation is missing because e.g. the TCC service is temporarily offline, you'll be told to verify things on your Evotouch. If you launch the Skill while TCC is offline you'll be told so and a link will be shown on your Echo's display to a Honeywell page to check for when it returns to service.

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The Undo command is context-sensitive and can:

• Undo a switchpoint-insertion when editing schedules by voice. If you say e.g. "Alexa, make it 20° in the Kitchen at 5 PM" and realise you meant the Bathroom and not the Kitchen, say "Alexa, undo" (and then of course issue the correct command).
• Revert things after a TemporaryOverride command. If you say e.g. "Alexa, set the Office to 20° until 5 PM" and realise you meant the Kitchen and not the Office, say "Alexa, undo" (and then of course issue the correct command). This also works for multiple zones or Groups.
• Revert things after incorrect scene/activity activation. If you say e.g. "Alexa, activate WatchTV" and realise you really meant to activate "Bedtime", say "Alexa, undo" (and then of course issue the correct command).

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EvoControl uses fuzzy-matching to match your zone names as spelled for TCC against Alexa's expected spelling thereof. If you have a TCC zone called 'Master Bedrm' or 'Mstr Bedrm', Alexa will hear 'Master Bedroom' when you wish to address it by voice. Thanks to the fuzzy matching, the correct zone will still be addressed (it does depend to some extent on how 'close' your other zone names are). There should therefore be no need to rename your TCC zones to work with EvoControl.

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If any of your zones have blank names (e.g. from a bound but spare HR-92) then they will be skipped over during discovery.

Diagnostics

Real-Time Fault Log

With EvoControl, you don't have to visit menus to consult a fault-log like on your Evotouch because diagnostic information is shown directly in the Dashboard and for each tile individually.

• Indicates a TempZoneSensorCommunicationLost or TempZoneActuatorCommunicationLost issue. You will sometimes see these faults popping up in your log for zones furthest from your Evotouch — they are often transient in nature due to temporary comms-glitches.
• Depicts a TempZoneSensorFailure or TempZoneActuatorFailure issue.
• Reflects a TempZoneSensorLowBattery or TempZoneActuatorLowBattery status.
• Is shown when a zone is not currently reporting its temperature. In that case, a red bar also appears in the zone header and a ❔ is shown instead of the current temperature. This error can surface for e.g. a spare HR-92 that's still bound but has had its batteries removed.

Multiple Locations

Unite multiple Evohome Systems

EvoControl brings all your Evotouch panels together in a single place. When you have multiple locations registered to your TCC Account, the bottom right of your dashboard footer is populated with extra numerical buttons to allow direct selection of each system. It doesn't matter if each Evotouch is situated at a different physical address (e.g. Home, Chalet) or at the same address e.g. in a large home or office that required more than 12 zones.

Some example location-related commands:

• "Alexa, open Smart Heat"…
• Alexa, list my locations
• Alexa, select location number 2
• Alexa, what's the selected location?

Note that only one location can be active at a time — you cannot issue voice commands addressing e.g. location 1 while location 2 is displayed on your dashboard.

Schedule Editing

Modify switchpoints in Bulk

You can do simple editing of today's schedule using voice inputs, but not create/modify a whole week's schedule by voice. For that we have the touch-enabled bulk switchpoint editor which is reached by selecting  Edit while viewing a schedule.

There are buttons for ± 10 minutes and buttons to assign ± 0.5° which apply to a whole week's worth of switchpoints at once. The bulk-modified schedule can be immediately uploaded to your Evotouch without first saving it as a preset, or just saved as an ABC entry for that zone. These buttons are only activated when an edit is actually made.

To drill down and cherry-pick particular setpoints to be modified, we have the  Selective button which, when chosen, dims all the setpoints in the grid, ready to be selected by tipping on them. Only selected cells react to subsequent presses of the ± 10 min and ± 0.5° buttons. When in selective mode, two new buttons are shown —  Unselect All can be used as a shortcut to deselecting the whole grid, while  Everything does the opposite and selects all cells. Otherwise, tapping an already-selected cell deselects it again individually.

As a visual aid to which cells were already modified in this session, the white background of any changed cell's time-value becomes crimson. You can keep cycling through select → modify → unselect → select-new → modify, etc. until all your desired edits are completed — you only need to choose save/upload when all your envisioned edits are finished.

While in selective mode, tapping a day-name selects/unselects a whole column representing a day's worth of SP's. Outside of selective mode the entire grid including headers is disabled for touch inputs.

Hitting the back arrow in the top-left corner of the screen will abandon the entire edit-session without saving it.

It's also possible to copy entire schedule blocks from zone to zone. Tap on a tile on the main dashboard to select the donor zone. Select  View and then choose either the Live scheule or any of the ABC-presets, as desired. Next, choose  More and then  Copy To. This will launch a zone-selector which looks like the Group-selector screen familiar from group-creation. When you have selected all the target zones, pressing  Finish will complete the cloning process.

The section on Schedule Comparison details how you can graphically compare your modified schedule to the other saved ABC presets. It's also possible to view the comparison for an entire week in grid form. To do that, select  View and then  More. Here you will see a button labelled  Compare. It will draw a grid with crimson highlighting of the differences, much like you see when editing a schedule using the bulk-editor.

Schedule Comparison

Graphical Depiction of Schedules

A picture paints a thousand words and a graph can sometimes convey more useful information than a grid. That's why each zone's ABC switchpoints can be plotted graphically alongside the current/live schedule for the zone.

While viewing a schedule, tapping on any of the cells in the header row of day-names draws a switchpoint comparison-graph for that day/zone. Note that this feature is disabled while editing a schedule because then that particular tap is reserved for selecting/deselecting a column of cells in the grid.

If any line-segments from the 4 different plots overlap each other, the last-drawn line-segment conceals any underlying one(s). For that reason, if the current/live schedule matches one of the presets (which will often be the case), a combined e.g. A/Live is drawn together with B and C and the separate Live is omitted. If you see multiple entries for Live/'…' it means that the saved data for 2 or more ABC presets is exactly the same.

If you tap on the caption text then the plot for that particular curve toggles opacity between 1.0 and 0.3 so that you can better compare overlapping portions of the 3/4 curves.

It's also possible to view the comparison for an entire week rather than a particular day. To do that, select  View and then  More. Here you will see a button labelled  Line-Chart.