Turning the Genius Hub off in the Summer

As the Summer is heating up, you may not want to use your heating as much. If you are using the Genius Hub for controlling your hot water then you will obviously want to keep your Genius Hub plugged in during the summer, and you can turn off all of the rooms on the app which you do not want to be heated during the summer.

To turn off the rooms you are not using, the easiest way is:

Go to the ‘My House’ page by clicking on the house icon at the top left of the app.
In the bottom bar, click on ‘Turn Off’
- This will turn all of the Radiator, Underfloor Heating and Hot Water Temperature zones off.
- If you want to keep the Hot Water Temperature zone on, just navigate to the zone and change the mode to Timer
At the end of the Summer, just click ‘Restore’ from the ‘My House’ page for all of your zones to revert to their state before the Summer with their schedules ready to go.

Important If you turn off (or unplug) your Genius Hub itself, all of the devices in your home (Genius Radiator Valves, Room Sensors, Genius Room Thermostats etc.) will then start to look for the Genius Hub and will not be able to find it. They will waste their battery power looking for the Genius Hub and this will mean that you will most likely have to replace their batteries when you come to use the heating again in the autumn. The Genius Radiator Valves also exercise the radiator valve bodies once a week to reduce the chance of the pin seizing. If the pin in the valve body is seized, this could lead to either the radiator valve leaking water when it begins to free up or the valve body is needing to be replaced.

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If you have a Genius Room Sensor that is not being used in a zone to control heating, you can use it to control the Smart Plugs. The Genius Hub system is primarily a heating control system, so there can be a delay of a number of seconds before the Smart Plug responds (about 2 – 30 seconds generally), this is acceptable for heating but note that this may not be acceptable for lighting.

Step-by-step guide:

Create a new zone on the app which is a ‘On / Off’ type of zone
Go to the Zone Setup and assign the Genius Smart Plug and Genius Room Sensor
Set the ‘Heating Trigger On After’ to 0 minutes
Set the ‘Heating Trigger Off After’ to as long as you want the Smart Plug to stay on for
Leave the setup pages, and change the mode to ‘Sense Mode’ See here how to enable Sense Mode on your Genius Hub
- Set up the times of the day where you want it to turn ‘ON’ when there is occupancy, the rest of the time it will ignore occupancy
- Remember to turn on ‘React to Occupancy’ when setting up the times

Interesting Information You cannot assign the Genius Room Sensor to the new room if it is already assigned to a room, but you can share its attributes (channels) of it in a second room if you wish. To assign the 'Occupancy' of a Room Sensor into another room, see this article about how to 'Assign a channel' - (https://docs.geniushub.co.uk/x/XQvN) which is at the bottom of the Adding New Devices page.

Turning the Genius Hub off in the Summer

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