QuickApp for Nilan CTS602

Connecting CTS602 to LAN

Although we recommend that you hire a professional to set up the hardware connection, you can of course do it yourself by following the instructions below. For specific configurations other than those described here, please refer to the documents on the Nilan website. Do not hesitate to contact me in a comment or by e-mail if you encounter any problems or you have managed to configure your device in a different way to the one described here, or if you need clarification or additional information. I will try to keep this page up-to-date with new information.

Monday, September 16, 2024 | 4 minutes Read

CTS602 Quick Start

Requirements A Nilan Heat pump with CTS 602 board firmware version being at least 1.2.6.0 A correctly installed and configured RS485-TCP Gateway described here A Fibaro Home Center 3 with software version 5.170.16 or greater. Connecting all the above to the same network so that they can see each other. Installation Download QuickApp from here. Log into your Home Center as Admin.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 | 2 minutes Read

How to use in scenes

All values that are shown or can be modified via the QuickApp are also available externally, for example from a scene. The values can be retrieved with the help of the json object published and periodically updated in the QuickApp’s values variable, while they can be written by calling the set_value() function of the QuickApp with the appropriate parameters. The QuickApp also publishes its own ID in a global variable. You can set the name of this global variable in the QuickApp variable called app_name, e.g.:

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 | 3 minutes Read

Licensing

The license key costs €300, but is now available at an introductory price of €150 until the 50% discount is withdrawn. Prerequisites Connect your HomeCenter and your Nilan machine. Download QuickApp from here and install it. Configure it correctly as described here If you use multiple instances of this app on the same HomeCenter, you have to change app_name variable to be unique. Request License key For this you will need your billing information (e.g. name & address) and some data from the App main screen:

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 | 2 minutes Read

User Interface

Assuming that the correct license key has been successfully specified as the value of the corresponding variable in the QuickApp, 8 childApps have now been created under the original main QuickApp User levels You may have noticed that some device names are suffixed with Guest, User or Admin. This indicates which of the three user levels is recommended for the given QuickApp. Based on these, you can decide which users you give which intervention options, that is, which QuickApps will be visible to which users. Each level (Guest, User and Admin) gives increasing privileges, so everything is available at higher levels that was available at lower levels. Therefore, for example, in a single user configuration, the Admin level is sufficient, the others can be hidden.

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 | 2 minutes Read

Variables

API - variables Coming soon …

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 | 1 minute Read