QuickApp for Nilan Heat Pump with CTS 700 board

Requirements

  1. A Nilan Heat pump with
    • CTS 700 board
    • a modbus RTU to TCP gateway (maybe already built-in)
    • firmware version being at least 2.3.11.26
  2. A Fibaro Home Center version 3 or greater.
  3. Connecting all the above to the same network so that they can see each other.

Installation

  1. Download QuickApp from here.

  2. Log into your Home Center as Admin.

  3. Install the QuickApp:

    a) Go to Settings -> Devices -> Add device b) Choose “Other Device” c) Upload Nilan_Heat_Pump.fqax file.

  4. Now you can see the installed Quickapp in your device list

  5. Set the corresponding QuickApp variables to the host IP and port number of your Nilan machine. (The Heat Pump must be accessible from the Home Center.)

    a) Variables -> Edit host b) Set value c) You have to save the updated variables

  6. Go to the Preview tab an check if the connection between the Home Center and the Nilan Heat Pump estabilished correctly. If so, you can see informations retrieved from your Heat Pump. The most important informations are

    a) The Software version that must be at least 2.3.11.26. If your version is lower than this, please request a software update from Nilan support.

    b) The MAC address, which is essential information to request a license key for QuickApp, as the key will be linked to this MAC address.

  7. If (and only if) you can see the right informations in the preview tab, the configuration was successful and you can proceed to the next sections.

Licensing

To access the full range of QuickApp features, you need to request a license key as described here.

User Interface

With the correct license key, the full functionality of QuickApp is available. For more information on how to use the ChildApps created, click here.

Using in Scenes

If you want to use this QuickApp in Scenes, this might be useful reading.