Multiple Settings backup and restore

35 votes

I have a Neo system consisting of 10 devices - room and underfloor thermostats and timers for boiler and towel rails. As the seasons progress many settings have to be changed to suit that season. This generally happens over a few weeks until a suitable suite of settings is arrived at. In other words, summer settings are not the same as winter or spring.
At the moment the Neo software only allows one to create and save, from scratch, a new set of settings. With ten devices this would take a long time!
My suggestion is a ‘backup’ and ‘restore’ function that allows one to save a complete suite of settings - say ‘summer’ and be able to recall a complete previously saved suite - say ‘winter’. This would also allow one to save a trial suite of settings and to revert to another if unsuccessful.

Not planned Suggested by: Tim (03 Oct, '19) • Upvoted: 15 Mar • Comments: 8

Comments: 8

04 Oct, '19
Jit
I have this same exact issue.

I'm currently solving this by updating the settings programmically using the telnet API. Having this in the app would certainly make this much easier.
21 Oct, '19
Tim
A further comment from myself...
I note that my post has been tagged ‘not planned’. This is surprising as I would have thought that the ability to backup settings is the most fundamental of software functions for so many software controlled engineering systems.
Neo software developers - please reconsider this suggestion.
Feedback contributors - vote please!
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08 Nov, '19
Martin Admin
We would recommend using Recipes in this case.

You would create a series of Profiles for each area, so you could have "Summer Living Room", "Summer Bedrooms", "Summer Dining Room" etc.
Then, you could create a "Summer Recipe" that would activate "Summer Living Room", "Summer Bedrooms", "Summer Dining Room" profiles for the zones you select.
09 Nov, '19
Rob
This sounds straightforward to me and would be very simple to implement. Simply provide an option to save all current comfort levels etc as a profile rather than have to set up separately. Also allow a profile to include multiple zones amd include the zone settings.
09 Nov, '19
Rob
Also the profiles don't include zone settings. In the summer i want to set the floor to stay at a comfortable temp. In the winter air temp is the priority.
11 Nov, '19
Tim
Hello R&D,

Thanks for your suggestion, but I had already considered this and that’s when I was surprised to find there was no ‘use existing settings’ option. Hence my realisation that there was no ‘all settings’ backup or ‘copy all’ facility. Having ten devices would mean an awful lot of temperature and time settings to be re-entered (all settings differ from the default values so there’s no time saving there). However, thanks for your continued interest.
24 Feb, '20
AP
Consider the scenario where a large house is being let on short term basis. These are very popular esp. on coastal areas.
Or it could just be high end residential. Guest have tweaked the stats. We want to reset quickly/easily.

Implementation: This can be done server side. Backup to a known file name. One could store backups for Seasons for example. The app would manage the backup/restore.
Benefits: All existing users. Improved sales as large sites would fit multiple Neostats.
10 Mar, '21
Rob
I agree ! What I'd like is a for the app to snapshot the whole house as say a 'Winter settings' and then snapshot the whole house as a 'Summer settings' . Being able to export and externally save this overall setting would also be an excellent way to create some locally managed backup