Rooms
This article is for:
Polare App (iOS and Android)
A Room ( 
) is a single space within a Property ( 
). You can define any number of Rooms for your Property, and save them to be used in Profiles ( 
).
Why do we use Rooms?
For single device Controllers like the Polare Mini, your device will be in a single Room, so we need information about how to heat that room. For those Controllers, the Room is also the most obvious way to display the information you want about where your Controller is, and what it is doing.
Find out more about why we use Profiles to access information about your Property, Rooms and Devices
Types of Room
We allow for some basic types of Room, shown below. The type of Room is not very important, it is just for easy identification for you in our app. So you can rename each Room to whatever you wish if these options don't fit.
Basement
Bathroom
Bedroom
Garage
Home Office
Kitchen
Living Room / Family Room
Nursery
Room information
The dimensions, location and characteristics of the Room are important. We ask for the following information during Setup:
- Floor area. Length and width in meters - this affects thermodynamic calculations.
- Number of windows. This affects thermodynamic calculations.
- Number of windows that get regular sunlight. This affects heat gain into the room from the sun.
- External walls. The number of walls that are facing the outside of the building (the other side of the wall is outdoors) - this affects heat loss.
- Floor. Which floor of the house or building the room is on (ground floor, first floor, etc) - this affects heat loss and gain.
Rooms (My Properties)
View all Rooms in a Property
View the Rooms in a given Property by:
- Go to My Properties (
) > tap on the Property you want to view > you will see the Property Display page which shows all the Rooms you have saved in that Property
A Room that has an active Controller inside it will display as green.
Edit or view Room information
Tap on a Room to bring up options and information for that Room:
From this view you can:
- Edit the characteristics of the room - this will take you back to Setup for that Room, with the existing information prefilled. Save any changes you want to make.
- View Controller - if there is an active Controller in this room this will display green, tap on this to show any active Controller(s) in this room
- Delete Room - tap this to delete this Room
If you delete a Room, Property or Device that is part of a Profile, you will get a warning that it will disable that Profile and the Controller(s) using it.
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