ALCON,
I have copy/pasted all of your comments into a word doc and will print and deliver a copy to each visitor so we can reference those comments and key-in on the various points for discussion.
If there are any more comments posted here prior to next week, I will be sure to add those as well. After the meeting, I'll attempt to post any feedback/comments received during the meeting.
After digesting all of the comments posted here, below are my comments that do not duplicate the above comments.
1. iOS App: The iOS app has been greatly improved over the last 6 months or so..
2. System Configuration: Air Sensor Calibration cannot be set above 104 degrees F. on the Web-Client or 100 degrees F. on the iOS app.
This is a big problem for those of us that live in the desert and attempt to calibrate air temp sensors in the summer.
3. Web Client: Schedules on the Home page or in the Settings > Schedules menu, some circuit groups show up as “SPECIALCIRC X".
This also occurs within the iOS app but NOT at the OCP. The Circuit Groups (macros) that the schedules are tied to show up just fine at the OCP.
In addition, when attempting to open those schedules in the web client for editing, the schedule will open and then immediately close again. This problem is intermittent and cannot always be replicated. In the iOS app, when attempting to open these “SPECIALCIRC X" Circuit groups, the page is just blank.
4. Web Client: Saving changes within the Web-Client does not work in "Real-Time".
Everytime I attempt to create or modify a Feature Circuit, Circuit Group (macro) or sometimes a schedule and click SAVE, in the Web app, the change will not appear in real-time. If I redo it, then it will create a duplicate on the second go-around and then the web app seems to get “confused”. Most times, you have to exit the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION page first by clicking on the HOME button and then navigate back to the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION page to see what happened. In other words, the Web App does not update the user's additions or changes to the configurations in "REAL-TIME". It is very frustrating to have to continually exit the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION page and then come back to the SYSTEM CONFIGURATION page to see the changes made by the user was actually saved or not.
5. Web Client, iOS app, OCP. Inability to SORT Schedules, Aux Circuits, Feature Circuits, Circuit Groups, Pumps and Circuits listed on the Pump Page and Lights in the Web-Client and iOS app.
This issue is very frustrating to the user. The user should be able to sort these items based on any normal criterion (i.e., common use, or by time-of-day, or by any other criteria the user might want to define. Just a simple "drag and drop" or a sort criteria drop down menu would work.
6. Web Client: When a FEATURE CIRCUIT(S) is deleted from a CIRCUIT GROUP and then is attempted to be "re-selected", the FEATURE CIRCUIT(S) are then not available to be "re-selected".
When a user makes deletions in a CIRCUIT GROUP because he wants to rearrange the FEATURE CIRCUITS within the CIRCUIT GROUP, those FEATURE CIRCUITS are no longer available in the ADD CIRCUIT > Select A Circuit pull-down menu for "re-selection", even after SAVE is clicked. The user has to SAVE, completely exit SETTINGS and then navigate back to SETTINGS > SYSTEM CONFIGURATION > CIRCUITS > CIRCUIT GROUPS > {CIRCUIT GROUP that was being worked on} in order for those FEATURE CIRCUITS to then be available for selection in the pull-down menu.
7. Web Client: No “CIRCUITS GROUPS” on the “HOME” page.
When you click the HOME tab, it only lists the individual FEATURE CIRCUITS and not the CIRCUIT GROUPS (macros). Hence, you cannot activate a CIRCUIT GROUP from the web application HOME PAGE. NO, instead you have to click each and every individual FEATURE CIRCUIT that you want activated “separately” if you want to activate them from the Web Application HOME PAGE. HOWEVER, if you go to the FEATURES > GROUPS tab in the iOS app or use the Outdoor Control Panel, you CAN select or activate a CIRCUITS GROUP from the FEATURES tab.
8. Web Client: A flame is indicated rather than a snowflake when in UltraTemp Chiller mode.
User reports the following: Testing out the chiller on my UltraTemp and the IntelliCenter web and app shows a flame when cooling while the panel shows the snowflake.
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System Settings: The Valve Delay feature does not work for all valve actuators.
Some valve actuators have not completed their set "assignment" (rotation) before the Pump Circuit is activated during POOL/SPA mode switchover or other CIRCUIT GROUP configurations as well. This problem seems to only affect all other valves except the INTAKE and RETURN valve actuators.
10. Web Client: Local Access - There is no ability to access my IntelliCenter Control Panel “locally” when using the Web Client as can be done with the mobile apps.
I have attempted to access my IntelliCenter Control panel locally utilizing both its IP address and using a program that will utilize its mac address from my desktop. I have tried both http: and https: It DOES NOT work. I can access just about every other device I own, that utilizes user-defined configurations, locally (by IP address). And get this. All the while, I CAN access my IntelliCenter control panel locally through the iOS app, (which uses the IP address assigned to the IntelliCenter Control Panel) The iOS app will actually give you the option of accessing it locally or though the Pentair portal.
11. Web Client. iOS App, OCP: No method to suspend a schedule when a user has another temporary FEATURE CIRCUIT or CIRCUIT GROUP running or activated.
SUSPEND SCHEDULE BUTTON. There is no option to suspend any upcoming schedules. This is a problem when using any other FEATURE CIRCUIT or CIRCUIT GROUP and then the schedule kicks in (i.e. using the spa, using a water feature etc.). I recommend that a “SUSPEND SCHEDULE BUTTON” or whatever name Pentair comes up with, be programmed in to the Web Interface app, the iOS app and the control panel. I know this can be done because I have this feature available to me on my HUNTER “Hydrawise” Irrigation automation system. This automation system allows for the temporary suspension of a scheduled program from it's control panel, web app and their iOS app.
12. Web Client: Firmware update (OTA) release notes are not shown anywhere on the Web Interface app.
This is just a recommendation. It would be extremely helpful to be able to see and read the release notes (and not just JIRA numbers) in the Web-Client and/or the iOS app.
13. Web Client. iOS App, OCP: No method to create a FEATURE CIRCUIT "Delay" function.
An ability to create a user-definable "Delay" FEATURE CIRCUIT would be very helpful. This delay FEATURE CIRCUIT could then be imbedded within a CIRCUIT GROUP (macro). This would allow for ALL valves to complete their entire rotation prior to a pump being energized. The "Delay" FEATURE CIRCUIT time would be "user-definable" i.e. 1, 2 minutes.
Note: It should be noted that the majority of my issues listed above do NOT present themselves or do not occur within my
nodejs-poolController /
dashPanel apps. One of the many reasons that I utilize those and do not rely on the IntelliCenter Web Client for my desktop use. Even so, all of the issues noted in this entire thread should still be fixed.
Thanks again for all of the participation here. Hopefully, some good will come from all of this.
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. I admitted to having a bit of (parody) fun at Pentair's expense and we all had a good chuckle. I demo'd a few things on the Load Center touch-screen, as well as the iOS app and we had a productive set of discussions there. They asked lots of questions the whole time, took lots of notes and yes they asked about my REM-Chem setup. I basically explained that it was a home-made "IntelliChem" of sorts on some serious / extreme steroids. 
