Pentair Intellicenter firmware 3.002

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tns49 said:
Interesting App when I just opened it now says I am opted in for Automatic Firmware Update. Perhaps app only does this if you are on 3.002 in your Intellicenter? Mentions I can opt out somewhere in settings.
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Appears it's the combination of the 2, updating firmware to 3.002 and updating app to pentair pool opts you in to auto firmware updates. I just updated the android app from home to pool and upon opening got the you are opted In message
 
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I just updated via USB, it went smoothly. My guess is this firmware opens up OTA updates. Upon installing, my app even told me I was enrolled in automatic updates, and now I can check for updates in the app. I opted to turn off automatic, as I'd rather give it a few days/weeks before updating.

Despite the big warning to export your settings (which I did), all of my settings seemed to hold (schedules, freeze protection, etc).
 
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System was running fine. My Meraki APs said it was connected, but the Intellicenter it claimed no Ethernet connected (the Engenius bridge which is PoE powered off the panel). A simple panel reboot fixed it. I've seen this once before in the last 5 years where the external Wi-Fi bridge basically goes offline and a reboot is needed.
 
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System was running fine. My Meraki APs said it was connected, but the Intellicenter it claimed no Ethernet connected (the Engenius bridge which is PoE powered off the panel). A simple panel reboot fixed it. I've seen this once before in the last 5 years where the external Wi-Fi bridge basically goes offline and a reboot is needed.
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Seems to be a bug in the IntelliCenter internal web server where it stalls. It is not the Engenius bridge as I have had the same problem with both the Engenius and the 900MHZ link.
 
ajw22 said:
Seems to be a bug in the IntelliCenter internal web server where it stalls. It is not the Engenius bridge as I have had the same problem with both the Engenius and the 900MHZ link.
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Yeah, I wasnt clear what I wrote, but basically the ingenious was connected but the Intellicenter basically reported that the bridge wasn’t detected. When you reboot the panel, I believe it cycles the PoE on the Engenius. Either way, it’s happened like 2-3 times since I’ve owned the system.
 
I finally took the plunge and updated to 3.002 yesterday. Some comments below.

The multi expansion panel bug that reared its head in 2.026 is gone :)

Most of the other bugs that appeared in 2.006 and 2.017 appear to have been fixed.

Integration with Control4 via the official driver was a little scary and required two reboots of the IntelliCenter and one reboot of Control4 to start working properly but has been rock solid for 24 hours now.

I haven’t tested multiple IntelliBrite lights yet to see if the problems (with large numbers of such lights over multiple panels) from v1 and v2 are still present as I converted these to generic lights in Pentair a few weeks ago (as reported elsewhere) and moved the colour control from Pentair to Control4 to get stability.
 
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Looks like freeze protection is still stupid. It appears to have burned out my waterfall pump. The system will cycle on and off for freeze no freeze when the temperature on the panel switches from 35 to 36 and back. What moron decided to not have some sort of 30m delay to turn the pump off and average the temperature is beyond me.
 
Interesting, WinManx. Something similar must have happened to me-- my pool equipment is right behind my bed on the opposite of the exterior wall. I wokeup to some funky noises coming from my pool equipment. Loud humming. stop. loud humming. stop. I picked up my phone and had an alert from pentair saying my pump is over voltage and to call an electrician or pool pro or something like that. My first thought was it was unable to prime for some weird reason (based on the on, off, on off). There's no reason that pump would lose prime unless it developed a leak overnight. I do have that pump set to "never prime". So what I did in the app was turn on the high speed function for max RPM (to prime, in case it lost prime). Everything seems fine since then. I got another message from pentair saying the fault has been cleared. Same temperature as yours 35, 36, 35, 37.

I still have no idea what really happened, though.
 
WinManx2000 said:
Looks like freeze protection is still stupid. It appears to have burned out my waterfall pump. The system will cycle on and off for freeze no freeze when the temperature on the panel switches from 35 to 36 and back. What moron decided to not have some sort of 30m delay to turn the pump off and average the temperature is beyond me.
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Tell Pentair Support
 
WinManx2000 said:
Why? Its literally been brought up to them many times. It was also part of that big summit someone had here with them. They don't give a Darn.
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The more customers complain the higher it may get on the priority list.
 
ajw22 said:
The more customers complain the higher it may get on the priority list.
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Pentair Priority List Today.

Number...............Issue.

1,027,563...........Buggy Software.
________________________________________________

Pentair Priority List Tomorrow.

Number...............Issue.

1,027,562...........Buggy Software.

Moved up one whole point.

:goodjob:
 
JamesW said:
Pentair Priority List Today.

Number...............Issue.

1,027,563...........Buggy Software.
________________________________________________

Pentair Priority List Tomorrow.

Number...............Issue.

1,027,562...........Buggy Software.

Moved up one whole point.

:goodjob:
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Bugs are when a feature is not functioning as specified.

Implementing a temperature delta for freeze protection is a new feature request.

Pentair designers were simpleminded when they specified how Freeze Protection should work.

Pentair designers do not appear to own and maintain pools and use their own products. If they did the short comings should be obvious to them as it is to their customers.
 
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ajw22 said:
Implementing a temperature delta for freeze protection is a new feature request.
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Found it.

Pentair Priority List Today.

Number...............Issue...........Estimated Date of Action: December 23, 2032 Thursday.

3,760,114...........Add a temperature delta for freeze protection.
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Pentair Priority List Tomorrow.

Number...............Issue..........Estimated Date of Action: December 22, 2032 Wednesday

3,760,113...........Add a temperature delta for freeze protection..

Moved up one whole point and one day.

:goodjob:
 
JamesW said:
Found it.

Pentair Priority List Today.

Number...............Issue...........Estimated Date of Action: December 23, 2032 Thursday.

3,760,114...........Add a temperature delta for freeze protection.
________________________________________________

Pentair Priority List Tomorrow.

Number...............Issue..........Estimated Date of Action: December 22, 2032 Wednesday

3,760,113...........Add a temperature delta for freeze protection..

Moved up one whole point and one day.

:goodjob:
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Progress is measured by those small steps in the right direction.
 
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